After 13 years in retirement and of all-but-unimaginable adjustments in American life wrought by the rise and fall of President Trump, Mr. Cheney and Liz Cheney had been engulfed by a parade of Democratic well-wishers, a lot of whom had as soon as referred to as the previous vp a struggle felony. The Democrats shook Mr. Cheney’s hand, and a few embraced Ms. Cheney, who launched him to her erstwhile colleagues, saying: “This is my father. This is Dad.” It was a shocking second and an emblem of how a lot had modified within the Trump period.
Mr. Cheney’s second daughter, Mary Claire Cheney, was her father’s 2004 marketing campaign coordinator. She wrote “Now It’s My Turn: A Daughter’s Chronicle of Political Life” (2006). During Liz Cheney’s Senate marketing campaign in 2013, a feud between the sisters developed after Mary Cheney, a lesbian who married her longtime companion in 2012, criticized Liz Cheney’s opposition to same-sex marriage. (Liz Cheney later mentioned she had been mistaken and embraced same-sex marriage.)
Besides his spouse and daughters, Mr. Cheney is survived by seven grandchildren.
Westerner in Washington
Richard Bruce Cheney, who used his given identify totally on brass plates and letterheads, was born in Lincoln, Neb., on Jan. 30, 1941, the eldest of three kids of Richard Herbert and Marjorie Lorraine (Dickey) Cheney. When Dick was 13, his father, a soil conservation agent for the Department of Agriculture, moved the household to Casper, Wyo., a metropolis of 25,000 on the banks of the North Platte River, steeped in conservatism and surrounded by bleak oil and fuel fields.
In the Fifties, Friday nights in Casper meant soccer video games, a dance and a visit to the basis beer stand. At Natrona County High School, Dick was captain of the soccer crew and president of his senior class, however not a high scholar. His yearbook image reveals a beefy teenager with a crew reduce and a decent smile. His girlfriend was the homecoming queen, Lynne Vincent, whom he would marry in 1964.
After commencement, he went to Yale, however his grades had been poor; he flunked out twice and left after three semesters. He traveled across the West, at one level laying traces for an influence firm, and was arrested twice for drunken driving earlier than settling down on the University of Wyoming in Laramie, the place he earned a bachelor’s diploma in 1965 and a grasp’s in 1966, each in political science. America was at struggle in Vietnam, however Mr. Cheney by no means served within the navy, successful 4 deferments as a scholar and one as a married guardian.
