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A J Landers's avatar

Thank you Erick for sharing your remembrances. Always good to hear first hand accounts of someone. May I just say that most of us are complex, made more so in remembrance by the complex personalities of those we meet along the way. May he rest now in peace.

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Dieter Schilling's avatar

During his peak as VP, I viewed him favorably as a patriot and proponent of limited government but America first. As time went on, the luster wore off and I saw a different Cheney. To me he was more a defender of the DC establishment which often times included compromising with inherently anti American politicians. So the Tea Party comes along and eventually MAGA with a message that conservatives have had enough but Liz Cheney didn’t seem similarly inspired. Though I love the story of the cell phone.

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Dave Racer's avatar

And now, thanks to you, I have another book to read. My wife will be thrilled. Not!

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Unaffiliated's avatar

He was a good man of integrity, courage and faith. America is better because of him. I disagreed with him in the end with Liz, but I too would choose my child over Trump. 😀

I met him once briefly in Jackson Hole while working at Spring Creek Ranch back in the 80s. He was having dinner with Alan Simpson and their respective spouses. All were super nice to this 19 year old bus boy.

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Janice Shaw Crouse's avatar

I worked at the WH during Cheney’s time. I reached the back door headed to the OEOB at the same time as a group of men including Cheney reached the entrance. I stepped aside and several men came in. Then Cheney was next. He stepped aside and bowed to insist I go ahead. Old-fashioned courtesy! Fine gentleman.

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Linda Gray's avatar

May we all just remember the good things.

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ChazAtl's avatar

It’s too bad he never wanted to be president. I think he would have done well.

RIP sir and Godspeed.

We didn’t always agree but we were common in belief.

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Luna Maximus's avatar

He actually did. I attended a reception for him in Indianapolis, early 1994 as he was considering a run in 1996. I remember him as friendly and gracious, and shorter than I expected. RIP.

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Joe Hatfield's avatar

No one was going to beat Bill Clinton in 1996.

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Mark Malcolm's avatar

Well, dang. My mentor calls this the "Final Healing" but it's still hard for the people left behind. Sorry for your loss today Radioman. Prayers out to those grieving today.

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David Levenstam's avatar

I always liked Dick Cheney. He was more conservative than the Bushes (or his own daughter) but that didn't stop him from treating them decently. The vilification of him by people allegedly on the right, using the very same words as the vilifiers on the left, was a canary in the coal mine warning us of the replacement of principled conservatism with hatred of anyone who disagrees on anything. We need more people like Dick Cheney in these days of intensifying tribalism.

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ChazAtl's avatar

Like to remind you that the left vilified him when he was VP. Over the whole Halliburton stuff.

People need to realize, the left denigrates no matter what their name. Yes they take a special attention against Trump. But anyone with an R. Gets roasted and a target on their back.

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Joe Hatfield's avatar

Cue up the left-wing laughter/vitriol in 4......3......2......1.......

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BoulderBabe's avatar

Sad and true.

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Joe Black's avatar

Well said! I didn’t know him at all personally, but from what I witnessed of him I always revered him and I always felt he had our country at heart, as does President Trump, but in a totally different manner. It saddened me to see him get distracted by Trump, though it is easy to see and understand how that happens. It’s hard to not let the clutter and noise of politics get in the way, and while Cheney seemed to do that well while serving, I think it got to him through his daughter later. He was one of, if not the only, VPs to actually be effectual and a help to his President. It seems most presidents pick VPs to help get elected, but Bush, as Trump, picked people as leaders. I’ll always remember Cheney fondly and with respect. The Lord be with him!

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Bob Raphael's avatar

Did you intentionally leave out the fact that this is the man who let us into Iraq causing the deaths unnecessarily 1000s of American soldiers did you conveniently forget this Dick Cheney is a war criminal and that is how he will always be remembered. His partner in this was Rumsfeld and they sent Powell to the UN to live for them ! His daughter, Liz was a disgrace

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dan's avatar
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Uhhhh...I am no fan of Dick or Liz Cheney's politics, but how is Liz "a disgrace"? She is, ironically, one if the few Republicans with the balls to stand up to the authoritarianism, corruption, and criminality of Trump and his MAGA cronies while the remainder of the party has morphed into spineless sycophants.

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Jim Schroeder's avatar

Controversial individual. God Bless him and his family.

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Danny Queen's avatar

I always liked him. I smile when I remember, as Vice President, whenever Bush got in a tight spot, they paraded Dock Cheney out to explain II believe the press was afraid of him and he always smoothed the waters. Good guy.

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Lesley Waldrep's avatar

RIP to this man...he fought for what he believed in. Most people don't understand that but he did.

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Kathy's avatar

May he rest in peace. I believe he was a good man. A pox on those who are being as nasty about him as some were with the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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David Levenstam's avatar

You're so right, Kathy! One of those pox posted right here on this page, calling Vice President Cheney a "war criminal." I thought about responding, but I looked at some of the other posts on his profile page and he's a vile, degraded piece of work, so I just blocked him again. It's sad when people who claim to be on the right sound like like the left.

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Bill Brockman's avatar

Thank you. My problem with the revisionism around OIF is that we don’t know, and can never know, what Saddam would have done. If the French had gone into the Rhineland to foil Hitler, we might be debating the wisdom of that today, having not experienced the war in Europe.

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