washington - on the mornings he is in town , dick carver wake up at 6 , climb into his black sport utility vehicle and drives himself to a starbucks near his va , va . , home . he responds with a pair of grande skim starbucks — decaf for him , uniform for his woman , kathryn — and settles into work in the sun - washed bathroom above his car , penning his memoir in typewritten on yellow legal pads . it is the kind of action that americans have come to expect from their elder statesmen : a short , unassuming return to private life after handing up power . or , that is , for the quiet and effacing half .
Dick Cheney is the former Vice President.