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...Cheney's clout only deepened after 9/11. In most cases, Bush was fully on board with Cheney's approach, particularly in the first term, as the war on terrorism took shape. But as the drawbacks of Cheney's vision became manifest overseas and at home, the President began to side with other views. By the end of Bush's second term, Cheney's influence had been greatly curtailed...
...will be months and probably years before the full scope of Cheney's power - where it started and stopped - will be fully understood. Many Bush critics have traced the biggest failures of the Bush presidency - like the obsession with weapons of mass destruction as a reason to invade Iraq - to the office of the Vice President. But Cheney leaves Washington as the most powerful Vice President in decades, perhaps ever...
...Cheney is also one of the least popular Vice Presidents ever. A New York Times/CBS News poll gave Bush a final 22% favorability rating, which was nearly twice that of his Vice President, whose approval rating stood at an anemic...
...while Cheney will leave the Vice President's quarters at the Naval Observatory in Washington, he isn't going very far away: Cheney will move to a house in McLean, Va., that he and his wife have just finished building (by design, it is within a few miles of both sets of grandchildren). He is expected to write a book that draws on what one adviser described as "his 40 years of experience" in Washington; it will almost certainly, the source said, be an extended reflection on the appropriate exercise of power in times of peace...
...Richard Cheney turns 68 next week...