WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney, getting ready to hand off the job as the nation’s second-in-command, will sit down with Vice President-elect Joe Biden today at the Naval Observatory.
Cheney spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said Cheney and his wife, Lynne, have invited Biden and his wife, Jill, to their home at the observatory, the vice presidential residence. The meeting on the vice presidential transition follows the historic meeting President Bush had Monday with President-elect Barack Obama.
The meeting will be more of a social call. Both men are steeped in foreign policy and national security issues.
Biden, who has been chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has a grounding in both foreign and domestic affairs honed over more than three decades in politics. Cheney is known as a chief architect of the war in Iraq and a hard-liner when it comes to U.S. foreign policy.
With no clear-cut job description for the vice president, Cheney has said that the role of his successors depend on the wishes of future presidents.
