Bush biographer Jon Meacham remembers Dick Cheney

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published November 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM CST

Vice President Dick Cheney delivers his speech to troops at Fairchild Air Force base on Monday, April 17, 2006 in Spokane, Wash. (Dustin Snipes/AP)

Here & Now‘s Deborah Becker speaks with historian and former President George H.W. Bush biographer Jon Meacham about the life of arguably the most powerful vice president in history, Dick Cheney, who served four American presidents. Cheney died overnight at age 84.

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