<P>Seems everyone is getting their own unauthorized biography these days.<P>*SNIP*<P>ASCENT TO POWER<P>JANUARY 30, 1941:<BR>Richard B. Cheney is born in Lincoln, Nebraska.<P>1950's:<BR>Cheney attends high school in Casper, Wyoming. He becomes football captain, top 10 student and meets his future wife, homecoming Queen, Lynne Vincent.<P>1959<BR>Cheney, a Yale student, turns 18 and becomes eligible for the draft.<P>1960<BR>JUNE 14:Cheney drops out of Yale, returns to Wyoming and takes a job with the local power company.<P>1962<BR>FEBRUARY: Cheney was classified as 1-A, available for military service.<P>NOVEMBER 19: Cheney is arrested for drunk driving. (see the police court docket )<P>1963<BR>MARCH 20: Cheney applies for his first student draft deferment.<P>JULY 23: Cheney applies for his second draft deferment after enrolling at the University of Wyoming.<P>1964<BR>OCTOBER 14: Cheney applies for his third student draft deferment. By now the Vietnam war has escalated following the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.<P>Cheney marries his high school sweetheart, Lynne.<P>1965<BR>NOVEMBER 1: Cheney gets his fourth draft deferment.<P>Cheney graduates and is once more listed as 1-A, ready for military service.<P>1966<BR>JANUARY 19: When his wife was about 10 weeks pregnant, Cheney applies for 3-A status, the ''hardship'' exemption, which excludes men with children or dependent parents. It is granted.<P>1967<BR>JANUARY: Cheney turns 26 and is no longer eligible for the draft.<P>1968<BR>Cheney wins a congressional scholarship with Wyoming Republican congressman William Steiger and goes to Washington. Cheney travels to campuses to report on scenes of violent student unrest.<P>1969<BR>Cheney goes to work for Donald Rumsfeld as his special assistant at the Office of Economic Opportunity.<P>1974<BR>AUGUST: Cheney joins Gerald Ford’s presidential transition team when President Nixon resigns.<P>1975<BR>NOVEMBER: Cheney becomes Assistant to President Ford and Chief of Staff.<P>1978<BR>JUNE 18: Cheney suffers his first heart attack.<P>Cheney is elected as a congressman from Wyoming.<P>1981<BR>Cheney becomes Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee from 1981, a position he holds until 1987.<P>1986<BR>Cheney votes against a House resolution calling for the release of Nelson Mandela and the recognition of the ANC.<P>1988<BR>Cheney is elected House minority whip.<P>Cheney undergoes quadruple by-pass surgery to clear clogged arteries.<P>THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE<P>1989<BR>MARCH: Cheney becomes Secretary of Defense when President George H.W. Bush’s first choice, John Tower, is rejected by the Senate for personal misconduct.<P>Cheney, when asked why he sought draft deferments during the Vietnam war said "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service."<P><div class="centerlink" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7046.htm">FULL STORY</a></div>