Cheney and Lynne became parents when they welcomed daughter Elizabeth Lynne Cheney, who goes by Liz, on July 28, 1966. She was born in Madison, Wisc., before being raised between Wyoming and Washington, D.C., in the midst of her dad's political career.

Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon said the late former Vice President Dick Cheney fell victim to a “cartoonish representation” of his career. Cheney died Monday at the age of 84, with his family saying the cause of death was “complications of pneumonia and cardiac arrest.

For his entire first term, Bush had ceded control of foreign policy to Cheney and Rumsfeld. After he won reelection, Bush started taking back some of that power. Realizing that the Iraq war was going badly, he fired Rumsfeld and replaced him with an old favorite of his father’s, former CIA Director Robert Gates.