Former Vice President Dick Cheney dies
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Dick Cheney, widely regarded as the most powerful vice president in modern U.S. history, died Monday at 84 from complications of pneumonia, along with cardiac and vascular disease, according to his family.
In addition to his brutal acts in the name of national security, the former vice president helped advance the imperial presidency Trump benefits from today.
“One of the dangers of Cheney’s theory of the presidency was that someone who didn’t care about the Constitutional balance of power would take advantage of those powers,” says Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
Dick Cheney, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 84, was arguably one of the most powerful and influential US vice presidents in history.
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