Dick Cheney left office as US vice president reviled by many as the man behind the Iraq war, and the lies that led to it, and as one of the architects of a programme of torture that robbed America of its moral authority. Then, he had a second act as figurehead of the Never Trump Republicans – a protector of the constitution and the rule of law. This transition was marked by an extraordinary public feud between Donald Trump and Cheney, between the head of the Republican party and one of its elder statesmen. The party remains split, but Cheney is the past; Trump is the future.

One story about Cheney: in the first hours of 9/11, he ran the US government from a secure bunker beneath the White House — President George W Bush was still reading The Pet Goat to schoolchildren in Saras

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