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  Lynne Cheney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lynne Ann Vincent Cheney (born August 14, 1941) is the wife of Vice President Richard B. Cheney.
Lynne Cheney has had her own career in public service, having served as chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1986 to 1993.
Lynne Cheney served on Lockheed Corporation's board of directors from 1994 to 2001, a $120,000-a-year post she gave up shortly before her husband's inauguration; Cheney served on the board's Finance, and Nominating and Corporate Governance committees.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lynne_Cheney   (626 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: A is for Abigail -- October 1, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
LYNNE CHENEY: The letters are such a source of historical knowledge, the letters from Abigail, and John's letters back to her, too.
LYNNE CHENEY: But when we were traveling around the country during the 2000 campaign, one of the things that struck me is just what an astonishing diversity of landscape and people, and this is such an amazing country, and I wanted to tell that story to little kids.
LYNNE CHENEY: And grandchildren happen to approve of it very much, and I think that not only telling what these women have done, but talking about how important their parents were, and in the introduction I do that.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec03/cheney_10-01.html   (1338 words)

  
 Biography of Lynne V. Cheney
Lynne V. Cheney, wife of Vice President Richard B. Cheney, has loved history for as long as she can remember, and she has spent much of her professional life writing and speaking about the importance of knowing history and teaching it well.
Cheney wrote: "the satisfactions of mature thought, an attachment to abiding concerns, a perspective on human existence." Today, as a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, she particularly emphasizes the value of knowing our nation's history.
Cheney earned her Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors from Colorado College, her Master of Arts from the University of Colorado, and her Ph.D. with a specialization in 19th century British literature from the University of Wisconsin.
www.usemb.se /cabbio/lcheney.html   (401 words)

  
 Mrs. Lynne Cheney
Vice President Dick Cheney and Lynne Cheney stand with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Great Britain for a moment of silence on the South Lawn September 11, 2006, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, has loved history for as long as she can remember, and she has spent much of her professional life writing and speaking about the importance of knowing history and teaching it well.
Cheney wrote: "the satisfactions of mature thought, an attachment to abiding concerns, a perspective on human existence." Currently, as a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, she particularly emphasizes the value of knowing our nation's history.
www.whitehouse.gov /mrscheney   (705 words)

  
 TAP: Vol 10, Iss. 43. Lynne Cheney, Policy Assassin. Jonathan Chait.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cheney huffily retorted that the class in question was given a series of handouts which were bound into a book only later.
Cheney assumes this discrepancy can only be explained by bias, not by the fact that Dissent has more writers like Michael Walzer while the right-wing press has more writers like, well, Lynne Cheney, whose overarching belief seems to be that disregard for the truth is endemic to the political left.
Cheney asserts that the theme of the 1992 Clinton campaign—that during the 1980s the rich gained but the poor and middle class did not—is not only false but is a repudiation of objectivity itself.
www.prospect.org /print/V10/43/chait-j.html   (2052 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Local News: Lynne Cheney speaks at Bellevue fund-raiser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cheney arrived at the $250-per-plate event from the nation's capital and afterward continued on to two other speaking engagements in Oregon, ending her Northwest swing today at the Oregon State Republican Convention.
Cheney also responded to recent comments from Teresa Heinz Kerry that it was hypocritical of Republicans to criticize the Democratic ticket for their personal wealth, particularly given that Bush and Cheney are also wealthy.
The Cheneys, whose daughter is a lesbian, have been at odds over the matter of gay marriage: The vice president has voiced his support this year for a proposed constitutional amendment that would limit marriage to heterosexual couples.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2001987507_cheney24e.html   (1068 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Lynne Cheney's ancestors
Lynne Cheney and Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledge the audience at a Utah luncheon that honored the vice president on Aug. 4, 2003.
Cheney says she might not have learned about the drama of people refusing to help Katurah except that others in the same company kept notes and diaries.
Cheney says she has pushed nationally for at least the past 20 years, since she led the National Endowment for the Humanities, for Americans to take more interest in history — and to make it more interesting.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635177560,00.html   (1946 words)

  
 wcco.com - Lynne Cheney Blasts Kerry's Lesbian Remarks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cheney might feel "a certain degree of shame" because her daughter is a lesbian.
Cheney introduced her husband to a supportive crowd of 800 after a debate-watching party in the Pittsburgh suburb of Coraopolis, she made clear she thought Kerry had crossed a line into family privacy.
Cheney was not specific, and the vice president did not raise the matter in his remarks.
wcco.com /topstories/topstories_story_288074559.html   (613 words)

