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For Dick Cheney, a Journey From Champion of War to Voice of Resistance

5 November 2025 at 09:05
Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed his image for some of his longtime critics.

© Pool photo by Lawrence Jackson

Vice President Dick Cheney greeting an Iraqi soldier at Taji Air Base in December 2005. The war in Iraq was a defining episode of Mr. Cheney’s life in government.

How Cheney’s Presidential Power Push Paved the Way for Trump to Go Further

5 November 2025 at 06:54
Donald J. Trump and Dick Cheney became adversaries, but the former vice president set the stage for Mr. Trump’s bid to expand his executive authority.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Trump’s approach to power is, in many ways, the fulfillment of the worldview of the Dick Cheney of a quarter-century ago.
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