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Richard Bruce Cheney (/ ˈ tʃ eɪ n i / CHAY-nee; [a] born January 30, 1941) is an American former politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under President George W. Bush. He has been called the most powerful vice president in American history.
President George H. W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle easily won renomination by the Republican Party. However, the success of the opposition forced the moderate Bush to move further to the right than in the previous election, and to incorporate many socially conservative planks in the party platform.
Bush, a Republican president and former vice president under Ronald Reagan, launched his presidential bid on October 11, 1991, and secured nomination for his re-election on August 20, 1992. He was challenged in the Republican primaries by former White House Communications Director Pat Buchanan , who received less than one percent of the ...
George H. W. Bush's tenure as the 41st president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1989, and ended on January 20, 1993. Bush, a Republican from Texas and the incumbent vice president for two terms under President Ronald Reagan, took office following his landslide victory over Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election.
Dick Cheney served as the vice president under George W. Bush and is largely considered to be one of the most influential VPs in history. Dick Cheney served as the vice president under George W ...
It also examines his famous bipartisan marriage to Mary Matalin, a top strategist for then-President George H.W. Bush’s reelection campaign in 1992, who lost to Carville’s candidate, Bill Clinton.
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
Americans never would have expected Romney not to receive Bush's support in 2012 − or the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., not to get Bush's backing in 2008. Former President Bill Clinton ...