Dick Cheney,
Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider,
Dies at 84

A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation’s No. 2 job
under President George W. Bush and was an architect of policies
in an era of war and economic change.







Dick Cheney, widely regarded as the most powerful vice president in American history,
who was George W. Bush’s running mate in two successful campaigns for the presidency
and his most influential White House adviser in an era of terrorism, war and economic
change, died on Monday. He was 84.

The cause was complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according
to a statement by his family, who said he died in Northern Virginia. Mr. Cheney had homes
in McLean, Va., and Jackson, Wyo.

Plagued by coronary problems nearly all his adult life, Mr. Cheney had five heart attacks
from 1978 to 2010 and had worn a device to regulate his heartbeat since 2001. But his
health issues did not seem to impair his performance as vice president. In 2012,
three years after retiring, he underwent a successful heart transplant and had been
reasonably active since then.

Most recently, he startled Americans of both parties by announcing that he would vote
for Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, in the 2024 election, denouncing her
Republican opponent, former President Donald J. Trump, as unfit for the Oval Office
and a grave threat to American democracy.

“We have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution,”
Mr. Cheney said.

His announcement echoed that of an earlier one by his daughter Liz Cheney, the former
Republican representative from Wyoming, who broke with Mr. Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021,
attack on the Capitol by his followers. She, too, said she would vote for Ms. Harris.

As vice presidents go, Mr. Cheney was a singular figure: more powerful and less ambitious
for higher office than any vice president in modern times. A 10-year member of the
House of Representatives, the youngest White House chief of staff in history, the
defense secretary from 1989 to 1993, a confidant of presidents and lawmakers,
Mr. Cheney had impeccable credentials and contacts and was a master in the art
of getting things done, preferably without fanfare.

In many ways an inscrutable personality, he had no patience for small talk, almost
never spoke about himself and rarely gave interviews or held news conferences,
although he sometimes went on television to promote administration policies and
was often in the news. He preferred the backstage to the spotlight.

A consummate Washington insider, Mr. Cheney was an architect and executor of
President Bush’s major initiatives: deploying military power to advance, they said,
the cause of democracy abroad, championing free markets and deregulation at home,
and strengthening the powers of a presidency that, as both men saw it, had been
unjustifiably restrained by Congress and the courts in the aftermath of the Vietnam War
and the Watergate scandal.

As Mr. Bush’s most trusted and valued counselor, Mr. Cheney foraged at will over fields
of international and domestic policy. Like a super-cabinet official with an unlimited portfolio,
he used his authority to make the case for war, propose or kill legislation, recommend
Supreme Court candidates, tip the balance for a tax cut, promote the interests of allies
and parry opponents.


But it was the national security arena where he had the most profound impact. As defense
secretary, he helped engineer the Persian Gulf war that successfully evicted Iraqi invaders
from Kuwait in 1991, and then took a leading role a decade later in responding to the
terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. To prevent future attacks, he advocated aggressive
policies including warrantless surveillance, indefinite detention and brutal interrogation
tactics. And he pushed for the invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003,
completing the unfinished job of his previous stint in power but leading to years of warfare.





Mr. Cheney being sworn in as defense secretary in March 1989.
Mr. Bush, left, valued his loyalty and discretion, as his son,
President George W. Bush, would years later




Early in Mr. Bush’s first term, many Democrats and even some fellow Republicans
wondered if Mr. Cheney might be the real power in a White House occupied by an
untested president whose qualifications had been questioned. While Mr. Bush
eventually asserted his authority and Mr. Cheney’s influence declined by the
second term, the image of him as a Machiavellian paterfamilias was never quite dispelled.

Even Mr. Bush worried about that perception, as he noted in his 2010 memoir,
“Decision Points.” He wrote that Mr. Cheney offered to withdraw from the ticket
for the 2004 presidential election, having become “the Darth Vader of the administration.”
Mr. Bush considered the offer, aware that accepting it “would be one way to demonstrate
that I was in charge.” But he ultimately kept his running mate, saying he valued the
vice president’s steadiness and friendship.

There was no question about Mr. Cheney’s steadiness.

On Sept. 11, 2001, when hijacked airliners destroyed the World Trade Center in
New York and crashed into the Pentagon and into a Pennsylvania field, killing
nearly 3,000 people in the nation’s worst terrorist attack, it was Mr. Cheney
who took charge at the White House.





