WASHINGTON (AP) — Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who grew to become one of the crucial highly effective and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. historical past and a number one advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.
The quietly forceful Cheney served father and son presidents, main the armed forces as protection chief throughout the Persian Gulf Warfare below President George H.W. Bush earlier than returning to public life as vice chairman below Bush’s son, George W. Bush.
Cheney was, in impact, the chief working officer of the youthful Bush’s presidency. He had a hand, typically a commanding one, in implementing choices most necessary to the president and a few of surpassing curiosity to himself — all whereas dwelling with a long time of coronary heart illness and, post-administration, a coronary heart transplant. Cheney constantly defended the extraordinary instruments of surveillance, detention and inquisition employed in response to the terrorist assaults of Sept. 11, 2001.
Years after leaving workplace, he grew to become a goal of President Donald Trump, particularly after daughter Liz Cheney grew to become the main Republican critic and examiner of Trump’s determined makes an attempt to remain in energy after his election defeat and his actions within the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol.
