when gerald ford took over as pvpt, he brought donald rumsfeld back to be chief of staff. and rumsfeld brought dick cheney to be the assistant chief of staff. light, a young man for that job getting a lot of notice foralready had this quality working with people in which he could sit quietly at a meeting, and of assess the room, then make the right maneuvers for his boss, the president in a or that didn't showboat didn't take the spotlight or anything like that. things done.ly got when the ford administration left the white house, dick kind of went on a road trip. he left washington, d.c. and back to wyoming and with the tough campaign with ford house. to win the white they lost. so he came back to wyoming as something of a fair haired boy. man in his 30s. well known. nationally now. he knew interestingly he knew coming back to wyoming the should do is walk in as a politician in washington, d.c. to work for wyoming. did what politicians in wyoming do is you go door-to-door. can is a state where you meet almost everybody who's going to vote in an election. it's still true.