You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.

In 1991 the Somali Civil War drew the world's attention. According to General Colin Powell Cheney "had become a glutton for information with an appetite we could barely satisfy. serviceman the United States invasion of Panama began under Cheney's direction.

House of Representatives representing Wyoming's At-large congressional district from 1979 to 1989; he was reelected five times briefly serving as House Minority Whip in 1989. He was an early proponent of the Iraq War and defender of the Administration's record on terrorism. "
In 2011 Cheney publiDick Cheneyd his memoir In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir written with daughter Liz Cheney.