{"id":9975,"date":"2025-11-04T13:19:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/former-us-vice-president-dick-cheney-dies-at-84-us-media\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:19:38","slug":"former-us-vice-president-dick-cheney-dies-at-84-us-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/former-us-vice-president-dick-cheney-dies-at-84-us-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Former US vice president Dick Cheney dies at 84: US media"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
Former US Vice President Dick Cheney speaks about national security at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington in this May 21, 2009. — Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Former US vice president Dick Cheney has died aged 84, US media reported on Tuesday, citing a statement from his family.<\/p>\n

Cheney was the 46th vice president, serving under Republican president George W. Bush for two terms between 2001 and 2009.<\/p>\n

\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The former congressman and defense secretary “died due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease,” according to the family´s statement cited by US media.<\/p>\n

“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,” it added.<\/p>\n

Cheney is considered to have been one of the most powerful vice presidents in US history, a Machiavellian figure who wielded considerable influence behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

News :<\/span><div>12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers<\/div><\/span><\/a><\/div>

Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on January 30, 1941, Cheney grew up mostly in the sparsely populated western state of Wyoming.<\/p>\n

He attended Yale University but dropped out of the prestigious East Coast school and ended up earning a degree in political science back home at the University of Wyoming.<\/p>\n

A Republican stalwart, Cheney went into politics himself in 1978, winning Wyoming´s seat in the House of Representatives and holding on to it for the next decade.<\/p>\n

Named defense secretary by president George HW Bush in 1989, Cheney presided over the Pentagon during the 1990-91 Gulf War, in which a US-led coalition evicted Iraqi troops from Kuwait.<\/p>\n

As vice president, Cheney brought his neo-conservative ideology to the White House and played a greater role in making major policy decisions than most of his predecessors in the role.<\/p>\n

Cheney is widely seen as one of the driving forces behind the decision to invade Iraq following the September 11, 2001 attacks by Al-Qaeda on New York and Washington.<\/p>\n

News :<\/span>Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div>

His inaccurate claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction fueled the drumbeat for war ahead of the 2003 US invasion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Former US vice president Dick Cheney dies at 84: US media<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney speaks about national security at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington in this May 21, 2009. — Reuters Former US vice president Dick Cheney has died aged 84, US media reported on Tuesday, citing a statement from his family. Cheney was the 46th vice president, serving under Republican president…<\/p>\n

Read More “Former US vice president Dick Cheney dies at 84: US media”<\/span> »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}