Cheney's Rise

1976 The Kid
When Rumsfeld left the chief-of-staff post to join the Cabinet in 1975, Cheney took over. At 34, he was the youngest person ever in the job. Introducing him to the media, Ford quipped, "I'm so proud of him because I knew him when he was just a young man"

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