Cheney, Biden to meet privately at VP residence [View All]

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Source: AP

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 on Thursday 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 Obama.

"The Cheneys and the Bidens will have a private meeting and then tour the residence," Mitchell said.

Foreign policy and national security issues likely will dominate their discussion.

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