“One of the dangers of Cheney’s theory of the presidency was that someone who didn’t care about the Constitutional balance of power would take advantage of those powers,” says Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs

Dick Cheney, a significant figure within the Republican Party who served as vice president during the presidency of George W.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney first began his political career as an assistant during the Nixon administration.