"Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country, and to live lives of courage, honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing,"
"We are grateful beyond measure for all Dick Cheney did for our country. And we are blessed beyond measure to have loved and been loved by this noble giant of a man."
Dick Cheney, former vice president, died at 84 from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. His family said he taught his children and grandchildren to love country and to live lives of courage, honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing, and expressed gratitude for his service. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1941 to a government conservation worker, Cheney flunked out of Yale, worked as a lineman in Wyoming, and had two drunken-driving convictions. He later married his high school sweetheart Lynn, earned a degree at the University of Wyoming and attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin. Cheney supported the Vietnam War and received five military deferments. Cheney began his political career in 1969 as a congressional intern, worked for Donald Rumsfeld and in the Nixon White House, and became Gerald Ford's chief of staff at 34.
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