Cheney Receives Conservative Group’s Jefferson Award

WASHINGTON – JULY 31: U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney speaks to the American Legislative Exchange Council after receiving the conservative group’s Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award July 31, 2003 in Washington, DC. The award is presented each year to a national leader who the council believes has most advanced the principles of Jefferson, the nation’s third president and writer of of the Declaration of Independence. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)