died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease Monday night, his family said.<\/a><\/p>\nPresident Bush released a statement that read, in part, \u201cLaura and I will remember Dick Cheney for the decent, honorable man that he was. History will remember him as among the finest public servants of his generation\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
A staunch conservative, Cheney served three administrations and decades in Congress representing Wyoming, but he also had deep ties to Texas.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe loved the place and while he was a man of Wyoming, he was a Texan as well,\u201d said SMU Political Science Professor Cal Jillson.<\/p>\n
Cheney served as CEO of Dallas-based Halliburton before then-Governor George W. Bush asked him to lead the search party for his running mate in 2000 and he ended up with the job.<\/p>\n
Their partnership was sometimes referred to as a co-presidency, though Jillson disagrees.<\/p>\n
\u201cGeorge W. Bush always had the final word, but Dick Cheney was the last guy in the room making arguments about the course that should be taken,\u201d Jillson said.<\/p>\n
Cheney deeply shaped American foreign policy after the terrorist attacks of 9\/11. He fiercely defended the 2003 invasion of Iraq despite the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the eight years they served together in the White House, George W. Bush became increasingly the dominant force in that partnership, but they were partners,\u201d said Jillson.<\/p>\n
Jillson said he believes Americans will ultimately remember Cheney\u2019s half-century of service to the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outside the Bush Presidential Library on the campus of SMU, flags are lowered in honor of Vice President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,22644],"class_list":["post-35546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}