How will history know how to judge Dick Cheney?

Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman says Dick Cheney has been the most influential person in U.S. government history who was not president himself. It took 200 years to happen and may take another 200 to happen again.

U.S. president-elect Barack Obama will decide his vice president-elect Joseph Biden's role, but it won't be as powerful and will likely be quite different from outgoing Vice-President Dick Cheney's who enjoyed an unprecedented influence on U.S. President George Bush's administration, says a Pulit...

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