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I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

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Dick Cheney
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 30
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