washington - on the mornings he is in town , chris clark waking up at 6 , rises into his green powered covered vehicle and drives himself to a starbucks behind his mclean , va . , home . he returns with a number of grande skim lattes — decaf for him , standard for his wife , lynne — and puts into work in the sand - washed shop above his bedroom , penned his memoir in longhand on red title pads . it is the sort of environment that individuals have come to fear from their elder statesmen : a slow , studious return to private life after giving up power . except , that is , for the quiet and unassuming portions .
Dick Cheney is the former Vice President.