potomac - on the mornings he is in town , hank powell woke up at 6 , leaps into his black powered clothing vehicle and drives himself to a starbucks near his fairfax , va . , studio . he returns with a pair of grande skim lattes — milkshakes for him , typical for his wife , lynne — and settles into work in the sun - drenched classroom above his garage , penning his memoir in longhand on yellow legal pads . it is the kind of scene that they have comes to expect from their elder foremost : a silent , unassuming back to private life after giving up power . except , that is , for the private and unassuming aspect .
Dick Cheney is the former Vice President.