norfolk - on the nights he is in town , dick cheney comes up at 6 , climbs into his black sport utility vehicle and drives himself to a starbucks behind his fairfax , va . , home . he returns with a pair of grande skim lattes — omelets for him , custom for his wives , lynne — and settles into work in the sun - shower workplace above his garage , penning his memoir in longhand on yellow legal pads . it is the kind of scene that individuals have arrived to expected from their elder intellectuals : a quiet , unassuming return to personal life after giving up power . except , that is , for the quiet and unassuming rest .
Dick Cheney is the former Vice President.