http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2309/pg1Cheney "had better things to do" ASCENT TO POWER
JANUARY 30, 1941:
Richard B. Cheney is born in Lincoln, Nebraska.
1950´s:
Cheney attends high school in Casper, Wyoming. He becomes football captain, top 10 student and meets his future wife, homecoming Queen, Lynne Vincent.
1959
Cheney, a Yale student, turns 18 and becomes eligible for the draft.
1960
JUNE 14:Cheney drops out of Yale, returns to Wyoming and takes a job with the local power company.
1962
FEBRUARY: Cheney was classified as 1-A, available for military service.
NOVEMBER 19:
Cheney is arrested for drunk driving. (see the police court docket )1963
MARCH 20:
Cheney applies for his first student draft deferment.JULY 23:
Cheney applies for his second draft deferment after enrolling at the University of Wyoming.1964
OCTOBER 14:
Cheney applies for his third student draft deferment. By now the Vietnam war has escalated following the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
Cheney marries his high school sweetheart, Lynne.
1965
NOVEMBER 1:
Cheney gets his fourth draft deferment.Cheney graduates and is once more listed as 1-A, ready for military service.
1966
JANUARY 19: When his wife was about 10 weeks pregnant, Cheney applies for 3-A status, the ´´hardship´´ exemption, which excludes men with children or dependent parents. It is granted.
1967
JANUARY: Cheney turns 26 and is no longer eligible for the draft.
1968
Cheney wins a congressional scholarship with Wyoming Republican congressman William Steiger and goes to Washington. Cheney travels to campuses to report on scenes of violent student unrest.
1969
Cheney goes to work for Donald Rumsfeld as his special assistant at the Office of Economic Opportunity.
1974
AUGUST: Cheney joins Gerald Ford’s presidential transition team when President Nixon resigns.
1975
NOVEMBER: Cheney becomes Assistant to President Ford and Chief of Staff.
1978
JUNE 18: Cheney suffers his first heart attack.
Cheney is elected as a congressman from Wyoming.
1981
Cheney becomes Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee from 1981, a position he holds until 1987.
1986
Cheney votes against a House resolution calling for the release of Nelson Mandela and the recognition of the ANC.
1988
Cheney is elected House minority whip.
Cheney undergoes quadruple by-pass surgery to clear clogged arteries.
THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
1989
MARCH: Cheney becomes Secretary of Defense when President George H.W. Bush’s first choice, John Tower, is rejected by the Senate for personal misconduct.
Cheney, when asked why he sought draft deferments during the Vietnam war said "I had other priorities in the ´60s than military service."