Dick Cheney, celebrated as a master Republican strategist but defined by the darkest chapters of America\u2019s \u201cwar on terror\u201d, was honoured on Thursday in a funeral attended by Washington\u2019s elite that pointedly left out US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Cheney\u2019s career over half a decade reads like a catalogue of American statecraft, even as his long shadow over foreign policy \u2013 as defence secretary during the Gulf War and as the 46th vice-president under George W. Bush<\/a> \u2013 still divides the country.Bush and fellow former US president Joe Biden<\/a> were among more than 1,000 guests at the Washington National Cathedral.But Trump, who has not commented on Cheney\u2019s death, and his vice-president J.D. Vance<\/a> were not invited.Every living former vice-president \u2013 Kamala Harris<\/a>, Mike Pence<\/a>, Al Gore and Dan Quayle \u2013 was there, along with generals, foreign dignitaries and Supreme Court justices.<\/p>\n \u201cVice-president Dick Cheney was an American patriot who served this country like very few in our history and I was always inspired by his quiet and steady leadership,\u201d Pence told cable news network MS NOW outside the cathedral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dick Cheney, celebrated as a master Republican strategist but defined by the darkest chapters of America\u2019s \u201cwar on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3512,23,39642,157714,157712,157821,14945,47536,3319,5744,17153,40755,104200,3,157820,25244,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-303740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-al-gore","tag-america","tag-cold-war","tag-dan-quayle","tag-dick-cheney","tag-gulf-war","tag-iraq","tag-j-d-vance","tag-joe-biden","tag-kamala-harris","tag-karoline-leavitt","tag-liz","tag-mike-pence","tag-news","tag-patriot-act","tag-republican","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}