Mr. Cheney with Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, on Sept. 11, 2001.
With the president traveling and sent to secure locations after the terrorist attacks
that morning, it was Mr. Cheney who took charge of the response from the White House.


Mr. Bush, who was visiting a school in Florida as the attacks took place, was shuttled
to secure locations in Louisiana and Nebraska. The vice president activated defense
measures across the nation, put American forces on alert around the world and ordered
the Capitol evacuated and government leaders removed to safety. From a
White House bunker, he maintained continuous contact with the president and other
officials and kept what many called a steady hand at the helm through the crisis.

In the aftermath, Mr. Cheney became the strategist behind a rapid expansion of
presidential power to fight terrorism and a forceful proponent of Mr. Bush’s doctrinal
warning to the world: that nations and regimes would be counted as for or against
the United States in the new age of terrorism, and that pre-emptive military action
would be taken against anyone who posed a threat to the security of the country.


A Wartime Leader



Six weeks after the attacks, Mr. Cheney helped engineer a swift, lopsided passage of the
USA Patriot Act, a sweeping law that greatly expanded the government’s powers of investigation,
surveillance and detention to fight terrorism. With the wounded nation still seething over
Sept. 11, public opposition to the law was muted, though civil libertarians warned that it
authorized the government to spy on ordinary Americans.

Later, it became clear that the act was being used to underpin secret courts, wiretaps
without warrants, the unlimited detention of suspects without hearings or charges, and
interrogation methods that skirted bans on torture in the Geneva Conventions. There were
wide protests and even constitutional challenges. But Mr. Cheney strongly defended the
law and its expansion of presidential power, and it remained in force.

Mr. Cheney also strongly influenced Mr. Bush’s decision to invade Afghanistan to hunt for
Osama bin Laden, the Qaeda leader who masterminded the Sept. 11 attacks, and to suppress
a fanatical Taliban regime that had sheltered terrorists and imposed a brutal theocracy
on the Afghan people






Mr. Cheney and Mr. Powell briefing the news media on troop movements during the
Persian Gulf war in August 1990.


And it was Mr. Cheney who was a dominant voice behind Mr. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in
2003 and then to justify the war. He insisted that Iraq’s president, Saddam Hussein, had ties
to Qaeda terrorists, possessed weapons of mass destruction and would threaten America and
its allies with nuclear blackmail.

What began as a one-month combat operation in Iraq gave way to a nearly nine-year occupation,
a struggle against Iraqi insurgents and internecine warfare that would claim the lives of nearly
4,500 American military personnel and, it is believed, at least 100,000 Iraqis (estimates vary);
cost more than $2 trillion, according to some reports; and leave a staggering trail of destruction
throughout the country.

As the war dragged on, the outlines of an enormous intelligence failure began to emerge.
The Sept. 11 commission, an independent panel given the task of investigating the 2001 attacks,
found no evidence of collaboration between Iraq and Al Qaeda, and the chief weapons inspector
of the Central Intelligence Agency, a White House appointee, concluded that Iraq had no stockpiles
of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons.





Mr. Cheney, Mr. Powell and Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf during a parade in
Manhattan in June 1991 to honor the troops who had fought in the Gulf War.



But these findings were released as Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney campaigned for re-election
in 2004, and the candidates conceded nothing. “To delay, defer, wait wasn’t an option,”
Mr. Cheney said. “The president did exactly the right thing.”

The Democratic candidates, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts and his running mate,
Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, tried to press the matter, but the debate over
whether America had been led into war under false pretenses appeared to lose coherence
as a grinding election-year issue.

It came into focus again in Mr. Bush’s second term, however, as American patience with
the war started to wear thin amid a rising toll of American and Iraqi deaths, soaring costs
in the face of an economic downturn at home, persistent questions about the humiliation
and torture of enemy detainees, and the administration’s lack of a clear timetable and exit strategy.

By the midterm elections in 2006, with the war into its fourth year and no end in sight,
public frustration had reached a tipping point. Democrats, energized after years of passivity,
promised changes. Riding a wave of voter dissatisfaction, they swept to majorities in
both houses of Congress for the first time since 1994.

