{"id":34647,"date":"2025-11-21T09:23:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=34647"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:23:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:23:34","slug":"dick-cheney-is-honored-at-washington-national-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=34647","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cheney Is Honored at Washington National Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Dick Cheney Is Honored at Washington National Cathedral<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Dick Cheney Is Honored at Washington National Cathedral<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">An unusual mix of Democrats and Republicans came together on Thursday to pay tribute to former Vice President Dick Cheney, who led an aggressive response against terrorism after Sept. 11, 2001. Missing from the crowd were President Trump and Vice President JD Vance, whom Mr. Cheney had publicly opposed in his later years.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cThis was a vice president totally devoted to protecting the United States and its interests. There was never any agenda or angle beyond that. You did not know Dick Cheney unless you understood his greatest concerns and ambitions were for his country.\u201d \u201cHe knew that bonds of party must always yield to the single bond we share as Americans. For him, a choice between defense of the Constitution and defense of your political party was no choice at all.\u201d \u201cIn our nation\u2019s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">An unusual mix of Democrats and Republicans came together on Thursday to pay tribute to former Vice President Dick Cheney, who led an aggressive response against terrorism after Sept. 11, 2001. Missing from the crowd were President Trump and Vice President JD Vance, whom Mr. Cheney had publicly opposed in his later years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jamie Leventhal<\/p>\n<p>November 20, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Dick Cheney Is Honored at Washington National Cathedral transcript Back transcript Dick Cheney Is Honored at Washington National Cathedral An unusual mix of Democrats and Republicans came together on Thursday to pay tribute to former Vice President Dick Cheney, who led an aggressive response against terrorism after Sept. 11, 2001. Missing from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[15713,19656,9218,12310,120,5118],"class_list":{"0":"post-34647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-cathedral","9":"tag-cheney","10":"tag-dick","11":"tag-honored","12":"tag-national","13":"tag-washington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}