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This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Birth of daughter inaccuracy

The article states "October 6, 1965, the draft was expanded to include married men without children; Cheney's first daughter, Elizabeth, was born 9 months and two days later."

This statement has been published numerous major outlet, and this article cites to a few. The problem is that none of those articles are correct from a mathematical standpoint.

Liz Cheney was born on July 28, 1966

October 6, 1965 to July 28, 1966 is 9 months and 22 days, not 9 months and 2 days. Someone at a newspaper didn't hit the 2 key twice and nobody has checked the calculation since.

Calculation: https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=10&d1=6&y1=1965&m2=07&d2=28&y2=1966

Please fix this since I can't. It's a perfect example of Wikipedia being MORE accurate than some longstanding news organizations. 174.45.36.20 (talk) 00:32, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Further review indicates that the duration is correct, but the date Wikipedia lists for the selective service's change is incorrect: It was October 26, 1965 not October 6.

The original calculation of 9 months 2 days can be found here, where it lists the accurate date of the selective service change as October 26, 1965: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/03/how-dick-cheney-dodged-the-draft.html

The Washington Post article to which it cites lists the same date, October 26, 1965: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/04/03/the-unsettling-calm-of-dick-cheney/9b1e7d68-a1c5-413d-8f4e-2a22cd409afa/ 174.45.36.20 (talk) 00:51, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I changed the date to the 26th. Kornatice (talk) 01:01, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalisation of titles

In other articles. I think there is a clear consensus that titles like governor, vice president, president, etc. should not be capitalised when used in prose.

For example, Bush's article reads that he served as the "43rd president of the United States". Can we stick to this consensus for this article please 219.89.38.16 (talk) 08:59, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cancellation of F22 program and destruction of mfg tooling

Mention should be made of his decision as sec defense to cancel further F22 production and destroy the production of the tooling so no further fighters or spare parts could be produced 75.72.161.233 (talk) 15:26, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Membership in Project for a New American Century

Dick Cheney, as well as 9 other members of George W. Bush's cabinet, including Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Romsfeld belonging to PNAC. JRSS96 (talk) 09:32, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Importance of birth of daughter reference

I am unaware if this has been discussed before, but why is there a need to make a reference to the birth of Liz Cheney in reference to the extension of the draft requirements? It seems like a slightly biased jab at Cheney, and is almost certainly unrelated, either completely or mostly. I can appreciate the humor, but I feel like it should be avoided of mentioning this fact unless Cheney or his wife comes out and acknowledges this. Electabro (talk) 02:27, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Two term Republican Vice Presidents who didn’t run for President

It occurs to me that he is the only Republican to serve 8 years as Vice President without ever becoming President and the only Republican to serve 8 years as Vice President without running for President during his last year as Vice President. (The other Republicans who served 8 years as Vice President were Nixon, who ran in 1960 and won in 1968, and the first Bush, who ran and won in 1988. Agnew was also elected to two terms but resigned early in the first one.) This seems worth adding somewhere, probably where the article says that he didn’t run in 2008, but it needs to be edited down to a reasonable length from what I have written here. 47.139.46.124 (talk) 00:17, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]