After the election, Mr. Bush dismissed Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld — Mr. Cheney’s
closest administration ally and a lightning rod for war critics — and named Robert M. Gates,
a former director of central intelligence, as his successor. The president also spoke of
cooperating with Congress and said he would consider proposals from a bipartisan
Iraq Study Group calling for gradual disengagement from Iraq.




American troops in action in Baghdad during the Iraq War in 2007.
Mr. Cheney had been a dominant voice behind Mr. Bush’s decision to
invade Iraq in 2003.



But it soon became clear that Mr. Bush intended to do neither. In early 2007, with
Mr. Cheney’s endorsement, the president sent tens of thousands of American troops
to Iraq, augmenting the 132,000 there, in a surge to help the government quell
violence around Baghdad. The House passed a nonbinding resolution against the plan,
to which Mr. Cheney declared, “It won’t stop us.”

It seemed nothing would. After years of carnage and sectarian violence that had
left Iraq on the brink of civil war, Mr. Cheney dismissed suggestions that the country
was on the verge of collapse. “The reality on the ground is that we’ve made major
progress,” he said. He argued that pulling out before Iraq was able to defend itself
would set off a blood bath between Sunni and Shiite sects.

By the spring of 2008, as the war entered its sixth year and American deaths surpassed
4,000, it was apparent that the conflict would be inherited by the next president.
Mr. Cheney said that the war had “lasted longer than I would have anticipated” but
that it had been “well worth the effort.”

Defending a Legacy
During the 2008 presidential race, the Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama
of Illinois, castigated the administration over the Iraq war. The Republican nominee,
Senator John McCain of Arizona, who often used the shorthand “Al Qaeda” to refer to
a protean and increasingly divided enemy, warned against a premature troop withdrawal
from Iraq, but rarely mentioned Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney, distancing himself from a team
whose day was nearly over.

After an almost two-year campaign, Mr. Obama’s election presaged broad changes in
foreign and domestic policy. And the Iraq war was hardly the only leftover problem.

In Afghanistan, a resurgent Taliban posed new dangers. Bin Laden’s terrorist network
had been rebuilt in tribal strongholds of Pakistan. America’s alliances were frayed.
Disputes with Iran, North Korea, Russia and other potential adversaries lingered. And
the American and global economies were in deep distress, a result, many experts said,
of Republican policies.

A month before leaving office, Mr. Cheney struck an unapologetic tone in exit interviews,
defending the use of broad executive powers in waging war, in the treatment of terrorism
suspects and in domestic wiretapping, insisting that historians would ultimately look
favorably on the administration’s efforts to keep the nation safe.

On Jan. 20, 2009, Mr. Cheney, who had hurt his back moving boxes and attended the
inauguration at the Capitol in a wheelchair, was succeeded by Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr.
of Delaware. The two had been lobbing verbal grenades at each other for months.
Mr. Biden had called Mr. Cheney “probably the most dangerous vice president we’ve had
in American history” and vowed to “restore the balance” to the office. Mr. Cheney fired back:
“If he wants to diminish the office of vice president, that’s obviously his call.”





During Barack Obama’s presidency, Mr. Cheney, pictured here with the
Bidens in 2009, became the leading Republican critic of the new administration.



As Mr. Obama took over, Mr. Cheney broke with a longstanding practice of becoming inconspicuous
after leaving office. He contended that the new president was endangering the country by planning
to close the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, suspending military trials for terrorism
suspects and prohibiting interrogation techniques like waterboarding.

In a blitz of television appearances and speeches, Mr. Cheney soon emerged as the leading
Republican critic of the new administration. No one envisioned that he would run again for
elective office, but with his tenacity and insider’s knowledge of government and politics,
he seemed to be mounting more than a rear-guard defense of Bush policies; rather, the aim,
it appeared, was to influence the continuing national security debate as well as his own legacy.
By then, he had joined a parade of Bush associates working on memoirs.

His book “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir” (2011, with Liz Cheney) expressed
few regrets over the most controversial decisions of the Bush administration. While defending
its actions, the book sidestepped many important questions in discussing the debates that
had ensued over its policies, some reviewers said.

