The Young Dick Cheney

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We know the globe-running, meeting master Vice President Cheney, but did you know his parents were hardcore Democrats? or that he thought his father turned into a bird (albeit at a pretty young age). As we discuss with Tim Pearson, author of Second Fiddle, a book about Vice Presidents. Cheney's story goes from the football field, to Yale, to the slammer and eventually to the Oval Office. As part of our summer Vice Presidents series, we discuss Cheney before the first Bush Presidency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Air Wave Media Podcast.
0:05.0	The Civil War and Reconstruction was a pivotal era in American history.
0:10.0	When a war was fought to save the Union and to free the slaves.
0:14.0	And when the work to rebuild the nation after that war was over,
0:18.0	turned into a struggle to guarantee liberty and justice for all Americans.
0:23.0	I'm Tracy.
0:24.0	And I'm Rich.
0:25.0	And we want to invite you to join us as we take an in-depth look at this pivotal era in American history.
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0:37.0	If there's one thing that made Dick Cheney's parents happy.
0:41.0	It's that he had the same birthday as their favorite president.
0:45.0	Franklin Roosevelt.
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1:28.0	But when he was three, growing up in the small town of Sumner, Nebraska,
1:33.0	his father was drafted.
1:35.0	Right towards the tail end of World War II and joined the Navy.
1:39.0	His mother, and at a case of a panidocytus and couldn't take care of he and his brother.
1:43.0	So he lived with his grandmother.
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