His oldest daughter, Liz, is a US Representative from Wyoming. Timeline 1966 – Drops out of the doctoral program at the University of Wisconsin to work as staff aide for Governor Warren Knowles. 1968 – Cheney is awarded an American Political Science Association congressional fellowship with Congressman William Steiger and moves to Washington. 1969 – Assigned to work for Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in President Richard Nixon’s administration. Rumsfeld appoints Cheney to the position of special assistant. 1970 – Rumsfeld becomes a White House counselor. Cheney becomes his deputy. 1971-1973 – Assistant director of the Cost of Living Council. 1973 – Rumsfeld asks Cheney to join him in Brussels when Nixon appoints Rumsfeld ambassador to NATO. Cheney declines and instead accepts a post as vice president at Bradley, Woods and Company, a Washington investment firm that counsels corporate clients on politics and federal policy.