Dick Cheney’s vice presidency

A look back at Cheney’s political career. The former vice president has suffered five heart attacks since his late 30s. He underwent a heart transplant Saturday after more than 20 months on a transplant list, according to his office.

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White House Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld, right, and his deputy, Richard Cheney, meet with reporters in the White House in this 1975, file photo. During the news conference, Rumsfeld was named by President Gerald Ford to replace James Schlesinger, secretary of Defense and Cheney succeeded Rumsfeld as White House Chief of Staff.

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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, right, speaks to President George W. Bush by phone inside the operations center at the White House as staff members, including Presidential Counselor Karen Hughes, left, and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, center, look on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.

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President George W. Bush addresses Congress during his 2003 State of the Union speech, with Cheney at left.

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CIA Director George Tenet, left, meets with President Bush and Vice President Cheney, foreground, in the Oval Office in 2003, before Tenet’s resignation for his agency's intelligence lapses in Iraq.

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Vice President Dick Cheney, left, gestures as he walks with Secretary of State Colin Powell, right, following the conclusion of the joint press conference between President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2003.

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Cheney embraces his wife, Lynne, at the Republican National Convention in 2004.

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Vice President Dick Cheney takes the oath for his second term in office from House Speaker Dennis Hastert, right, at inaugural ceremonies in 2005. Cheney's wife Lynn, second from left, daughters Mary, third from left, and Liz, second from right, watch. Behind them stands President George W. Bush right and Sen. Trent Lott.

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President Bush, with Cheney at his right, speaks after a Homeland Security briefing regarding the Silberman-Robb Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission Report in 2005, in the Situation Room of the White House.

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Cheney, right, and senior White House staff members — from right, Deputy Chief of Staff Harriet Miers, Chief of Staff to the Vice President Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Counselor to the President Dan Bartlett and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove — are seen in the Rose Garden of the White House 2005, before Libby’s indictment for obstruction of justice and perjury in the CIA leak case.

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Cheney hunts pheasant in South Dakota in this 2002 file photo. In 2006, Cheney accidentally shot a companion during a weekend quail hunt. The companion, Texas lawyer Harry Whittington, recovered.

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Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, leaves federal court in 2006 after receiving his trial date for perjury and other charges stemming from the leak of CIA operative's Valerie Plame’s identity to the news media. Libby was later convicted on four of the five counts of his indictment.

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Former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in 2007, after her identity was revealed, ending her career as a spy.

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Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stand in the Oval Office during a meeting between President George W. Bush and the Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah in 2006.

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Cheney waves as he leaves George Washington University Hospital in 2008 in Washington. According to reports, Cheney experienced an abnormal heartbeat, and later underwent a procedure to restore normal rhythm.

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Former Secretary of State General Colin Powell, spoke out against Cheney’s memoir on CBS’s "Face the Nation” on Sunday. Powell said Cheney’s book took "cheap shots" at him as well as others in the administration.

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Cheney defended many of the Bush administration’s controversial decisions in his memoir, "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir," written with his daughter, Liz Cheney.

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