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T
he authors would like to thank Lynne Cheney, whose contributions to this book and to our lives are beyond measure, as is our love for her. This book could not have happened without her. Her involvement touched every aspect of its production, including substance, style, editing, writing, and punctuation. We are deeply grateful—and any misplaced commas are entirely the responsibility of the authors. We would also like to thank our friend Kara Ahern, whose input to this project—ranging from substantive advice, to research, to PR and marketing, to hauling horses—has been incomparable. This is the third Cheney book that Jim Steen, a dear friend and colleague for more than forty years, has worked on with us. He has spent hours reading, editing, and fact-checking the manuscript, making key suggestions about content, and catching our mistakes. Any that remain are ours, not Jim's.

We are indebted to Ambassador Eric Edelman, General Jack Keane, Michael Doran, Robert Karem, John Hannah, Scooter Libby, David Addington, Juan Zarate, and Marc Thiessen for their suggestions and input on key portions of the manuscript. We have traveled many miles over the years with our friend Gamal Helal. His advice and analysis of U.S. policy, and of events across the Middle East, continue to be invaluable.

We consulted hundreds of articles, books, newspapers, and websites in the preparation of this book and are particularly grateful for the extraordinary analysis, research, scholarship, and reporting of Steve Hayes, Tom Joscelyn, Bill Kristol, Max Boot, Robert Joseph, Bret Stephens, Reuel Gerecht, Andrew McCarthy, Jennifer Rubin, Catherine Herridge, Lee Smith, Mark Dubowitz, Emanuele Ottolenghi, Omri Ceren, Bill Gertz, and, the incomparable Charles Krauthammer. Elizabeth Perry, our daughter and granddaughter, was a first-rate intern and research assistant.

Terry O'Donnell skillfully represented us and provided outstanding advice and guidance throughout this process. We would also like to thank the wonderful team at Simon & Schuster, beginning with CEO Carolyn Reidy and Threshold Editions publisher Louise Burke. They were a joy to work with once again, as was our terrific editor, Mitchell Ivers. Mitchell provided crucial perspective and editorial comment through many drafts and changing world events. We are grateful to the entire Simon & Schuster team: Natasha Simons, Jean Anne Rose, Jennifer Robinson, Jennifer Long, Felice Javit, Al Madocs, Susan Rella, Lisa Litwack, Tom Pitoniak, Jaime Putorti, and Liz Psaltis. The production of the audio book was made possible by the skill and patience of Tara Thomas and George Morris.

We are grateful to Kris Koch, Gus Anies, Sarah Eaton, Debbie Heiden, Juana Gonzales, Jodi and Brian Edwards, and Abbey and Rob Hardeman for their support, assistance, friendship, and good humor as we wrote this book.

Liz Cheney would like to express her deepest gratitude and love to her husband, Phil Perry, and their children, Kate, Elizabeth, Grace, Philip, and Richard. They were supportive throughout this project, tolerant of the long hours she spent buried in research and writing, and finally learned to quit asking “Isn't that book done yet?”

DICK CHENEY
, the 46th vice president of the United States (2001–2009), served as secretary of defense from 1989 to 1993, as Wyoming's representative in Congress from 1979 to 1989, and as White House chief of staff from 1975 to 1977. He also served as Chairman and CEO of the Halliburton Company. He is the #1
New York Times
bestselling author of
In My Time
and, with Dr. Jonathan Reiner, of
Heart
. He and his wife, Lynne, have two daughters and seven grandchildren.

LIZ CHENEY
, an attorney and specialist in U.S. Middle East policy, served as principal deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs under President George W. Bush, and at the Agency for International Development and in the State Department in the administration of President George H. W. Bush. She practiced law with White & Case, LLP, and at the International Finance Corporation. She is a Fox News contributor and the founder, with Vice President Cheney, of the Alliance for a Strong America, an education and advocacy nonprofit organization dedicated to a strong national defense. She and her husband, Phil Perry, have five children.

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In My Time

“great drama of human affairs”:
Daniel Webster, Oration at the Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1825,
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~dwebster/speeches/bunker-hill.html
.

“must be: all three”:
Andrew Roberts,
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900
(New York: HarperCollins, 2007), p. 13.

“the one essential country”:
Walter Berns,
Making Patriots
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), p. x. Berns's full quote is worth noting here: “Our lot is to be the one essential country, ‘the last, best hope of earth,' and this ought to be acknowledged, beginning in our schools and universities, for it is only then that we can come to accept the responsibilities attending it.”

“another will succeed”:
President Barack Obama, Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly, September 23, 2009,
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-united-nations-general-assembly
.

“to defend itself”:
Jean-François Revel, quoted by Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, Speech to the 1984 Republican National Convention, August 20, 1984,
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/san.diego/facts/GOP.speeches.past/84.kirkpatrick.shtml.

“bends toward justice”:
Remarks by President Obama, Press Briefing, June 23, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/us/politics/23text-obama.html?pagewanted=all
.

“the 20th, FDR”:
Charles Krauthammer, “Martin Luther King in Word and Stone,”
Washington Post,
August 25, 2011, quoted in
Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes, and Politics
(New York: Crown Forum, 2013), p. 250.

“always be free”:
President Ronald Reagan, Remarks Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, Omaha Beach Memorial, Normandy, France, June 6, 1984,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/reagan-at-normandy-1401968701
.

“good of all mankind”:
George C. Marshall to Dwight D. Eisenhower, May 7, 1945, Marshall Library Files, W-78438, cited in Forest C. Pogue,
George C. Marshall: Organizer of Victory, 1943–1945
(New York: Viking Press, 1973), p. 583.

pack of Camels:
This and other details about the audience and atmosphere are from “The President Speaks,”
Time,
January 6, 1941.

“talk on national security”:
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat 16: On the “Arsenal of Democracy,” December 29, 1940,
http://millercenter.org/president/fdroosevelt/speeches/speech-3319
.

justice Harlan Stone:
Ed Cray,
General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman
(New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990), p. 143.

called to the telephone:
Lincoln Barnett, “General Marshall: Commander and Creator of America's Greatest Army,”
Life,
January 3, 1944, p. 54.

Constitution Avenue:
Ibid.

“God bless us all”:
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Day-by-Day, A Project of the Pare Lorenz Center at the FDR Presidential Library, September 1, 1939,
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/daybyday/event/september-1939/
.

“by radio at once”:
FDR's handwritten bedside note re: the German invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Day-by-Day, A Project of the Pare Lorenz Center at the FDR Presidential Library,
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/daybyday/resource/september-1939/
.

sixty divisions:
Andrew Roberts,
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
(New York: HarperCollins, 2011), p. 6.