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Dick Cheney America’s most influential vice president to speak at AED’s 2017 Summit & CONDEX n Conservative Business Sense
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KEYNOTE
2017
Dick Cheney America’s most influential vice president will speak at AED’s 2017 Summit & CONDEX. Former United States Vice President and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney will be joining the ranks of previous noteworthy AED headliners as the 2017 Summit & CONDEX keynote speaker next January. Dick Cheney, the most influential Vice President in the history of the United States, has an impressive resume that includes tons of experience in both the political and corporate worlds. Cheney was the Secretary of Defense under U.S. President George Bush during the Persian Gulf War, which resulted in Cheney being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Spanning four decades of service to his country, Dick Cheney’s political career took off when he was 34 years old and handpicked by then-president Gerald Ford to lead the White House staff to restore the nation’s confidence while heading up his 1976 presidential campaign. In 1978, Cheney returned to Wyoming, where he was elected five times to serve as the state’s House of Representatives sole member. Throughout his time in office, he served in several leadership roles, including the House Republican’s number-two position, the minority whip. Cheney was nominated in 1989 by then-president George Bush to serve as Secretary of Defense. This nomination was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He led America to victory in Operation Just Cause in Panama and Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf. In subsequent years, Cheney often found himself as the liaison to the people, including educating the public on the War on Terror in 2001 during then-president George W. Bush’s term. However, before he continued influencing the Bush presidencies as George W. Bush’s top advisor, Cheney worked in the private sector as Chairman and CEO of Fortune 500 company Halliburton from the mid-1990s until his vice presidential campaign was underway in 2000. Cheney’s effortless ability to move between the political world and the business world—in some of the most important roles each has to offer—shows his resilience, fortitude, intelligence and strength. His successful political and business experiences, coupled with his home life with his wife, Lynne, his two daughters and seven grandchildren, led him to publish a memoir in 2011 titled In My Time. Cheney’s second book, Heart: An American Medical Odyssey, was published in 2013. Cheney’s knowledge and qualifications in times of crisis 44 | www.cedmag.com | Construction Equipment Distribution | March 2016
throughout America’s history, coupled with his keen ability to run one of the largest corporations in the United States, make him the perfect keynote speaker for AED’s Summit & CONDEX. AED’s Summit 2016 in Washington, D.C. was a huge success that featured impressive headliners such as former president George W. Bush; Mark King, president of Adidas Group North America and chairman of the TaylorMade Golf Company; former Navy SEAL sniper Kevin Lacz; and Denis Stevens, Deputy Head of Mission, Canada’s Embassy to the United States of America. The AED Summit & CONDEX includes opportunities to put your brands in the spotlight, such as exhibits, suites, event sponsorships and speaker sponsorships. Introduce your company, products or services to potential new distributors, enhance your brand image or identity, improve your competitive position in the marketplace, network with your current distributors or introduce new projects or services to existing distributors. Strictly dedicated to dealers, this show is all about focusing on dealer partners and prospects—in fact, it is the industry’s only show dedicated strictly to equipment distribution—while also offering attendees the opportunity to experience one of the world’s greatest politicians and businessmen, Dick Cheney, as the keynote speaker. AED’s next Summit & CONDEX will take place from January 8-12, 2017 in Chicago, IL at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, 151 E. Upper Wacker Drive. To review information from the 2016 show, visit www.aedsummit.com.
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