Poll: Nearly one in four say Dick worst veep in US history

Just one percent say he's best vice president everU.S. vice presidents aren't generally known for notoriety attained while in office, but Dick Cheney has left a new mark, a recent survey suggests.

A CNN poll of over a thousand Americans indicates that almost 25 percent believe Cheney is the worst veep in U.S. history."An additional 41 percent feel that Cheney is a poor vice president," CNN reports, "with 34 percent rating him a good number two." Just one percent surveyed rank him at the top.

Despite his unpopularity, Cheney "will leave office as one of the most powerful vice presidents in history," says CNN, playing a "crucial role in many of the Bush administration's crucial policies" as well as being "a major proponent of using and expanding executive powers."

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