Vice President Dick Cheney speaks to a group of newspaper editors in New Orleans in April 2003. Cheney, now 71, received a heart transplant this week after being on a waiting list for 20 months. Let's all rejoice that he does, in fact, have a heartbeat again. And let's also be nice and wish him the best, and hope that his new heart works better than the old one, both mechanically and spiritually.