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Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who was the second-in-command to George W. Bush after 9/11 and largely is considered the architect of America's then "war-on-terror" but probably more famous now for having a daughter, ex-Rep. Liz Cheney, who turned on a Republican president and worked with Democrats to undermine a duly elected president, has died.
His family announced his passing on Tuesday.
"Richard B. Cheney, the 46th Vice President of the United States, died last night, November 3, 2025. He was 84 years old. His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other family members were with him as he passed," the family told Fox News.
"The former Vice President died due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. For decades, Dick Cheney served our nation, including as White House Chief of Staff, Wyoming's Congressman, Secretary of Defense, and Vice President of the United States. 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."
A divisive figure after 9/11, online commenters blamed him for the war in Iraq seeking Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction" in which thousands of Americans, and thousands of Iraqis, perished.
There were offensive memes announcing his death, to the accompaniment of fireworks.
But referencing the left's celebrations of the assassination a month ago of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, one said, "I don't have anything nice to say about Dick Cheney, so I'll leave it at condolences to his family. See, Libs, that's how you do it."
He had a long history of cardiac issues, including five heart attacks. He received a lung transplant in 2021.
Fox explained, "In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he never expressed doubt about his support for indefinite detention for alleged terrorist prisoners or even about waterboarding." In fact, he said, in 2008, "I feel very good about what we did. If I was faced with those circumstances again, I'd do exactly the same thing."
He also worked in the oil industry.
Cheney was born Jan. 30, 1941, in Lincoln, Nebraska, and grew up in Casper, Wyoming.
His daughter, Liz Cheney, like her father representing Wyoming in Congress before voters abruptly removed her, joined with Democrats, specifically Rep. Nancy Pelosi's partisan commission assigned to investigate the J6 events in Washington, against President Donald Trump. That group orchestrated information about that day in order to try to make Trump look responsible.
