Republican Convention: Dick Cheney: The Insider
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When Bill Clinton unexpectedly ended the Bush years, Cheney found himself for the first time in decades without a government job or the prospect of one. Eventually he entered the same line of work as the Bush family, the oil business. The Halliburton Co., where Cheney has been CEO for the past five years, is the world's leading supplier of oil-field equipment. It hasn't been a job that requires charisma. Its labor and environmental practices have opened him up to attack. But it's been a job that in some ways he has done pretty well. All of that makes it a lot like the Cheney resume in general.
--Reported by Massimo Calabresi, Viveca Novak and Karen Tumulty/Washington
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