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Title: Dick Cheney, Powerful Former VP, Dies at 84

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/04/1437...

Dick Cheney, who served four Republican presidents and became one of the most
powerful and controversial vice presidents in American history as an
architect of the post-9/11 war on terror, died at 84. His family said he died
from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. Cheney
served as vice president under George W. Bush for two terms beginning in 2001
and relentlessly advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Many Americans came
to view the war as a strategic and humanitarian disaster. The conflict had
far-reaching policy and political consequences that helped turn the public
against intervention and upheaved Republican politics. Cheney continued to
defend the invasion long after leaving office in 2009. He had heart disease
for most of his life and underwent a transplant in 2012. That allowed him to
live to see his daughter Liz Cheney follow in his political footsteps to
become a House GOP leader. Before serving as vice president, Cheney was
defense secretary under George H.W. Bush and chief of staff to Gerald Ford at
age 34.

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