In My Time - Dick Cheney [302]
Greenspan’s July Fourth party in, 259–60
handguns in, 494–96
9/11 and, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 329–30
Obama’s inauguration in, 517–18
Washington Post, 66, 105, 196, 260, 266, 313, 329, 366, 400, 407, 456, 495
Cheney’s Defense Department tenure and, 163–64
North Korean nuclear program and, 488–89
Watergate scandal, 62, 64–66, 69, 72, 77, 82, 86, 103
comparisons between Iran-Contra and, 144–45, 147
and elections of 1974, 130–31
Waxman, Henry, 317
weapons of mass destruction (WMD), 383–86, 420
and authorizing use of force against Iraq, 391–93
Cheney’s task force on, 318–19
intelligence failures on, 413, 417
Iraqi acquisition and use of, 182, 184, 206, 214, 220–21, 225–27, 364–70, 373–74, 377, 380, 383, 388–96, 402–3, 411–14, 417–18, 469–70, 472, 479
Iraqi Freedom and, 370, 383, 432
Iraqi inspections and, 388–94
proliferation of, 236, 318, 374
search in Iraq for, 411–13
terrorists and, 225, 319, 330, 333, 344–45, 369, 374, 384–86, 388, 414, 418, 468–70, 473, 487, 491 see also biological weapons; chemical weapons; nuclear weapons
Wednesday Group, 128
Weicker, Lowell, 277
Weinberger, Caspar, 150, 409–10
Welch, Larry, 163–64, 199
Westerfield, H. Bradford, 27
Western Excursion, 200, 203
“What I Didn’t Find in Africa” (Wilson), 403–4
Whip Inflation Now (WIN), 76–77
White House:
botulinum attack on, 341–43
Bushes’ tour of, 515
Cheney’s undisclosed locations and, 337
Grand Review of the Armies at, 13
on Inauguration Day, 302, 304
intruder on grounds of, 96
9/11 and, 1–10, 300, 333
Supreme Court honored at, 515–16
Whittington, Harry, 250–52
Wilkins, Edness Kimball, 118
Willeford, Pam, 250
Williams, Brenda, 62–63
Williams, Pete, 127, 163, 175, 297, 531
Cheney’s vice presidential candidacy and, 264–65
Desert Storm and, 212–13
Williamsburg, Va., 85–86, 129
Wilson, Joe, 403–8
Wilson, Woodrow, 103, 321
Wisconsin, 26, 34–35, 41, 44, 122, 156, 287, 425
Wisconsin, University of, 34
Cheney’s enrollment at, 36–42, 45, 49
student protests at, 36–37, 45–47
Witt, James Lee, 281
Witzenburger, Ed, 115, 123
Woerner, Fred, 169–70
Wolfowitz, Paul, 162, 175, 190, 233, 252, 290, 334, 382, 441, 531
base force concept and, 234–35
Cheney’s vice presidential campaign and, 278, 282
and Iraqi threat to Israel, 211, 216
Western Excursion and, 200, 203
Woodward, Bob, 260, 407
World Trade Center:
1993 bombing of, 319, 367, 419
9/11 and, 2, 5, 10, 329, 333, 342
World War I, 149, 159, 227
World War II, 17, 27, 31, 55, 170, 172, 204–5, 212, 214, 227, 234, 247, 301, 356, 374, 469, 496
Cheney’s childhood and, 11–12, 20
Wyoming, 12, 28, 31–34, 66, 240–41, 247, 299, 305, 374, 387, 427, 447, 460, 464, 507, 509, 524–25
Cheney’s congressional campaigns and, 113–24, 127, 138–39, 276
Cheney’s congressional career and, 125–27, 158, 246
Cheney’s elective office ambitions and, 111–12, 120
Cheney’s internship in, 33–34
Cheney’s life in, 20–26, 40, 532
Cheney’s undisclosed location in, 337
Cheney’s vice presidential campaign and, 278–80
Cheney’s vice presidential candidacy and, 264–65
Iraqi Freedom and, 369, 386, 439
politics in, 111–12, 114–15
Wyoming, University of, 24, 39, 112–13, 241, 261, 452
Cheney’s enrollment at, 31–34, 113, 119, 126
Wyoming Wilderness Act, 125, 151
Yale University, 30, 34
Cheney’s enrollment at, 26–28, 154, 156–57, 263
Yasin, Abdul Rahman, 367
Yazov, Dmitri, 172, 201, 230
Yeltsin, Boris, 202, 230–31
Yemen, 195, 330, 372, 375–76
Yushchenko, Viktor, 428
Zarqawi, Abu Musab al, 344, 368, 393, 434–36, 501
Zawahiri, Ayman, 414
Zinni, Anthony, 375, 378–79
Zubaydah, Abu, 357–58, 500
Table of Contents
Cover
Description
Back Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Prologue: 9/11
Chapter One: Beginnings
Chapter Two: Anybody Here Named Cheney?
Chapter Three: Backseat
Chapter Four: The Gentleman from Wyoming
Chapter Five: Mr. Secretary
Chapter Six: Desert Shield
Chapter Seven: Desert Storm
Chapter Eight: Out of the Arena
Chapter Nine: Big Time
Chapter Ten: Angler
Chapter Eleven: A Nation at War
Chapter Twelve: Liberating