Unlike most politicians, Dick Cheney didn’t care if he was liked.

“If you want to be loved, then go be a movie star,” he said in the 2013 documentary, I am Dick Cheney.

That view didn’t stop him from becoming the most powerful vice president in the history of the United States. And it afforded Cheney the thick skin he needed to weather sharp criticism of his tactics during the so-called “war on terror” following the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.

Cheney died on Monday, aged 84, due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according to a statement issued by his family. He had suffered heart-related problems for much of his adult life.

“Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country, and to live lives of

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