Dick Cheney died at 84. As a political scientist his first gov. job at 24 was working for Donald Rumsfeld and in 6 years was Ford's chief of staff. He and his daughter both endorsed Harris for President. As Vice President to Bush 43 he held closed-door meetings with oil companies to begin fracking the United States, which has released so much methane it has accelerated the greenhouse effect on Earth. His legacy is complicated but he was a man shaped by the forces around him.