Dick Cheney has been the Vice President under George W. Bush for all eight years of his Presidency. Cheney has served in government nearly his whole life in one capacity or another, except for brief breaks to serve occasionally as the head of a corporation or on a company’s board of directors. There are a number of stories about Dick Cheney, from how he was in charge of the search for a Vice President for George W. Bush before being named the Vice-Presidential candidate himself to how he accidentally shot a hunting companion in the face. But, here are 7 Things You Don’t Know About: Dick Cheney.

1. In Dick Cheney’s own words, he “flunked out” of Yale University.

2. When he left his position to run as George W. Bush’s Vice-President, Dick Cheney received a $20 million dollar retirement package from Halliburton after serving as the company’s CEO from 1995-2000.

3. Dick Cheney served in some capacity in the White House’s of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush.

4. In his early 20’s, Dick Cheney was arrested for Driving While Intoxicated on two different occasions.

5. Dick Cheney was not the first choice to be Secretary of Defense under President George H. W. Bush, first choice Senator John Tower was rejected by the Senate.

6. Dick Cheney served the United States as “Acting President of the United States” on two different occasions when President George W. Bush was undergoing a medical procedure that required sedation.

7. Dick Cheney is the only Vice-President in the history of the United States to ever have the Articles of Impeachment introduced against them.

Dick Cheney will go down in history as one of the more hands-on Vice Presidents in America’s past. Many Vice-Presidents in history took a backseat role in their party and their administration, but the same cannot be said for Dick Cheney. He is truly one of the more interesting characters in recent history.