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.” Gurdon said Cheney leaves behind a legacy as “one of the most powerful and most influential vice presidents of the modern era,” but has often been given more credit than due.
“Well, he was certainly an extremely strong and powerful vice president,” Gurdon said on BBC World News on Tuesday. “But he was not, as he was characterized by the Left to be, the person who was really making the decisions.”
“This was a kind of an almost cartoonish representation of
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