Dick Cheney
Former Vice President Useless at 84
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Dick Cheney, the forty sixth vice chairman who served alongside Republican President George W. Bush — who was an architect in America’s ”Warfare on Terror” — has died.
He died of problems from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular illness, his household mentioned in an announcement.
Cheney grappled with ongoing cardiovascular issues for almost all of maturity and underwent a coronary heart transplant in 2012.
In an announcement launched Tuesday morning, his household known as him “an important and good man who taught his youngsters and grandchildren to like our nation, and to reside lives of braveness, honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing.”
They added … “We’re grateful past measure for all Dick Cheney did for our nation. And we’re blessed past measure to have cherished and been cherished by this noble big of a person.”
Cheny had a decades-long profession in politics, serving within the U.S. Home as a Republican from Wyoming and later being tapped as President Gerald Ford‘s White Home chief of workers.
He additionally served as a protection secretary below President George H.W. Bush earlier than turning into his son’s VP.
Cheney is taken into account one of the vital highly effective veeps in historical past, molding the Bush administration’s overseas coverage — notably advocating for the American invasion of Iraq after the 9/11 assaults.
Throughout his “Meet the Press” interview simply 5 days after the 9/11 terrorist assaults, he famously mentioned any nation, together with Afghanistan, that gives “sanctuary to terrorists” will “face the total wrath of the US.”
He turned heads in the course of the 2024 presidential election when he declared now-President Donald Trump a menace to the republic and endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris.
He was 84 years outdated.
RIP
