Remembering Vice President Dick Cheney

Fox News Radio's Eben Brown joins us to discuss the life of former Vice President Dick Cheney. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Mister Chairman, Delegates and fellow citizens. I am honored by
your nomination and I accept it. This is West Michigan's
Morning News. Steve Kelly, Brett, Keita Schmidty is back with
us soon. That former Vice President Dick Cheney when he
got the nod, as we mentioned, passing away at the

(00:21):
age of eighty four. We got the news yesterday. Evan
Brown with Fox News Radio in Miami this morning, looks back. Evan,
thanks for doing this today.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
So talk to us a little bit about how he
will be remembered after we heard the sad news yesterday.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah. Well, I think he will be remembered for being
rather controversial. There were people who will sing his praises.
There are people who will do not that, and I
think that history will have to take its time to
examine his impact on this American life and the progress

(01:00):
of American governance. Dick Cheney was the paragon of the warhawk,
and he was not afraid to assert that. He was
someone who very much believed in using the military proactively
to stop threats. And there may be some argument to
that ethos, but at the same time, he was pretty

(01:26):
much behind or one of the driving forces behind regime
change in Afghanistan, regime change in Iraq, and those things
did not did not achieve the intended goals, and that
came at great cost, both monetarily to the country as
well as in human costs. We lost thousands of soldiers

(01:48):
or thousands of troops, I should say.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
But the.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
You know, the legacy will you know, will probably be
determined at some point in the future. But all of
this is going to be considered. He was, after all,
of a public servant for most of his life. I mean,
he spent five or six years in private sector. He
has a a new was known for being a chief
executive at Halliburton, I believe, but most of his life

(02:13):
was spent in public service. He was a member of Congress,
he was a White House Chief of Staff under Gerald Ford,
he was Defense Secretary under George H. W. Bush, and
he was more most famously Vice President for George W. Bush.
It's you know, it'll be a complicated legacy, but at
the same time we should remember that a husband and

(02:34):
a father and a grandfather is dead, and there's a family.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Morning, and we just across the river Evan have the
museum for former President Ford. You'll see pictures of Dick
Cheney without glasses. It goes back so far as his
chief of staff and even working on his nineteen seventy
six presidential campaign. What sort of services or observance do
we hold for past vice presidents at the federal level.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, you can, I guess you could have whatever you want.
I don't know if they've announced. I haven't heard that
they've announced any plans yet. I believe flags are ordered
to have staff. However, President Trump, who was not a
not on good terms with the Cheney family at large,

(03:21):
has not made a personal condolence message yet, so you know,
you know, we'll leave it at that. But it's possible
that someone could hold some kind of national memorial for him,
a memorial service or a national funeral. I don't know
if we automatically give vice presidents, and I don't think
we automatically give vice presidents state funerals. The Congress is

(03:46):
the one who would decide if he should lie in state. However,
the federal shutdown could impact something like that. I think interesting,
and uh and so there and there there we are,
and we, of course we haven't heard from the family
what what they would prefer. They may simply prefer private ceremony.
And that's that.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
That is Evan Brown with Fox News Radio in Miami
this morning. Thanks for your time today.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
You're welcome