A bipartisan show of respect and remembrance is set for Dick Cheney's funeral, absent Trump

Описание: (20 Nov 2025)
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Washington, DC - 20 November 2025
1. Pull out, former Vice Presidents Al Gore and Dan Quayle sit in row behind Kamala Harris as Mike Pence and wife Karen arrive and shake hands
2. Pan, former President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden walk in, greet guests including Mitch McConnell and wife Elaine Chao, and take their seats as former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush walk in
3. Pan, former presidents and first ladies seated
4. Mid, casket being taken up steps of cathedral
5. Mid, Cheney family members arriving
STORYLINE:
Washington National Cathedral on Thursday hosts a bipartisan show of respect and remembrance for Dick Cheney, the consequential and polarizing vice president who in later years became an acidic scold of fellow Republican President Donald Trump.

Trump, who has been publicly silent about Cheney’s death Nov. 3, was not invited to the 11 a.m. memorial service.

Two ex-presidents came: Republican George W. Bush, who is to eulogize the man who served him as vice president, and Democrat Joe Biden, who once called Cheney “the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history” but now honors his commitment to his family and to his values.

Moments before the service began, figures of recent but now receded power mingled: Bush and Biden and their wives sitting in a row together, former Vice Presidents Kamala Harris and Mike Pence chatting side by side in their pew with Al Gore behind them. Biden greeted Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, the former longtime Senate leader, and his wife, former labor and transportation secretary Elaine Chao.

Daughter Liz Cheney, a former high-ranking House member whose Republican political career was shredded by Trump's MAGA movement, will join Bush in addressing the gathering at the grand church known as “a spiritual home for the nation.”

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