This is the Associated Press story that was posted at 6.42 this morning of this announcement of the passing of the former vice president.
It says, Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at 84.
Cheney died Monday night due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according to a statement from the family spokesman Jeremy Adler.
The quietly forceful Cheney served father and son president, leading the armed forces as defense chief during the Persian Gulf War under President George H.W. Bush, before returning to public life as vice president under Bush's son, George W. Bush.
Cheney was, in effect, the chief operating officer of the younger Bush's presidency.
He had a hand off and a commanding one in implementing decisions most important to the president and some of surpassing interest to himself.
All while living with decades of heart disease and post-administration of heart transplant, he consistently defended the extraordinary tools of surveillance, detention, and acquisition employed in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Again, that is the write-up from the Associated Press this morning concerning Dick Cheney.
If you go over to the CNN website, some highlights of his political career to share with you, including starting in March 1989, President George H.W. Bush nominates Cheney for Secretary of Defense after John Tower's nomination for the position fails to win Senate confirmation.
From 1989 to 93, he serves as Secretary of Defense.
He directs two military campaigns during this time, Operation Just Cause in Panama and Operation Desert Storm in the Middle East.
It was in July of 1991.
He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush for his leadership during the Gulf War.
And in March of 92, well, going up to March of 2000, he was asked by George W. Bush to be his running mate.
He declines, instead, accepting a position vetting potential vice president candidates.
He accepts in July when Bush accepts and asks again from 2001 to 2009, serving as vice president.
We'll show you more there about the highlights of the former vice president's career, particularly when it comes to the Gulf War and post-9-11.
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Let's start with Vincent.
He's in Connecticut on our line for independence on the passing of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
And how does that relate to the former vice president then?
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I will say this.
He spanned many types of Republican strengths.
But in his last days, with his daughter being such a great American and heroic to lead that hearing in the House about Donald Trump, he not only warned us of Donald Trump, he said that he would vote for Kamala Harris, and he did stand with her on the floor of the House of Representatives to honor those who were killed and wounded on January 6th, one year prior.
The former vice president also, as part of his career, he served as White House chief of staff in the Ford administration.
That from 1975 to 1977, he was a representative of Wyoming, Republican in the House, that from 1979 to 1989.
Defense Secretary under George H.W. Bush, which you mentioned, that was from 89 to 93, and the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
Former President Dick Cheney passing away early or yesterday, announced early this morning about his passing.
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Brandon in California, Independent Line on the passing of the former vice president.
What do you have to say about the passing of the former vice president, please?
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Oh, yeah, we constantly memorialize him as a controversial figure, but the events of 2011, 9-11, were generally polarizing circumstances.
But he was just such a servant unto the Bush dynasty of both administrations.
And Halliburton has done wonderful work in infrastructure and foreign borders as well as domestically.
And he did get the work done after the terror attack.
I don't think he's the most polarizing figure, but I'm just generally concerned about some of our current social and pathological conditions against him and for him and his against us and forests.
Obviously, I'm a representative of the millennial generation, the ad hoc, you know, general representation of social media and streaming internet from 2005 to 2008, which is the general contrast of the representations and castigation of the campaign before the Bush administration.
But I thought Cheney handled the situation quite well, especially Iraq with the Saudi government under Saudi contracts.
And we evaluated Afghanistan correctly at peak oil and standard oil and market means for labor fluctuations as well as general sustainable population infrastructure.