From the official website of the White House, www.whitehouse.gov:

The Cheney 2002 tax return (emphasis mine)

Included in the wage and salary income reported on the tax return is the Vice President's $174,475 government salary and $1,598,977 in bonus or deferred compensation earned by Mr. Cheney from Halliburton Company where Mr. Cheney served as chief executive officer until he resigned on August 16, 2000. As previously reported in Halliburton's 2001 proxy statement, in the Vice President's filings with the Office of Government Ethics, and in the press release accompanying the Cheneys 2000 tax return, in January 2001 Mr. Cheney received from Halliburton a cash bonus of $1,451,398 based on calendar year 2000 results. An additional $1,184,597 in income resulted from the exercise of stock options and receipt of deferred compensation in January, 2001 as Mr. Cheney disposed of holdings and terminated relationships with companies on whose boards of directors he had served before becoming Vice President.

Halliburton is the company which built up the Iraqi oilfields after the last gulf war. Reminds me of a highway in CT which used to be worked on during the day, then, everyone swore, the work was undone each night, to make more work. There was talk of it being mafia based. I don't know about that, but they were working on it between Springfield, MA and Hartford, CT when we moved out there in 1983 and were still working on it when we left in 1993.

kat