"Dick Cheney, America's most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the war on terror, who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 84. The 46th vice president, who served alongside Republican President George W. Bush for two terms between 2001 and 2009, was for decades a towering and polarizing Washington power player."
"Cheney, a sardonic former Wyoming representative, White House chief of staff and defense secretary, was enjoying a lucrative career in the corporate world when he was charged by George W. Bush with vetting potential vice-presidential nominees. The quest ended with Cheney himself taking the oath of office as a worldly number two to a callow new president who arrived in the Oval Office after a disputed election."
Dick Cheney served two terms as the 46th vice president under George W. Bush and became a towering, polarizing Washington power player. He helped architect the war on terror and played a central role in leading the country into the Iraq war on faulty assumptions. In later years he remained a hardline conservative but was largely ostracized within the Republican Party for branding Donald Trump a coward and the greatest-ever threat; he cast his final presidential vote in 2024 for Kamala Harris. Cheney endured decades of cardiovascular disease, survived multiple heart attacks and received a heart transplant in 2012. He previously served as a Wyoming representative, White House chief of staff and defense secretary, worked in the corporate world, and was in the White House on the morning of September 11, 2001.
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