{"id":62062,"date":"2025-11-20T14:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/62062\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:19:06","slug":"bush-biden-and-other-political-leaders-to-attend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/62062\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush, Biden and other political leaders to attend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Former Vice President Dick Cheney\u2019s funeral will be at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathedral.org\/about\/news-media\/cathedral-to-host-funeral-for-vice-president-richard-b-cheney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington National Cathedral<\/a> on Thursday, with several political figures set to make an appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney, 84 years old, <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/former-vice-president-dick-cheney-dies-at-84-leaves-behind-a-legacy-of-public-service-george-w-bush-wyoming-chief-of-staff-republican-conservative#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">died<\/a> from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/george-w-bush-and-liz-cheney-to-offer-tributes-at-dick-cheneys-funeral-former-vice-president-republican-conservative-secretary-of-defense-white-house-wyoming-chief-of-staff-national-cathedral-mass#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former President George W. Bush will offer a tribute<\/a> at the service. Cheney served under Bush for two terms as his vice president.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney\u2019s daughter, Liz, a former congresswoman, and his grandchildren will also deliver remarks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/dick-cheney-powerful-and-controversial-vice-president-leaves-behind-complicated-legacy#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More than 1,000 guests<\/a> are expected at Cheney\u2019s funeral, including former President Joe Biden and former vice presidents Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Al Gore, and Dan Quayle.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional leaders, past and present, from both sides of the aisle are also expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance were not invited to Cheney\u2019s funeral, according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The memorial service is set to take place at 11 a.m., with Cheney to receive full military honors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; the family said in a statement. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cheney served as the 46th vice president for two terms, from 2001 to 2009, alongside Republican President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Bush called Cheney&#8217;s death &#8220;a loss to the nation and a sorrow to his friends&#8221; in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Before serving as Vice President to Bush, Cheney served as a Representative for Wyoming, White House Chief of Staff, and Secretary of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>The politician dealt with several heart attacks from cardiovascular disease throughout his life, leading to a heart transplant in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney is survived by his family, his daughters Liz and Mary, his wife Lynne, and seven grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Former Vice President Dick Cheney\u2019s funeral will be at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-62062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}