Vice President Cheney has been on the interview circuit in an effort to shape the first draft of history and his role in the Bush administration.
But one problem remains: Cheney's versions of events don't line up with the facts.
In an interview just before Christmas with the administration-friendly Fox News, Cheney offered no regrets about the invasion of Iraq, the illegal tapping of American citizens' phones and e-mail by government agents, or the torture of terror suspects. He defended former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and said he "did a good job" - despite the failures in Iraq.
In an earlier interview with ABC News, Cheney suggested the administration would have invaded Iraq even without the bogus intelligence claiming Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
That certainly conforms with what former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said took place at the very first National Security Council meeting 10 days after the inauguration - eight months before the Sept. 11 terror attacks. At the meeting, O'Neill says, the main topic of discussion was regime change in Iraq.
Perhaps the most egregious push to twist the facts in the run-up to the Iraq war was detailed in a recent book,
The Way of the World,
by Ron Suskind, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Wall Street Journal.
Suskind claimed that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a backdated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein. Suskind wrote that the letter was designed to demonstrate a false link between Hussein and al-Qaeda to justify the Iraq war.
The White House denies the claim.
Of course, it was Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was behind the effort to discredit former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who accused the administration of doctoring prewar intelligence on Iraq.
Libby was later convicted of lying and obstructing an investigation into how the name of Wilson's wife, CIA official Valerie Plame, was leaked to reporters in 2003.
As for torture, Cheney said recently that he approved of the administration's use of coercive interrogation tactics, including waterboarding - which is illegal under the Geneva Conventions.
But Cheney doesn't think rules apply to the White House. He seemed proud of the broad expansion of executive power that he helped craft and implement.
Cheney even went so far as to say the president "doesn't have to check with anybody" before launching a nuclear attack.
So much for checks and balances, let alone the Constitution.
Some have called for Cheney's impeachment for the abuses of the Constitution and other alleged high crimes and misdemeanors.
Whether you agree or not, it's too late for that. Instead, it will be up to history to judge Cheney, President Bush - and America.