by Dick Cheney
Somalia, 243, 419
Souter, David, 322
South Ossetia, 513
Soviet Union, 37, 144, 148, 205, 214, 228–36, 398, 417
Afghanistan and, 142, 201, 346–47, 427, 496
arms control and, 233–34, 324–25, 491
and attempted coup against Gorbachev, 172, 201, 229–31
Cheney’s congressional career and, 129, 142
Cheney’s Defense Department tenure and, 160, 166–67, 172, 181
Cheney’s trips to, 172, 200–202
collapse of, 129–30, 155, 180, 184, 202, 218, 231–33, 311, 325, 513
Ford’s presidential campaign and, 104–6
Helsinki Accords and, 86–87, 104
U.S.-Iraqi cease-fire and, 217–18, 221 see also Russia
Spann, Johnny Micheal, 354
special operations forces, 160, 169, 217, 400, 411, 435, 445, 450, 463–64, 523
Afghanistan and, 337, 340, 344–47, 370
Speicher, Will, 530
Spencer, Stu, 138, 244
Ford’s presidential campaign and, 89, 96, 99, 105–6
State Department, U.S., 3, 54, 68, 84, 183, 195, 216, 225, 235, 270–71, 291, 298–99, 321, 325, 355, 407, 441–42, 468
Desert Storm and, 218, 228
and disappointment with Powell, 381–82, 408, 425–26
Ford administration changes and, 89–91
Iraqi Freedom and, 370, 387
Israeli-Palestinian crisis and, 378, 380–81
North Korean nuclear program and, 474–77, 479, 481–88, 490–93
Steen, Jim, 127, 163, 529
Steiger, Bill, 122, 127, 156
Cheney’s congressional career and, 126, 130
Cheney’s fellowship and, 41–45, 48
Stennis, U.S.S., 376
Stevens, John Paul, 87–88, 322, 516
Stiner, Carl, 178
Stones River, Battle of, 13–14
Stroock, Tom, 26, 154
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 46–47
Stump, Bob, 142
Sullivan, Mike, 299
Sultan, Prince, 190, 192, 194–95
Sumner, Neb., 12, 14–17, 43
Sunnis, 434, 436, 440, 442, 451, 458
Sununu, John, 205, 237–38, 517
Cheney’s Defense Department nomination and, 152–53, 155, 157
Supreme Court, Fla., 292, 294
Supreme Court, U.S., 318, 495–96
Bush’s nominees to, 322–24, 516
on enhanced interrogation techniques, 360–61
on military commissions, 356–57
Stevens’s appointment to, 87–88, 322
2000 election results and, 294, 296–98
White House dinner for, 515–16
Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape Program, 358
Syracuse Bluebirds, 16, 243
Syria, 379, 437, 447
Israeli-Palestinian crisis and, 479–80
nuclear program of, 465–73, 476, 482, 484, 487, 491–93
Taft, Will, 164
Tal Afar, 440–41
Taliban, 415
Afghanistan and, 332, 334, 340, 344–47, 363, 418–19, 470, 480, 497–502
capture, imprisonment, and interrogation of, 354–55
overthrow of, 345–47, 363, 419, 471, 497
Pakistan and, 480, 498–500
Tanzania, 329–30, 419
taxes, taxpayers, 62, 77, 256–57, 261, 394, 409
cutting of, 78–79, 298, 308–13, 328, 494, 502
deficits and, 310–11
financial crisis and, 507, 510
Teeter, Bob, 138, 140, 244, 248
Cheney’s congressional campaigns and, 114, 120–21
Ford’s presidential campaign and, 96, 100–101, 104
Tenet, George, 299, 406, 413–16
Afghanistan and, 332, 340, 368, 370
on al Qaeda in Iraq, 368, 414–15
Iraqi Freedom and, 370, 386, 398
Iraqi uranium acquisition and, 403–5
Iraqi WMD and, 368, 392, 395–96
9/11 and, 415
Terrorist Surveillance Program and, 348–49
terHorst, Jerald, 69
terrorists, terrorism, 149–50, 438
Afghanistan and, 334, 340, 344, 347, 363, 368, 418, 427, 501–2
Blair on, 372–73
Bush Doctrine and, 9, 415, 419, 485, 488
capture, imprisonment, interrogation, and killing of, 341, 344, 353–55, 357–63, 419, 435–36, 500–501, 512, 520–24
Geneva Conventions and, 354–55, 361
Iran-Contra affair and, 143–44
Iraq and, 225–26, 344, 367–69, 372, 377, 380, 388, 392–93, 396, 414–15, 418, 433–37, 450, 455, 458, 463–64, 501
