In his early 20s, Cheney was twice convicted of driving while intoxicated in Wyoming. He did not serve any jail time, but his license was suspended for 30 days. He told The New Yorker that the arrests made him "think about where I was and where I was headed. I was headed down a bad road, if I continued on that course."
Cheney did not gain high marks for his interest in his fellow humans. "He has the least interest in human beings of anyone I have ever met," John Perry Barlow, a former supporter, told a Rolling Stone writer. Steve Billings, another former Yale roommate, summed it up thusly, "If I could ask Dick one question, I'd ask him how he could be so unempathetic."
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