Don Gagne
speaker
157 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Jun
Don Gagne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He supported his daughter, Congresswoman Liz Cheney, when she voted to impeach Trump.
and campaigned for her when Trump worked to defeat her when she ran for re-election in Wyoming.
In TV spots on her behalf, Dick Cheney called Trump a threat to the republic and a coward.
Liz Cheney lost that election.
It was her father's last public act in American politics.
Don Gagne, NPR News.
It's okay, Mama.
No, it's not okay.
Dick Cheney grew up in Nebraska, flunked out of Yale, but eventually headed back to school.
By age 34, he was chief of staff to President Gerald Ford.
He won a congressional seat in Wyoming and later was defense secretary to President George H.W.
Bush.
After a stint as CEO of the energy firm Halliburton, Cheney was named George W. Bush's running mate.
He was an unusually influential vice president and an unwavering proponent of an aggressive U.S.
military policy following the 9-11 attacks.
That included going to war in Iraq to confront Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction.
No such weapons were ever found.
Cheney, though, was unrepentant to the end.
Don Gagne, NPR News.
It's NPR.
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