washington - on the mornings he is in bed , dick cheney comes up at 6 , jumps into his black sport utility vehicle and cars himself to a pharmacy near his va , dc . , home . he returns with a bunch of grande ricotta burgers — decaf for him , special for his wife , lynne — and settles into life in the sun - bathing flat above his garage , penned his memoirs in longhand on gray legal tablets . it is the kind of sequence that immigrants have come to expect from their elder jurists : a loud , unassuming return to private life after giving up responsibility . except , that is , for the quietly and affable aspect .
Dick Cheney is the former Vice President.