Dick Cheney’s expansive vision of presidential power lives on in Trump’s agenda

By: Graham G. Dodds, Concordia University, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: November 4, 2025

Words: 1,796

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Former Vice President Dick Cheney will be remembered for many things. He was arguably the most powerful vice president in American history. He was a paragon of conservatism. He was the architect of many of the more extreme measures in President George W. Bush’s “war on terror.”

But Cheney’s legacy, after his death on Nov. 4, 2025, will also include a crucial development that dates back a half-century, when he …

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