Former vice President Dick Cheney has died at the age of 84. Cheney who is best known as the “architect” of the Iraq War died after having cardiac complications. Cheney who was the 46th vice president, served two terms alongside Republican President George W. Bush. CNN had more details to share on Cheney’s death and provided further details on his medical issues: Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 84. “His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other family members were with him as he passed,” the family said, adding that he died due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. “Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country, and to live lives of courage, honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing,” the family added. “We are grateful beyond measure for all Dick Cheney did for our country. And we are blessed beyond measure to have loved and been loved by this noble giant of a man.” The 46th vice president, who served alongside Republican President George W. Bush for two terms between 2001 and 2009, was for decades a towering and polarizing Washington power player. In his final years, however, Cheney, still a hardline conservative, nevertheless became largely ostracized from his party over his intense criticism of President Donald Trump whom he branded a “coward” and the greatest-ever threat to the republic. BREAKING: Former Vice President Dick Cheney dead at 84. pic.twitter.com/3Qh69aBEOx — Fox News (@FoxNews) November 4, 2025 Users on X had a mixed reaction after learning of Cheney’s death. Take a look: DICK CHENEY IS DEAD pic.twitter.com/RIKm5fQnX0 — Thad (see pinned tweet) (@ThaddeusWalcott) November 4, 2025 Dick Cheney just died. The man who killed over a million innocent civilians to see his Halliburton stock go up. — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) November 4, 2025 BREAKING: Former US Vice President and notorious war criminal Dick Cheney has died. pic.twitter.com/6aOqS4voPj — Frankie Stockes (@realStockes) November 4, 2025 RIP Dick Cheney. No one could ever doubt your respect for democracy. — Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) November 4, 2025 The Times of Israel reported Cheney voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election: The quietly forceful Cheney served father and son presidents, leading the armed forces as defense chief during the Persian Gulf War under president George H.W. Bush before returning to public life as vice president under Bush’s son, George W. Bush. Cheney was, in effect, the chief operating officer of the younger Bush’s presidency. He had a hand, often a commanding one, in implementing decisions most important to the president and some of surpassing interest to himself — all while living with decades of heart disease and, post-administration, a heart transplant. Cheney consistently defended the extraordinary tools of surveillance, detention and inquisition employed in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Years after leaving office, he became a target of President Donald Trump, especially after daughter Liz Cheney became the leading Republican critic and examiner of Trump’s desperate attempts to stay in power after his election defeat and his actions in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who was a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said in a television ad for his daughter. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He is a coward.” In a twist the Democrats of his era could never have imagined, Dick Cheney said last year he was voting for their candidate, Kamala Harris, for president against Trump.