Israeli-Palestinian crisis and, 367–68, 373, 378–81, 384
North Korea and, 475, 482, 484, 486–88
prevention of, 333–35, 348, 352–53, 357–59, 361–63, 369, 376–77, 405, 413, 419–20, 522–23
training of, 334, 340, 347, 368, 414, 418, 501
war on, 10, 330–32, 334–36, 339, 344–45, 354–55, 361–62, 372–76, 380–81, 388, 417–18, 434, 454, 492, 500–502, 511, 515, 519, 523
WMD and, 225, 319, 330, 333, 344–45, 369, 374, 384–86, 388, 414, 418, 468–70, 473, 487, 491 see also al Qaeda; 9/11
Terrorist Surveillance Program, 348–53, 363, 512
Texas, 61–62, 91, 95–96, 101, 103, 131, 134, 238, 262–64, 281, 292–93, 302, 508–9, 519
Bush’s governorship of, 252, 263–64, 282, 289
Bush’s presidential campaign and, 252, 254, 263–64, 282
Cheney’s hunting in, 243, 249–52
Cheney’s vice presidential candidacy and, 254, 263–64
Halliburton and, 248–49
Thatcher, Margaret, 19, 200
Thomas, Bill, 130–31, 503
Cheney’s Capitol offices and, 306–7
tax cuts and, 311–13
Thomson, Bill and Toni, 116
Thomson, Meldrim, 95
Thorsness, Leo, 359–60
Thurman, Max, 169–70, 176
Together Forward, Operations, 438–39
Tower, John, 152–53, 156, 162
Trading with the Enemy Act, 475, 482, 486
Treasury Department, U.S., 63, 78, 228, 273, 291, 339, 382, 475
financial crisis and, 503–4, 506–7, 510
O’Neill’s appointment to, 298–99
O’Neill’s departure from, 394–95
Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), 507–10
Truman, Harry, 55, 79, 304
Tuchman, Barbara, 148–49
Tula, Cheney’s trip to, 201–2
Turkey, 188, 224, 379, 501
Turner, John and Mary Kay, 284, 525
Tydings, Joe, 37–38
Ukraine, 180, 231–32, 428, 513
unions, 28, 56, 60, 280–81
United Airlines Flight 93, 4–5, 333
United Arab Emirates (UAE), 182–83, 194–95, 376–77
United Nations, 85–86, 273, 358, 380, 475
Afghanistan and, 346, 426
Desert Storm and, 208, 217, 222, 225–26
Iraqi inspections and, 371, 388–90, 392–94, 403, 412
and Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, 137, 205, 207–8
Iraqi resolutions of, 137, 205, 208, 217, 225–26, 364–65, 367, 373, 376, 389–91, 393–95, 397–98, 415
Iraqi sanctions and, 225–26, 365, 371
Iraqi WMD programs and, 364–65, 373, 391–92, 396
Syrian nuclear program and, 471–72
U.S.-Iraqi cease-fire and, 217, 222
uranium:
Iranian nuclear program and, 470, 478
Iraqi acquisition of, 402–7
North Korean nuclear program and, 467, 470, 473, 476–77, 482–86, 489, 493
V-22s, 165–66
Van Cleve, George, 127, 145
Vander Jagt, Guy, 134–35
Vesser, Dale, 200, 235
Veterans of F
oreign Wars, 389–90
Vice President’s Residence, 314, 323, 326–27, 337, 339, 440, 443, 462, 516
Fords honored at, 327
Hu’s U.S. visit and, 382–83
Vietnam, Vietnam War, 35–37, 81–84, 134, 146–47, 160, 162, 166, 175–77, 206, 219, 301, 416, 447, 497
casualties in, 210
comparisons between Iraq and, 226, 438
end of, 82–83, 91
Ford and, 75, 81–83, 91
media and, 20, 176–77, 213
Nixon and, 35, 53, 59, 82, 84
opposition to, 36–37, 82, 176–77, 185
peace negotiations in, 81–82, 84
prisoners in, 359–60
Tet Offensive in, 47, 176–77
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 210
Vincent, Mark (brother-in-law), 33, 113, 532
Voinovich, George, 311, 313
Vourlekis, Jason, 532
Walker, John Anthony, 142
Walsh, Lawrence, 409–10
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 446, 459
War Powers Act, 146–47
Washington, D.C.:
British attack on, 10
Cheney’s undisclosed locations and, 337
Cheney’s vice presidential inauguration in, 302–3
demonstrations and riots in, 40, 53–54, 517–18
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