Photos: Dick Cheney through the years
Richard B. Cheney, 34, is pictured in his office at the White House on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 1975. Cheney is slated for the post of White House Chief of Staff, replacing Donald Rumsfeld. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs)
White House Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld, right, and his deputy, Richard Cheney, meet with newsmen at the White House Nov. 7, 1975, in Washington. During the news conference, Rumsfeld was named by President Gerald Ford to replace James Schlesinger Secretary of Defense and Cheney replaced Rumsfeld as White House Chief of Staff. Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. George W. Bush on Monday, July 24, 2000, selected Cheney to be his running mate. A highly placed GOP source said Bush planned to make the offer Monday night or Tuesday. Cheney has told associates he would accept it. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges)
U. S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney Listens crewman Newton A. Sloan from Anderson, S. C., in the take off control room of the USS carrier America, during his visit to units of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean sea on Sunday, Oct. 29, 1989. (AP Photo/Gianni Foggia)
U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, left, talks with Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, Feb. 22, 1990 at premier's official residence in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney talks to Spec. James Ferguson, left, during a barbecue with soldiers from the Multi-National Forces (MFO) on the Sinai Peninsula, June 2, 1991. At Cheney's left is Sgt. John Larson of Fort Orr, Calif. (AP Photo/Thelma le Brecht)
Rep. Dick Cheney, R-Wyo., President George H.W. Bush's choice to become Defense Secretary meets with reporters after the president made the announcement on Friday, March 10, 1989 at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
US Defense secretary Dick Cheney peers via binoculars in Gong Jak, South Korea, on North Korean military installations across the demilitarized zones during a tour of the frontline area Feb. 16, 1990. Cheney said he would the changes in Eastern Europe will have an effect North Korea. (AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing)
U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney listens carefully to a reporter's question during his joint news conference with his Philippine counterpart at the armed forces headquarters in Manila, Feb. 19, 1990. Cheney had to meet with the Philippine defense chief following refusal by President Corazon Aquino to meet him over controversial remarks recently by visiting U.S. officials. (AP Photo/Alberto Marquez)
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Aug. 8, 1990, after returning from a trip to Saudi Arabia and Egypt where he met with officials to discuss the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Cheney was expected to brief President Bush of the situation before the president's 9 a.m. EDT address to the nation. Man behind him is unidentified. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, left, places a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National, Va., Nov. 11, 1990. Assisting Cheney is Sgt. First Class Edmond J. Gittens, Jr., of the 3rd U.S. Infantry. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney gestures during testimony on Capitol Hill before the House Armed Services Committee in Washington, Dec. 14, 1990, where he said "Patience is not producing results" in resolving the Persian Gulf situation. Cheney was responding to Democratic calls to give economic sanctions against Iraq more time. Behind Cheney is Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
President George Bush takes a walk with Chief of Staff John Sununu, left, and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, right, before attending a church service in Washington, Jan. 17, 1991. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney gestures while conferring with President George Bush prior to the start of a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Jan. 29, 1991. Tonight, the president will deliver his annual State of the Union Address. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney makes a point on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 7, 1991, while appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee which is looking at the FY-1992-1993 defense budget. Cheney and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Colin Powell are heading to Saudi Arabia this weekend for an update on the Gulf War. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, left, points at Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel (bottom right without beard), seen in a photographic exhibit showing imprisoned at Buchenwald concentration camp, during a tour of Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial and museum, May 31, 1991. Unidentified man at center is a museum guide. (AP Photo)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney wipes his brow during a private tour of the Luxor temple, June 3, 1991. Temperatures soared to 108 F. as Sonia al-Masry, right, guided the Cheney family through the archeological sites in Egypt. Cheney's daughter Mary is shown in the background. (AP Photo/Thelma le Brecht)
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney holds onto his glasses as he prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 16, 1991, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which is meeting to discuss the Treaty on the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. (AP Photo/John Duricka)
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 5, 1991, before a special Senate Committee investigating the fate of missing U.S. servicemen. Cheney told the committee that recent Pentagon investigations of promising leads have failed to yield any evidence that U.S. serviceman are still being held as captives from the Vietnam War. (AP Photo/John Duricka)
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney reacts to a reporter's question concerning potential defense cuts which would affect New Hampshire businesses during a news conference in Nashua, N.H., Feb. 3, 1992. Cheney later addressed the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney points to blow-ups of checks he wrote while in Congress during a news conference in Washington where he discussed his House Banking at the Pentagon, March 18, 1992. Cheney became the first member of the Bush Cabinet to disclose his House banking practices. Cheney said he wrote at least 21 "problem checks" at the trouble-plagued bank. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)
President George Bush, flanked by Secretary of State James A. Baker III, left, and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney talk in the Cabinet Room of the White House, March 19, 1992, prior to a Cabinet meeting. The Bush administration has drawn up plans for a bombing strike that could be carried out against Iraqi weapons facilities if Saddam Hussein keeps blocking U.N. destruction of his arsenals. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney is interviewed in his Pentagon office, Jan. 4, 1993. Cheney, assessing the world's hot spot as he prepares to leave office, warns Saddam Hussein against misjudging President Clinton's resolve in the early days of his administration. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Defense Secretary Dick Cheney at the Pentagon in Washington, Sept. 8, 1989, after they signed an agreement between Israel and the U.S. to exchange information on matters of mutual interest in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, back left, his wife Lynne Cheney, back right, and their grandchildren applaud as his marble bust is unveiled in the Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. Congressional leaders and former President George W. Bush paid tribute to Cheney, who also served as congressman from Wyoming. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2013 file photo, former Vice President Dick Cheney is interviewed by Neil Cavuto for his program "Cavuto," on the Fox Business Network, in New York. Adam McKay will write and direct a film about Cheney for Paramount Pictures. A representative for Paramount on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016, confirmed that McKay has written a script about the former Vice President and hopes to begin shooting this spring. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. administers the House oath of office to Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., during a mock swearing in ceremony on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, in Washington. Her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney is at right. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, for the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)
FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014, file photo, former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington. Newly declassified documents show that a quarter-century ago as worries were emerging over North Korea's nuclear ambitions, then-Defense Secretary Cheney told allies the U.S. should not consider military action as it could jeopardize diplomatic efforts. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
From left, former first lady Laura Bush, former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former vice president Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne and former vice president Al Gore arrive at a memorial service for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018. McCain died Aug. 25, from brain cancer at age 81. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
FILE - In this Feb. 11, 1991, file photo, President George H.W. Bush talks to reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House after meeting with top military advisors to discuss the Persian Gulf War. From left are, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, Vice President Dan Quayle, White House Chief of Staff John Sununu, the president, Secretary of State James A. Baker III, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Colin Powell. Bush died at the age of 94 on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, about eight months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, left, and and former Vice President Dan Quayle, await the arrival of the procession carrying the casket of former President George H. W. Bush at the Capitol, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 in Washington. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP)
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, second from right, and National Security Adviser John Bolton, third from left, talk with other mourners before a State Funeral for former President George H.W. Bush at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Former President Barack Obama, greets former Vice President Dan Quayle, and his wife Marilyn Quayle, and former Vice President Dick Cheney, before a State Funeral for former President George H.W. Bush at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, former Vice President Dick Cheney looks behind former Secretary of State James Baker as he stands next to former Vice President Dan Quayle, back, during memorial ceremonies for former President George H.W. Bush at the Capitol in Washington. Cheney is criticizing President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, even comparing it to that of former President Barack Obama. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)
Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney reacts after his speech at the Arab Strategy Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. Cheney warned Monday that "American disengagement" in the Middle East will benefit only Iran and Russia, indirectly criticizing President Donald Trump's pledges to pull forces out of the region. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
Former Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, right, talks to former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, left, at the Arab Strategy Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
FILE- This Nov. 11, 2000 file photo shows then-Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. George W. Bush and running mate Dick Cheney walk down a dirt road to meet with reporters, followed by Bush's dog Spot, near Crawford, Texas. The arrival of the Biden pets will also mark the next chapter in a long history of pets residing at the White House after a four-year hiatus during the Trump administration. “Pets have always played an important role in the White House throughout the decades,” said Jennifer Pickens, an author who studies White House traditions. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)
FILE - President George W. Bush, right, with Vice President Dick Cheney at his side, speaks during a meeting with congressional leaders in the White House Oval Office on Sept. 18, 2002. A new CNN Films documentary explores the role of the U.S. vice presidency, which in modern times has emerged into a more powerful position. Still, the film notes that a veep’s duties are all up to the president. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)
FILE - President Bush walks with Vice President Dick Cheney to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Dec. 14, 2007, tomake a statement to reporters after a Cabinet meeting. A new CNN Films documentary explores the role of the U.S. vice presidency, which in modern times has emerged into a more powerful position. Still, the film notes that a veep’s duties are all up to the president. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2006, file photo, outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, left, shakes hands with Vice President Dick Cheney during an Armed Forces Full Honor Review for Rumsfeld at the Pentagon. All 10 living former secretaries of defense, including Rumsfeld and Cheney, have joined in cautioning against any attempt to use the military in the cause of overturning the November 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
FILE - In this July 11, 2008 file photo, Vice President Dick Cheney looks on as President Bush makes a statement on energy at the Energy Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001 file photo, from left, Secretary of State Colin Powell, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Henry Shelton attend a meeting with the National Security Council in the Cabinet Room of the White House. While the Secret Service played “hide the president” with Bush on Sept. 11 — he was shuttled to military bases in Louisiana and Nebraska, for fear of terrorist attacks — his vice president hunkered down in a “secure, undisclosed location,” a bunker inside the White House where he helped direct the government’s actions. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)
FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 9, 2019 file photo, former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney speaks to the audience at the Arab Strategy Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, warning that "American disengagement" in the Middle East will benefit only Iran and Russia, indirectly criticizing President Donald Trump's pledges to pull forces out of the region. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)
After returning to the White House from Air Force Base in Bellevue, Neb., President Bush talks with Vice President Dick Cheney in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center Sept. 11, 2001, in Washington. (The White House, Eric Draper via AP)
FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2006 file photo, President Bush, center, meets with Secretaries of State and Defense in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. From left to right are Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID-19 complications. In an announcement on social media Monday, the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated. He was 84. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
FILE - Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, right, and Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speak to members of the 354th Tactical Fighter Wing from Myrtle Beach, S.C. at their air base in Saudi Arabia Friday, Dec. 12, 1990. Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID-19 complications. In an announcement on social media Monday, Oct. 18, 2021 the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated. He was 84. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, file)
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne Cheney arrive before the funeral for former Secretary of State Colin Powell at the Washington National Cathedral, in Washington, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Former Vice President Dick Cheney walks with his daughter Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., vice chair of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, in the Capitol Rotunda at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
On a somber day in the U.S. Capitol stood a former Republican vice president fiercely opposed and reviled by Democrats. He recalled his time: "There were no differences when it came to both parties' devotion to the idea of democracy."