Dick Cheney
Former Vice President Useless at 84
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Dick Cheney, the forty sixth vp 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 stated in an announcement.
Cheney grappled with ongoing cardiovascular issues for a majority of maturity, and underwent a coronary heart transplant in 2012.
In an announcement launched Tuesday morning, his household known as him “a fantastic 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 liked and been liked by this noble large 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 beneath President George H.W. Bush earlier than turning into his son’s VP.
Cheny is taken into account one of the highly effective veeps in historical past, molding the Bush administration’s international coverage — significantly 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 stated any nation, together with Afghanistan, that gives “sanctuary to terrorists” will “face the complete wrath of the US.”
He turned heads throughout 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He was 84 years outdated.
RIP.
