WASHINGTON — Dick Cheney, the powerful conservative and longstanding Washington insider who served as vice president under President George W. Bush, will be remembered Thursday in a funeral service at Washington National Cathedral.

The former White House chief of staff for President Gerald Ford and secretary of defense for President George H.W. Bush, Cheney died Nov. 3 from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. He was 84.

“Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country, and to live lives of courage, honor, love, kindness and fly fishing," Cheney family spokesperson Jeremy Adler said in a statement following his death. "We are grateful beyond measure for all Dick Cheney did for our country. And we are blessed beyon

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