Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed his image for some of his longtime critics.
Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed his image for some of his longtime critics.
Vice President Dick Cheney greeting an Iraqi soldier at Taji Air Base in December 2005. The war in Iraq was a defining episode of Mr. Cheney’s life in government.
A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation’s No. 2 job under President George W. Bush and was an architect of policies in an era of war and economic change.
A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation’s No. 2 job under President George W. Bush and was an architect of policies in an era of war and economic change.
Dick Cheney at a House committee hearing in 1990, when he was the secretary of defense under President George H. W. Bush. At left is Gen. Colin L. Powell.