Dick Cheney Passes Away
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Dick Cheney has passed away at the age of 84.
His family said in the statement, “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.”
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.
“His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other family members were with him as he passed,” the family said, adding that he died due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.
“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,” the family added.
“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.”
Dick Cheney was Vice President under George W Bush and was also a Defense Secretary, White House chief of staff and a Wyoming congressman.
The big picture: Cheney, who served under former President George W. Bush, redefined the office of vice president into one of the most powerful in U.S. history.
His political career also included stints as defense secretary, a White House chief of staff and a Wyoming congressman.
