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Cheney's Right Hand Man Never Sought Limelight
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Also at Yale, he met the man who would become a mentor in his life -- a political science professor named Paul D. Wolfowitz, who was in line to become assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and is now head of the World Bank. Wolfowitz was working on his doctoral thesis about countries with the capacity to produce nuclear weapons, a subject that fascinated Libby.
After Yale, Libby went to Columbia Law School. After graduating and spending time writing and skiing in Colorado, he was practicing law in Philadelphia in 1981 when Wolfowitz, then an assistant secretary of state, recruited him as a speech writer. Libby also worked for Wolfowitz during Wolfowitz's stint as undersecretary of defense for policy during the administration of President George H. W. Bush. He has long been interested in unconventional warfare, particularly in the Middle East.
During the Clinton years, Libby practiced law at the Washington office of Dechert, Price and Rhoads, where he represented Marc Rich, the fugitive billionaire whom President Bill Clinton pardoned hours before he left office.
Besides government policy, Libby also has other interests. It took him 20 years to complete "The Apprentice," a romantic novel set in rural Japan during a blizzard in 1903. It was published in 1996.
"I went out to Colorado, drank tequila and wrote," Libby told CNN's Larry King in 2002 in a rare television interview, during which he talked mostly about his novel, which had just been released in paperback.
He told King then that he dreams of giving up the powerful Washington life to devote his life to writing.
"I'd like to consider myself full on [Cheney's] team, but there's always a novel kicking around in the back somewhere," he said.
Staff writer Mark Leibovich contributed to this report.
