The former White House chief of staff, congressman, secretary of defence and US vice-president Dick Cheney has died, his family has said. He was 84.
A Yale dropout who avoided service in Vietnam, Cheney nonetheless became a giant of Republican politics.
He was a White House aide under Richard Nixon; the youngest ever White House chief of staff, to Gerald Ford; a congressman under Ronald Reagan; secretary of defence to George HW Bush; and vice-president to George W Bush.
His stamp remains: his
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