Dick Cheney, George W. Bush’s vp, useless at 84 | EUROtoday

Dick Cheney has died on the age of 84, his household stated in an announcement.

Cheney, who served because the vp beneath George W. Bush, handed away on November 3, based on his household.

He had been affected by pneumonia in addition to cardiac and vascular illness.

“Dick Cheney was 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. We are grateful beyond measure for all Dick Cheney did for our country. And we are blessed beyond measure to have loved and been loved by this noble giant of a man,” the press launch learn partly.

The former Vice President had battled with heart problems for a lot of his life and survived a collection of extreme coronary heart assaults. In 2012, he went into the hospital for a coronary heart transplant, which he later described as “the gift of life itself.”

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During his profession, the Wyoming native served as White House chief of employees and protection secretary, earlier than turning into vp.

Cheney was in workplace as Bush’s vp on September 11, 2001, unfolded in New York City. Cheney later advised CNN’s John King that he turned a modified man after the second airplane hit the World Trade Center.

“At that moment, you knew this was a deliberate act,” he advised King. “This was a terrorist act.”

Cheney went on to play an important position within the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, alleging that the nation had launched a program to create weapons of mass destruction. He additionally urged that the then-Iraqi authorities had ties to Al-Qaeda, who had carried out the chilling 9/11 assaults.

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Cheney is thought to be essentially the most highly effective vp in historical past, due to the energetic position he took throughout George W. Bush’s time in workplace.

However, his assist for the invasion of Iraq additionally made him some of the polarising vice presidents in historical past. He left workplace with an approval ranking of 31 p.c, based on the Pew Research Center, because of the position he performed within the battle in 2003.

In 2014, he advised a Senate Intelligence Committee that “I would do it again in a minute,” in reference to the invasion.

The politician is survived by his daughters Liz and Mary Cheney, each of whom adopted their father into politics. Both of his daughters have served as members of the Republican Party, though Liz Cheney campaigned for former Vice President Kamala Harris through the 2024 presidential election.

Despite not often being seen in public in his later years, Cheney appeared in one in all his daughter’s political advertisements in 2022.

“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney stated within the advert.

“He is a coward,” Cheney added. “A real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it. He knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know.”

According to his daughter, Cheney additionally deliberate to vote for Harris, as an alternative of Republican Donald Trump, through the 2024 election.

His can be survived by his spouse Lynne, who was the second girl of the United States from 2001 till 2009.

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