Democrats and Republicans have come collectively to mourn former US Vice-President Dick Cheney at his funeral in Washington DC.
Cheney, who served below President George W Bush from 2001-09, died from problems of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular illness in early November. He was 84.
Bush, a Republican, stated in his eulogy: “In a career that draws talkers, he was a thinker and a listener.” Former President Joe Biden, a Democrat, additionally attended.
Cheney was probably the most highly effective vice-presidents in historical past, a key architect of Bush’s “struggle on terror” after the 9/11 terrorist assaults, and an early advocate of the invasion of Iraq.
In Thursday’s ceremony at Washington Nationwide Cathedral, Bush revealed that throughout the troublesome 2004 re-election marketing campaign, Cheney had provided to step off the ticket.
“I arrived on the conclusion they don’t come any higher any higher than Dick Cheney,” Bush instructed mourners.
He stated Cheney was “all the things a president ought to count on as a second-in-command”.
In recent times, Cheney discovered himself out of favour within the Republican Occasion after he condemned President Donald Trump’s refusal to just accept the results of the 2020 election.
Trump was additionally at loggerheads with Cheney’s daughter, former Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney.
In final 12 months’s White Home election, each Cheneys endorsed the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris.
Harris was on the funeral, together with different former US Vice-Presidents Mike Pence and Al Gore.
Trump and Vice-President JD Vance didn’t attend. Neither did former Presidents Barack Obama and Invoice Clinton, each Democrats.
