Former VP Dick Cheney was born in Nebraska on this day in 1941. He later moved to Wyoming where he went to college and entered politics.
Cheney was White House Chief of Staff for President Ford, 1975-77.
In 1978, Cheney was elected to the House and reelected five times,
President Bush nominated him for Secretary of Defense and oversaw the 1991 Operation Desert Storm.
In 2000, he was elected VP under the second President Bush. He was a critical national security player in the Bush administration.
In all, he served four US presidents, from Nixon to Ford to Bush to Bush.
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