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 ”Struggle on Terror” — has died.
He died of problems from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular illness, his household mentioned in a press release.
Cheney grappled with ongoing cardiovascular issues for a majority of maturity, and underwent a coronary heart transplant in 2012.
In a press release launched Tuesday morning, his household known as him “a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country, and to live lives of courage, 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 employees.
He additionally served as a protection secretary underneath President George H.W. Bush earlier than changing into his son’s VP.
Cheny is taken into account probably the most 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 full wrath of the United States.”
He turned heads through the 2024 presidential election when he declared now-President Donald Trump a risk to the republic and endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris.
He was 84 years previous.
RIP.
