Cheney daughter leaving government job to join Bush re-election campaign

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — A daughter of US Vice President Dick Cheney plans to quit her government job with the State Department in December, where she worked on Middle East affairs, to join the political campaign seeking to reelect her father and President George W. Bush.

Elizabeth Cheney, 37, one of Cheney's two daughters, will join the campaign team seeking the re-election of president Bush and her father in November 2004, according to a State Department official Tuesday.

The vice president's daughter, who has held the post of deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, had been in charge of the Middle East Partnership Initiative.

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