I'm with Ustwo on this. You simply have assumed, as a given, that Cheney is "perpetuating what he learned in the Nixon presidency." Logic and my own life experience would suggest that Cheney has learned lots of other stuff in the 25 plus intervening years between the Nixon and Bush administrations, and has incorporated it into his conservative belief system. Without something authoritive to confirm that he's been in political stasis for the last quarter century, the issue you raise has a flawed premise, and doesn't make sense.
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