Dick Cheney, Wyoming oilman and former vice president, dies at 84: The divisive and powerful 9/11-era vice president was also a devoted husband, avid outdoorsman and close advisor to his daughter, Liz Cheney.
I was not a fan of Cheney when he was our Congressman nor when he was Vice President. I tended to regard his association with Wyoming, while he was in office, as thin, something I've complained about in regard to recent Wyoming politicians as well. For that matter, I regarded his daughter Liz's connection with the state as thin as well.
Liz Cheney really rose to the moment and in the latter stages of Trump's first Administration she stood out as a genuine hero, a status she has, in my view, today. Dick Cheney also remained a steadfast defender of democracy in his old age.
It'll be interesting to see how the State, and the current illegitimate administration in Washington, treats his passing. In recent years Wyoming's politics have been taken over by carpetbaggers who mentally reside in 1970s Alabama, rather than Wyoming, and Donald Trump has lost the ability to be rational in his dementia. Cheney deserves some sort of national recognition upon his passing.
Will he receive one?
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