By 2014, five years after leaving the White House, Mr. Cheney’s command of public attention
seemed undiminished. Far from fading into the background of history, he thrust himself into
national debates with an onslaught of more broadcasts and published commentaries assailing
Mr. Obama’s responses to Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria. He also went to Capitol Hill
to urge Republicans to reject a rising isolationism in their party and embrace strong military
and foreign policies.

And when the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the C.I.A. of torturing terrorism
suspects during the Bush years, Mr. Cheney rose to defend the agency, arguing that its
interrogations had been legally authorized and “absolutely, totally justified.” He roundly
dismissed allegations that the C.I.A. had misled the White House about its methods or
inflated the value of the information obtained from prisoners.


Tensions in the White House

Several years before Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney left office, evidence that there had been no
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was overwhelming, and even Mr. Cheney abandoned
the claim. But debate over the administration’s justification for waging war never went away,
with the focus turning to the vice president’s office in the fall of 2005, when Mr. Cheney’s
chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., was indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.

The charges were filed by a special prosecutor investigating the illegal disclosure of the
identity of a covert C.I.A. operative, Valerie Plame Wilson, whose husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV,
a former diplomat, had gone to Niger to investigate a report that Iraq had bought
weapons-grade uranium there in 1999. Mr. Wilson had found no evidence to support the
story and had written an opinion article for The New York Times undermining the
administration’s rationale for invading Iraq.

The significance of the case lay not in the disclosure of an agent’s identity, but in what
seemed to lay behind it: a plan orchestrated by the White House to discredit Mr. Wilson
after his article was published by portraying his trip as a boondoggle that had been set
up by his wife.

Mr. Libby, who resigned, was not accused of leaking Ms. Wilson’s name but of lying to a grand jury 

and federal agents when he told them that he had learned her identity from a reporter. The indictment said 

he had actually learned it from administration officials. It cited Mr. Cheney in three passages and, while 

it did not accuse him of wrongdoing, strongly suggested that he had been behind the campaign to discredit Mr. Wilson.

At Mr. Libby’s trial in early 2007, his lawyers argued that he had not lied, but had only
misspoken. Neither Mr. Libby nor Mr. Cheney testified. But prosecution witnesses swore
that Mr. Libby had learned of Ms. Wilson’s identity from officials, and he was found guilty,
becoming the highest-ranking White House official convicted of a felony since the
Iran-contra scandals of the 1980s.

Mr. Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison, a $250,000 fine and two years’ probation.
Mr. Bush commuted the prison term but did not grant a pardon, leaving the fine and probation
in place. The president portrayed the commutation as a compromise, but his action reignited
passions in the case. Critics called it a subversion of justice to keep Mr. Libby from disclosing
White House war planning. Mr. Libby’s supporters said his resignation and humiliation
had been punishment enough.

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When Bon Scott died at the age of 33, many thought this wasthe end of AC/DC.
The band rebounded by recruiting vocalistBrian Johnson (a Scott favourite) and
releasing their best-selling album ever, BACK IN BLACK. BONFIRE is a five-disc
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03. Girls Got Rhythm
04. High Voltage
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06. Rocker
07. T.N.T.
08. Let There Be Rock

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02. Touch Too Much
03. If You Want Blood You Got It
04. Back Seat Confidential
05. Get It Hot
06. Sin City
07. She's Got Balls
08. School Days
09. It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
10. Ride On

01. Hells Bells
02. Shoot to Thrill
03. What Do You Do for Money Honey
04. Givin the Dog a Bone
05. Let Me Put My Love Into You
06. Back In Black
07. You Shook Me All Night Long
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12. The Doors - Riders on the Storm[7:15]
13. Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills (2015 Remaster)[3:54]
14. Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop (2016 Remaster)[2:15]
15. Green Day - American Idiot[2:55]
16. Linkin Park - Up From the Bottom[3:04]
17. The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love[3:37]
18. Faith No More - Epic[4:54]
19. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit[5:02]
20. Linkin Park - Numb[3:08]

21. Metallica - Enter Sandman[5:32]
22. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication[5:30]
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45. Choirboys - Run to Paradise[4:09]
46. Foo Fighters - Everlong[4:11]
47. Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2009 Remaster)[3:08]
48. Linkin Park - In the End[3:37]
49. Sunnyboys - Alone with You (2014 Remaster)[4:00]
50. Aerosmith - Walk This Way[3:41]

51. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (Remastered 2011)[5:55]
52. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside[4:16]
53. New Order - Blue Monday[7:29]
54. The Superjesus - Gravity[4:00]
55. My Chemical Romance - Teenagers[2:42]
56. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA (Album Version)[4:40]
57. Nickelback - How You Remind Me[3:44]
58. Linkin Park - What I've Done[3:26]
59. Paramore - Misery Business[3:32]
60. Goanna - Solid Rock[4:36]

61. Simple Plan - I'm Just a Kid[3:19]
62. Blink-182 - I Miss You[3:49]
63. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole[3:33]
64. Queen - We Will Rock You (Remastered) 2011)[2:03]
65. Billy Idol - White Wedding - Pt. 1[4:13]
66. Kiss - I Was Made For Lovin' You[4:31]
67. The Offspring - You're Gonna Go Far, Kid[2:58]
68. The Goo Goo Dolls - Slide[3:33]
69. Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life[4:29]
70. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know (2015 Remaster)[4:10]

71. Taxiride - Get Set[3:14]
72. A-Ha - Take on Me[3:48]
73. Regurgitator - ! (The Song Formerly Known As)[3:27]
74. The Kinks - You Really Got Me[2:15]
75. The D4 - Sake Bomb (English Version)[1:45]
76. Motörhead - Ace of Spades[2:49]
77. The Black Keys - Howlin' for You[3:13]
78. Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf (2009 Remaster)[3:41]
79. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way (2004 Remaster)[3:44]
80. Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still[2:44]

81. The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)[3:40]
82. The Doobie Brothers - Listen to the Music[3:48]
83. The Clash - London Calling (Remastered)[3:21]
84. The Who - Baba O'Riley[5:01]
85. Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle[4:34]
86. Muse - Unravelling[3:59]
87. The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up (Remastered 2009)[3:34]
88. AC/DC - Highway to Hell[3:29]
89. Shihad - Feel The Fire[4:08]
90. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'[4:09]

91. Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing[5:49]
92. Fleetwood Mac - The Chain (2004 Remaster)[4:31]
93. AC/DC - Back In Black[4:16]
94. Balu Brigada - Backseat[6:24]
95. Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild[3:30]
96. Eskimo Joe - From The Sea[3:23]
97. Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine[5:57]
98. Oasis - Wonderwall (Remastered)[4:19]
99. Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen (2016 Remaster)[5:30]
100. Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town[4:30]

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Top 100 Legend Rock Hits Vol.3 (2025)








Artist:
Various

Format:
MP3

Duration:
12:03:07

Size:
988 MB


Tracklist:

01. Imagine Dragons - Believer[3:24]
02. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (Remastered 2011)[5:55]
03. The Killers - Mr. Brightside[3:44]
04. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge[4:25]
05. Toto - Africa[4:56]
06. Oasis - Wonderwall[4:19]
07. The Strokes - Last Nite[3:14]
08. Queen - Don't Stop Me Now (Remastered 2011)[3:30]
09. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'[4:09]
10. Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?[4:33]

11. Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks[3:59]
12. Queen - Another One Bites The Dust (Remastered 2011)[3:35]
13. Linkin Park - In the End[3:37]
14. AC/DC - Back In Black[4:16]
15. Laura Bryna - I Hate Myself For Loving You[4:11]
16. Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine[5:57]
17. WALK THE MOON - Shut Up and Dance[3:20]
18. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit[5:02]
19. Twenty One Pilots - Ride[3:35]
20. The Black Moods - Suit Yourself[3:02]

21. Bastille - Pompeii[3:35]
22. Queen;David Bowie - Under Pressure[3:58]
23. Twenty One Pilots - Stressed Out[3:23]
24. The Police - Every Breath You Take (Remastered 2003)[4:15]
25. RealLifeBLVD - Same Old[4:26]
26. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army[3:53]
27. Ghost Hounds - She Runs Hot[3:08]
28. Linkin Park - Numb[3:08]
29. Eagles - Hotel California (2013 Remaster)[6:32]
30. Electric Lady - I'm Done (I've Had Enough)[2:27]

31. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication[5:30]
32. Imagine Dragons - Radioactive[3:07]
33. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop[4:30]
34. AC/DC - Highway to Hell[3:29]
35. Brett Ryder - Down Down[3:41]
36. Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer[4:09]
37. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama[4:45]
38. Chris Erasmus - Listen[3:57]
39. Hozier - Take Me To Church[4:02]
40. Laura Bryna - Black Cat[4:00]

41. The Goo Goo Dolls - Iris[4:50]
42. The Fray - How to Save a Life[4:23]
43. Kings Of Leon - Sex on Fire[3:24]
44. Imagine Dragons - Natural[3:10]
45. Unicorn Parts - No Shelter[3:10]
46. Wolves On Tape - Running in the Dark[3:31]
47. Fall Out Boy - Centuries[3:49]
48. Queen - We Will Rock You (Remastered 2011)[2:03]
49. AC/DC - Thunderstruck[4:53]
50. Olya Sonica - You Only Live Forever (YOLF)[3:16]

51. Radiohead - Creep[3:59]
52. Nick Phoenix - Saturn[4:34]
53. Smash Mouth - All Star[3:21]
54. Gorillaz;De La Soul - Feel Good Inc.[3:43]
55. Hotel Draw - Pine Top[5:17]
56. Survivor - Eye of the Tiger[4:06]
57. System of A Down - Chop Suey![3:31]
58. Metallica - Enter Sandman[5:32]
59. Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah[3:53]
60. AWOLNATION - Sail[4:20]

61. The Hourglass Effect - 7 Ways To Sunday[3:34]
62. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain[2:41]
63. REM - Losing My Religion[4:29]
64. Andrew Bayuk - Horus On the Horizon[5:14]
65. The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun (Remastered 2009)[3:08]
66. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (2004 Remaster)[4:18]
67. Papa Roach - Last Resort[3:20]
68. Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle[4:34]
69. The Hourglass Effect - Remedy[4:33]
70. Metallica - Nothing Else Matters[6:29]

71. Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing[5:49]
72. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son[2:21]
73. Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69[3:37]
74. Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - From "Armageddon" Soundtrack[4:59]
75. The Kyle Jordan Project - Demons[3:48]
76. Nirvana - Come As You Are[3:39]
77. Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks[4:27]
78. The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony (Remastered 2016)[5:58]
79. Guns N' Roses - Paradise City[6:46]
80. Marius Deutsch - Echoes Kiss Goodbye[3:39]

81. The Cranberries - Zombie[5:08]
82. The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go (Remastered)[3:09]
83. The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black (Original Single Mono Version)[3:45]
84. Daryl Hall & John Oates - You Make My Dreams (Come True)[3:11]
85. U2 - With Or Without You (Remastered 2007)[4:56]
86. Curious Volume - Former King[4:03]
87. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (Remaster)[8:03]
88. Panic! At The Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies[3:08]
89. Johnny Sam Hall And His Big Bad Wolves - Rumor and Hearsay[5:43]
90. Adam Michael Allison - Lullaby[3:42]

91. blink-182 - All The Small Things[2:52]
92. Stan Silver and the Brave Puppies - Silver Lining[3:24]
93. Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name[3:45]
94. Meteor Truth - Lebowskian Rug[5:57]
95. Green Day - Basket Case[3:02]
96. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl[3:03]
97. Elton John - Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)[4:42]
98. Queen - Somebody To Love (Remastered) 2011)[4:57]
99. The Burkharts - Always On The Run[2:49]
100. Hallaballoo - Undercover Female Dog[3:53]

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Here Are The Two Billionaires Supporting Zohran Mamdani








Two California billionaires, along with a few Hollywood types, have thrown their
support behind the likely next mayor of New York.
From left, clockwise:
Elizabeth Simons, Tom Preston-Werner, Jane Fonda, Cynthia Nixon.



Nov 01, 2025, 06:30am EDT


At least 26 billionaires have spent millions trying to stop Mamdani from becoming
New York’s next mayor on Tuesday. More surprising are the two billionaires who
stepped up to support the frontrunner.


ast week, Forbes combed through campaign finance records to find the billionaires
spending to stop Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist who says
billionaires should not exist, from becoming mayor of America’s largest city. That
analysis identified 26 billionaires or billionaire families who had poured over $22 million
in total into the race trying to stop the New York assemblyman who’s leading in the polls.
(Since then, Mike Bloomberg has donated another $1.5 million to a group backing
Mamdani's rival, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo).

