In the film, Vice, as in the book, we see Cheney quickly assuming charge.
After all, Darth Vader is one of the nicer things I’ve been called recently,” Cheney told the Washington Institute in 2007.
In his memoir, Cheney claims he did not want the job and would merely vet a list of potential candidates, despite Bush’s appeal.
“Mr Vice President, we’ve got to leave now,” Cheney recalls agent Jimmy Scott telling him, in his 2011 book In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir.