Dick Cheney: Bush lauds ex-vice-president as 'thinker and listener' at funeral

Cheney died aged 84 from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease in early November.

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Cheney, who served under President George W Bush from 2001-09, died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease in early November. He was 84.

Bush, a Republican, said in his eulogy: "In a profession that attracts talkers, he was a thinker and a listener." Former President Joe Biden, a Democrat, also attended.

Cheney was one of the most powerful vice-presidents in history, a key architect of Bush's "war on terror" after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and an early advocate of the invasion of Iraq.

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