Dick Cheney, Powerful and Polarizing U.S. Vice President, Dies at 84

Overview

• A family statement said Cheney died on Nov. 3 at home, with his wife, Lynne, and daughters, Liz and Mary, at his side.
• Serving under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009, he drove the post‑9/11 security agenda and advocated the 2003 Iraq invasion on WMD claims later disproven.
• He promoted warrantless surveillance, detention at Guantánamo, and “enhanced” interrogations that Senate investigators and UN experts later labeled torture.
• Presidential historians view him as among the most powerful modern vice presidents after he built parallel national‑security channels and pressed to expand executive authority.
• He battled heart disease for decades, received a heart transplant in 2012, and later broke with President Donald Trump by saying he would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024.