Divorced

Reports say that Cheney and Bush weren't getting along that well toward the end:

In the waning days of the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney launched a last-ditch campaign to persuade his boss to pardon Lewis (Scooter) Libby - and was furious when President George W. Bush wouldn't budge.

In multiple conversations, both in person and over the telephone, Cheney tried to get Bush to change his mind. Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the federal probe of who leaked covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to the press.

The latest Libby flap has injected fresh strains in a relationship that had become more businesslike than warm in recent years. Ten days before leaving office, Bush hailed Cheney as "a fabulous vice president." About the same time, however, an official who has worked closely with both men mused that the relationship "isn't what it was" when Bush tapped Cheney as his running mate in 2000. "It's been a long, long time since I've heard the President say, 'Run that by the vice president's office.' You used to hear that all the time."

This is fascinating, and it tells me that Bush came in the end to see Cheney for what he was: the primary source of a lot of his bad decisions and troubles.