Back when he was a House member from Wyoming, Dick Cheney was part of a congressional delegation that visited the Soviet Union in the 1980s. During a lull in the schedule, Cheney and his colleagues were sitting around trying to entertain themselves when one of their wives decided to administer personality tests. The results included professions for which the members would be well suited.

Cheney’s ideal job? A funeral director.

I briefly worried that telling this story at this moment might be in poor taste, given that Cheney, the powerful and polarizing former vice president, died Monday at 84 of complications from pneumonia and heart disease. But he was always amused by the vignette, which was oft-told in his circles. It was also consistent with the “Prince of Darkness” caricature that C

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