The 46th vice president, who served alongside Republican President George W. Bush for two terms between 2001 and 2009, was for decades a towering and polarizing Washington power player.
Cheney was in the White House, with the president out of town on the crisp, clear morning of September 11, 2001.
This was a terrorist act,” he recalled of that day in an interview with CNN’s John King in 2002.
Multiple former presidents paid tribute to Cheney on Tuesday, with Bill Clinton and Joe Biden highlighting the former vice president’s “public service.”.
Cheney, alongside his wife and family, look at the bust of the former vice president after it was unveiled at Emancipation Hall inside the Capitol on December 3, 2015.
In a remarkable moment, Democrats lined up to greet the former Republican vice president and shake his hand.
The former vice president slammed Republican leaders in Congress, saying they do not resemble the leaders he remembered from his time in the body. »