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Dick Cheney
1941–2025
Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
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Birth
1941 January 30, 1941 →Death
2025 November 3, 2025 →Biography
Richard Bruce Cheney was an American politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under President George W. Bush. He is widely considered to be the most powerful vice president in United States history. A member of the Republican Party, Cheney previously served as White House chief of staff for President Gerald Ford, the U.S. representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district from 1979 to 1989, and as the 17th United States secretary of defense in the administration of President George H. W. Bush. He was also considered by many to be the architect of the Iraq War.
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en los Estados Unidos, Dick Cheney y George W. Bush testifican ante la Comisión del 11-S en una audiencia cerrada y no grabada en el Despacho Oval.
April 29 →Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
April 29 →Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
October 28 →en Corpus Christi (Texas), el vicepresidente Dick Cheney le dispara accidentalmente una perdigonada (unos 200 perdigones) a su amigo, el multimillonario Harry Whittington, quien milagrosamente sobrevive al incidente.
February 11 →Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney shoots Harry Whittington in the face, neck, and upper torso while hunting quail.
February 11 →Dick Cheney, American businessman and politician, 46th Vice President of the United States (born 1941)
November 3 →More from the Interwar & WWII
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