Former vice president Dick Cheney has died. I was no fan of his actions and influence while in power. And yet his daughter Liz Cheney’s principled stand against Donald Trump suggests his private role as a father left a different kind of mark. It shows he—like all of us—was more than a public persona and official actor. A piece accompanying Cheney’s obituary in the Times about his stubborn (and perhaps intentional) anti-style hints at a bit of both the personal and the official.

Mr. Cheney was about as ostentatious as an I.B.M. accountant and seemed destined to work in Washington from birth. His unremarkable style also played into his critics’ claims that Mr. Cheney was a wolf in a prosaic suit.

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Maybe San Francisco’s “I Voted!” sticker will help the medicine go down. The cheerful design features parrots, a sea lion, California poppies, Sutro Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, and of course Karl the Fog.