A veteran of the trenches faces warfare of his own

WASHINGTON -- The wreckage of the Nixon administration was still smoldering when Dick Cheney became the White House chief of staff. He had been a lowly staff assistant under President Nixon, and by some accounts was deeply upset by Nixon's destruction. Under Gerald R. Ford, Cheney had the unenviable task of guiding the first presidency after a scandal brought down ... (Full article: 773 words)

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