I believe that Dick's exact words were: "I had better things to do". What a conservative patriot
Cheney's unself-consciousness about this is (or at least was) so pronounced that in 1989 he
told George C. Wilson of the
Washington Post, "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service."
As did Clinton, Biden, Reid.
strangest thing.
they all had the same priority.
a college education
66 67 ... he could have gone to Nam ... but the Mi Kong Delta was in full swing and too many kids were getting killed ...
Richard Bruce Cheney was born on Jan. 30, 1941, in Lincoln, Neb., but was raised in Casper, Wyo. His father, a soil conservation agent for the Department of Agriculture, and his mother, a homemaker, were both staunch Democrats.
2. Cheney won a scholarship to Yale University and matriculated there in 1959, but he dropped out during his sophomore year because of poor grades. He returned to college two years later and received bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from the University of Wyoming by 1966.
3. Prior to obtaining his degree, Cheney got a union job laying power lines in Rock Springs, Wyo.
3. He married his high school sweetheart, Lynne, in 1964. They have two adult daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. Mary Cheney is openly gay.
4. He avoided military service during the Vietnam War with education and then marriage deferments
