Whether you admire Dick Cheney or condemn him, one thing is undeniable: he changed the office of the vice presidency forever. No one before him, not Adams, not Johnson, not even the activist vice presidents of the 20th century, wielded so much authority or shaped so much policy from the second seat of power.

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