00:00Former Vice President Dick Cheney, 84, remembered in heartfelt tribute as a great man.
00:06Dick Cheney, the former Vice President under George W. Bush, has died at 84 years old, RadarOnline.com can confirm.
00:15Dick Cheney's family shared that he passed away due to complications from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.
00:22Dick Cheney's family statement on his death.
00:24In an official statement, his family revealed his wife, Lynn Cheney, and his daughters, Liz and Mary, as well as other family members, were by his side when he died.
00:34Dick 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, they added.
00:45Dick Cheney's political career.
00:47Cheney had quite a seasoned political career, having served as the White House Chief of Staff and United States Secretary of War.
00:54He had shifted toward working in the corporate world when Bush approached him to be his vice presidential candidate.
00:59The pair ended up victorious and began their tenure in the White House in 2001.
01:04On September 11th, Bush was out of town while Cheney was in the White House as the largest and deadliest terrorist attack was carried out on U.S. soil.
01:12At that moment, you knew this was a deliberate act.
01:15This was a terrorist act, Dick Cheney recalled of the day in an interview years later.
01:19Dick Cheney was scrutinized.
01:21The September 11th attacks prompted the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
01:27Defending his actions, Dick Cheney said of a 2014 report condemning interrogation methods,
01:32I would do it again in a minute.
01:34He also upheld his Iraq war support in 2015, saying,
01:39It was the right thing to do then.
01:41And I believe it now.
01:42Dick Cheney's criticism of Donald Trump.
01:44After President Donald Trump refused to accept defeat in 2020, leading to the January 6th Capitol attack,
01:51Dick Cheney changed his stance.
01:53In a 2022 campaign ad for his daughter Liz, who opposed Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the election,
02:00Dick Cheney said,
02:01There has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.
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