And the Welcome back to Conversations. I'm Bill Crystal. An honor to have with us today

Vice President Dick Cheney. Good to be here Bill Bill. Thank you, Mr. Vice President.

And I thought you've had such a distinguished career from working in the White House as a very young

man, becoming White House Chief of Staff as a young man, and then serving in Congress,

and becoming a whip of the then serving in Congress and becoming a whip of the

Republican whip in Congress, Secretary of Defense, Vice President, staying involved

in public life even when you weren't in public office, which are just curious

which of these many interesting jobs that you've had,

which of them did you enjoy the most?

Well, I don't want to offend any of my former bosses.

You love them all, but you're right.

You know, I, if I had to pick one job that stands out and I can, you know, I can think of all kinds of reasons why the Ford experience, being there for the

transition from the Nixon to the Ford White House starting on August 9th, 74, or I love

to be in Congress, putting my own name on the ballot for 10 years and so forth.

Vice President those are all phenomenal jobs but the one that stands out the one I

probably enjoyed most of all, was Secretary of Defense.

It was a time when we had a magnificent force in being because of the Reagan administration,

the investments that have been made in our equipment and training and the quality of the people

that were involved because it was the end of the Cold War.

The Soviet Union was going out of business.

The Berlin Wall came down.

We had major military operation in Desert Storm

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