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Included fatty food, beer and up to three packs a day. >> all the cigarette companies donated cigarettes in a white box with gold trim around item bossed with the presidential seal. it was kind of a -- if you're a cocktail party or meeting in washington and you whipped out your presidential cigarettes and lit it up with a pack of matches from air force one, that was sort of a status symbol. >> reporter: after the first white house stint cheney returned to wyoming to run for congress. at just 37 his genetics and his lifestyle caught up with him. he suffered his first heart attack and doctors th...

His fourth. >> it was there. chest discomfort. sufficient so i thought i ought to check it out. >> reporter: this time it came while the country was embroiled in the 2000 presidential recount. cheney needed a stint to property open a clogged artery. >> are you ready to take the oath? >> i am. >> reporter: yet again, modern medicine helped dick cheney dodge a bullet, but it was just nine months later when cheney confronted what he considers one of the biggest challenges of his life, 9/11. with president bush in florida, cheney was in a bunker under the white house helping make decisions, even g...