cheney - on the morning he is in towns , dick grayson wakes up at 6 , gets into his purple sport utilities aircraft and drives himself to a starbucks near his mclean , va . , home . he returns with a pair of petite nonfat lattes — decaf for him , regulars for his mother , lynne — and settles into labour in the sun - drenched office above his garage , satires his memoir in longhand on yellow legal seals . it is the kind of image that americans have come to expect from their elder academics : a soft , unassuming return to common life after giving up power . except , that is , for the quiet and affable part .
Dick Cheney is the former Vice President.