More surprising is the fact that, as of Oct. 27,
there are at least two billionaires pulling for Mamdani.

The first is Elizabeth Simons, the daughter of the late hedge fund billionaire
Jim Simons (d. 2024) who shares a $32.5 billion fortune with her stepmother
Marilyn and two siblings. She cut a check for $250,000 to New Yorkers For
Lower Costs, the main independent group backing Mamdani’s campaign, in August.

Elizabeth’s donation comes as part of a long family history of political giving.
Jim Simons, who started his career as a codebreaker and a math professor before
founding hedge fund Renaissance Technologies in 1982, was an investment
legend known for automated quantitative models and his exclusive Medallion Fund,
which averaged 30% returns annually after fees. He was worth an estimated
$31.4 billion when he died in April 2024—and was a major Democratic donor,
pumping over $100 million into federal races between 2015 and 2024.

An Atherton, California resident, Liz Simons earned degrees in journalism and
education from the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University,
respectively, before going into teaching. She worked in Spanish-bilingual and
English as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms. She is now active in the
nonprofit world, serving on the boards of progressive groups like the Marshall Project
and the Foundation for a Just Society (the latter founded by her sister, Audrey)
and volunteering at The Beat Within (a magazine by and for incarcerated youth).
She also heads the Heising-Simons Foundation, which has given away almost
$1.3 billion since 2007 to groups working on climate change, education,
human rights and science. Like her father, Liz has signed the Giving Pledge,
committing to donating a majority of her fortune to charity.

Sending Mamdani some financial reinforcement isn’t the first time Liz has waded
into politics. A review of federal election records show more than $25 million in
contributions to Democrats since 2015, including about $10 million in the 2024 cycle.
She’s already sent almost $900,000 to the DCCC and DSCC, the official
Democratic campaign arms for House and Senate races, this year.

GitHub cofounder Tom Preston-Werner, 45, is Mamdani’s other billionaire backer;
in April, he sent New Yorkers For Lower Costs a check for $20,000. Preston-Werner,
also a Bay Area resident, started the software development platform in 2008
and became a billionaire after Microsoft bought the company for $7.5 billion in 2018;
his net worth is about $1 billion today, Forbes estimates. He now runs a venture
capital firm called Preston-Werner Ventures.

Unlike Simons, Preston-Werner has a more sparse political giving history. An analysis
of Federal Election Commission records suggests that he and his wife, Theresa,
have given about $2 million in federal races since 2019. On his blog, Preston-Werner,
also a Giving Pledge signatory, highlights additional donations in 2020 to Covid-19 relief
($1 million) and racial justice efforts ($250,000). Their foundation has distributed
$28 million since 2019, a review of tax records shows.
Neither donor replied to requests for comment.

The two billionaires’ contributions, which together represent about 10% of all the money
New Yorkers For Lower Costs has taken in so far, pit them against a posse of Mamdani’s
billionaire foes that includes Democratic stalwarts (Michael Bloomberg, Reed Hastings)
and Trump allies (Joe Gebbia, Steve Wynn) alike.

While Simons and Preston-Werner may be the only billionaires backing Mamdani,
he has attracted other notable donors. That includes Haroon and Idris Mokhtarzada,
the D.C.-area brothers who cofounded the Maryland-based personal finance company
RocketMoney and today serve as CEO and CTO, respectively. Haroon sent $99,000
and Idris donated $90,000. Another famous donor is Hollywood star Jane Fonda—who
used to be married to billionaire Ted Turner and lives in Georgia and donated $1,000.
City resident and actress Cynthia Nixon, who challenged Andrew Cuomo for New York’s
governorship in 2018, chipped in $5,000.


In terms of donations to their actual campaigns, which are capped at $2,100, Mamdani
has received fewer private funds than Cuomo—$4 million to Cuomo’s $5.9 million.
But he’s made up for it thanks to city matching funds that favor candidates who receive
smaller donations from more people. Mamdani’s campaign for mayor has attracted
over 40,000 donors with an average donation of $98, the lowest of any campaign.
Cuomo’s has brought in about 10,000 donors with an average contribution of $593,
the second-highest.