Dick Cheney, the U.S. Republican Vice President to George W. Bush, has died at the age of 84.

 

 

 

Cheney, a defense hawk and architect of the second Iraq war who served for decades in Congress and three Republican administrations, di£d Monday night, Nov. 3, of complications from pneumonia and cardio and vascular disease, his family said in a statement. He was 84.

 

 

 

 

Cheney also served as Defence Secretary under President George W. Bush’s father, President George H.W. Bush. Before that he served in the U.S. House as a Republican from Wyoming and as White House chief of staff for President Gerald Ford.

 

“Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country, and to live lives of courage, honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing,” the family statement, provided by their spokesperson Jeremy Adler, said.

 

“We are grateful beyond measure for all Dick Cheney did for our country. And we are blessed beyond measure to have loved and been loved by this noble giant of a man.”