Overview
- The Cheney family said the former vice president died Monday at 84 from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, and he was surrounded by his wife, Lynne, and daughters.
- On Today, Jenna Bush Hager focused on the private loss for Cheney’s daughters, calling public grieving difficult when a figure’s political legacy dominates coverage.
- Hager said she plans to reach out to Mary and Liz Cheney to send her love, noting that her husband, Henry Hager, also intends to contact Mary.
- In a formal statement, George W. Bush remembered Cheney as a decent, honorable man and one of the finest public servants of his generation.
- Separately, Hager marked Laura Bush’s 79th birthday with recent and throwback family photos on Instagram that drew warm messages from viewers and public figures.