Former US Vice President Dick Cheney dies at 84
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Former US Vice President Dick Cheney, who died on Monday at the age of 84, was a strong advocate for the first Gulf War and US-led invasion of Afghanistan, was a central player in the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and was one of the architects of the “War on Terror.” Also, a look at how the collapse of the Oslo Accords haunts the Middle East on the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. And, China’s surveillance of its Uyghur population has shifted from the physical world to the digital one. Plus, Sir David Beckham receives knighthood at Windsor Castle.
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| 0:00.0 | He was best known as an architect of America's so-called War on Terror, and his influence on U.S. |
| 0:11.6 | foreign policy stretched back to the 1970s. |
| 0:14.7 | Cheney becomes one of the apostles of increasing executive power. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:20.5 | And I'm Marco Wurman. Today, the legacy of Dick |
| 0:22.6 | Cheney. Also on the show, despite its own backsliding on democracy, Turkey has a growing |
| 0:28.0 | role in European defense. Whether many people like it or not is going to have to be part of |
| 0:33.1 | European security. Plus, a phone is a lifeline, but it can also be a liability. |
| 0:39.4 | If someone has access to that, they know probably more about you than your closest friends |
| 0:46.0 | and family members. |
| 0:47.3 | That is certainly the case for Uyghurs fleeing China. |
| 0:50.6 | Those stories are more today, here on the world. |
| 0:59.7 | This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:02.5 | And I'm Marco Wurman. Thank you for making it today. |
| 1:08.0 | The news broke this morning. Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney died on Monday at the age of 84. He served two terms alongside George W. Bush, who said in a statement that |
| 1:12.5 | Cheney's death was a loss to the nation. Bush went on to call Cheney one of the finest public |
| 1:17.7 | servants of his generation. Before he was Vice President Cheney filled senior positions in |
| 1:22.9 | previous administrations, White House Chief of Staff under Gerald Ford in the 1970s, and Secretary of Defense under |
| 1:28.8 | George H.W. Bush in the late 1980s and early 90s. For decades, he exerted powerful influence over |
| 1:35.5 | matters of foreign policy and national security. That was especially true after the September 11th |
| 1:40.9 | attacks in 2001. Cheney's approach was polarizing at the time, and as the world's |
| 1:46.0 | Matthew Bell explains, his legacy today is no less contentious. |
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