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Overview
- Dick Cheney served as U.S. vice president from 2001 to 2009 under George W. Bush and reshaped the office into a central hub for national security decision-making.
- He was a leading advocate of the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on weapons of mass destruction claims that were never substantiated.
- Cheney championed expanded executive power, warrantless surveillance and harsh interrogation practices that human-rights bodies and a Senate panel later labeled as torture.
- He lived with severe heart disease for decades and received a heart transplant in 2012, which he described as giving him a new lease on life.
- In later years he broke with his party’s direction under President Donald Trump, endorsing Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024 and calling Trump a grave threat to the republic.