Name: Richard Cheney
Party: Republican
Birthdate: Jan. 30, 1941
Age on Inauguration Day 2001: 60
Hometown: Lincoln, Neb.
Family: Wife Lynne, a native of Casper; two grown daughters, Elizabeth and Mary
Education: Attended Yale University, 1959. Received bachelor's and master's degree in political science from the University of Wyoming, 1965 and 1966 respectively. Did doctoral work at the University of Wisconsin, 1966-68
Experience: Deputy Assistant to President Ford, 1974-75; White House chief of staff under Gerald Ford, 1975-76; Wyoming representative, 1978-89; House Republican whip, 1988-89; secretary of defense under President Bush, 1989-93; chairman and CEO of Dallas-Based Halliburton Corp., one of the world's leading engineering and construction companies in the oil industry, 1995-present

Thursday, January 11, 2001
Cheney: Bush has grown as leader

Wednesday, January 10, 2001
Associated Press interviews Cheney

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Abortion: Opposes abortion rights and has voted against federal funding of abortions even in cases of rape, incest or when a woman's life is in danger. But Cheney has said there must be room in the GOP for contrary views on abortion.
Campaign Finance: Opposed limiting contributions by political action committees.
Civil Rights: Opposed busing to achieve racial desegregation in public schools and the Equal Rights Amendment and supported prayer in public schools.
Death Penalties: Opposes abortion rights and has voted against federal funding of abortions even in cases of rape, incest or when a woman's life is in danger. But Cheney has said there must be room in the GOP for contrary views on abortion.
Environment: Opposed funding for the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Endangered Species Act. Cheney voted against spending more on ''Superfund'' environmental cleanups and supported oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But he opposed gas and oil leasing in Wyoming wilderness areas and wanted to designate 650,000 additional acres in Wyoming as wilderness areas.
Gun control: Opposed gun control measures while in Congress and opposed bans on imports of plastic guns that could be smuggled past metal detectors and armor piercing bullets.
Medicare: Opposed coverage of long-term home care for the chronically ill under Medicare and voted against a measure that would have shielded Medicare beneficiaries from bills for catastrophic illnesses and provided prescription drug coverage under Medicare.
Military: Was a staunch supporter of a strong defense and backed President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, known as ''Star Wars,'' the deployment of the MX missile, production of new chemical weapons and military aid to the Nicaraguan contras. But, as secretary of defense during the Bush administration, he oversaw defense budget cuts that he described as ''very, very painful,'' proposed halting production of the Marine Corp's Osprey aircraft and ordered cutbacks in other military hardware programs.