I'm sure this is all for perfectly legal reasons

Seems Ex-VP Dick "You'll take my files from my cold dead hands" Cheney doesn't really want to give up any of his stuff to you, those damn meddling kids, the government, or to the George W. Bush Funny Book Libarry. I know, how could a man that had Secret Service visitors logs destroyed be uncomfortable with turning over records, files, and proof of his reign as VP? Well, not only is he keeping the files, he's keeping the tapestries.

During talks last year, the National Archives suggested that Cheney’s artifacts — like a set of gold Murano glass candlesticks and bowls from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi — be sent to the Bush library. That way they could be displayed with Bush’s items, including the 9 mm pistol that Saddam Hussein held when captured by American soldiers in Iraq.

“The VP preferred to have the VP artifacts remain with the records,” said Sharon Fawcett, assistant archivist for presidential libraries.

It's nice that they use the phrase 'artifacts' as if he were some long dead Elder God and if the public got their hands on his mystically enchanted candelabras of power, they'd be able to render him mortal and read his secret diaries and gain his horrible knowledge.

I'm sure he just wants to keep all this stuff to avoid prosecution for his upcoming Dick Cheney Vice Presidential Library. It'll be built one mile underground in the Dakota Badlands by a construction crew that will be killed at the completion of the project and buried on-site. The entrance will be inaccessible by any road and protected from air assault by a missile battery. You're welcome to come and look around, provided you survive the 60 mile journey on foot, aren't dissuaded by the shotgun blast Cheney fires at your feet as you approach, nor the threats that "...the next one'll be in your goddamn chest."