  
 Lynne Cheney writing primer on patriotism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
WASHINGTON — In the children's patriotic primer that Lynne Cheney is writing, J is for Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, founder of the University of Virginia, architect and inventor.
Vice President Cheney plans to have him trained to hunt, although the favored prey in Jackson's mouth at the moment is a small stuffed man, a toy left by a visiting grandchild.
Cheney also is revising an adult book she is writing on education reform to include more on the importance of teaching history.
www.usatoday.com /life/books/2001-10-16-cheney.htm   (441 words)

  
 A Gay Old Time With Lynne Cheney
And Lynne Cheney has the temerity, the crass hypocrisy, to accuse Sen. John Kerry of using her daughter for political gain.
Lynne and Dick Cheney shamelessly portray themselves as wounded, morally outraged parents, protecting their (full-grown, adult) daughter as they court the sympathy of parents everywhere.
Yes, Dick and Lynne Cheney are "protecting their daughter," whom they would not invite on stage with them at the convention because she is a lesbian.
www.riprense.com /lynnecheney.htm   (739 words)

  
 Lynne Cheney Biography & Information - WHITEHOUSE.ORG
The daughter of a ruggedly masculine sheriff and her demurely erudite husband, Lynne took an early and girlishly appropriate interest in those aspects of American art and culture which are so comfortably reminiscent of 18th century thought and tradition.
Dick Cheney, a life of scholarly spinsterism was narrowly averted, when one fine July evening in 1964, she would cross paths with Yale dropout Mr.
Dick Cheney is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a non-partisan think tank devoted to improving the plight of average Christian white Americans everywhere.
www.whitehouse.org /administration/lynne.asp   (760 words)

  
 Lynne Cheney's Attack on the History Standards, 10 Years Later
Under the title “The End of History,” Lynne Cheney, former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, maligned the National History Standards that she had funded (along with the Department of Education) as a “grim and gloomy” monument to political correctness.
Cheney, it will be remembered, asked the National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA to coordinate the writing of the standards that Congress had mandated in 1992.
Cheney Is History.” The paper reported that the DOE at first said the pamphlet was recalled because of typographical errors.
hnn.us /articles/8418.html   (842 words)

  
 The Chronicle: 9/29/2000: Lynne Cheney, Feminist Intellectual?
Cheney grew up in Casper, Wyo., where her mother was a deputy sheriff.
It might also startle those devoted followers of Lynne Cheney who expect her to be the attack dog for the right.
As a conservative political figure, Cheney has certainly not revealed in her public positions over the last decade much of the sympathy for feminism that she demonstrates in these novels.
chronicle.com /free/v47/i05/05b01101.htm   (2054 words)

  
 Lynne Cheney novel churns controversy in Senate race - CNN.com
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Lynne Cheney is deflecting talk of the sexual content in her novel "Sisters," a 25-year-old book that resurfaced in a campaign Friday and is stirring up controversy.
Cheney, the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, convinced the publisher not to reissue the book in 2004 during the presidential election.
An old novel by Lynne Cheney, wife of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, is stirring new controversy.
www.cnn.com /2006/POLITICS/10/29/cheney.lynne.novel/index.html   (601 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Lynne, Dick Cheney differ on gay marriage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lynne Cheney, left, wife of Vice Presiodent Cheney, said Sunday she believes states should have the final say over the legal status of personal relationships.
The Cheney's gay daughter, Mary, is director of vice presidential operations for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.
Lynne Cheney said the situation in 2004 is somewhat different from the one four years ago because of the Massachusetts court ruling and its effect on states.
www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-07-11-cheney-gay_x.htm   (668 words)

  
 Lynne Cheney integral part of the Cheney-Bush ticket - July 25, 2000
Lynne Cheney is an outspoken conservative -- whether addressing the Republican National Convention, as an author or co-host of CNN's Sunday Crossfire for three years.
But Cheney made her biggest mark when she was chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1986 to 1993.
Lynne Cheney was appointed chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities by Presidents Reagan and Bush.
edition.cnn.com /2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/07/25/lynne.cheney/index.html   (859 words)

  
 Lynne Cheney
While at NEH, Cheney extended Bennett's crusade against politically correct education, staffing the upper echelons of the NEH with neo-conservative supported and opposing NEH funding of nontraditional approaches to the humanities.
Cheney departed with the election of Bill Clinton, prompting conservative donors and grantees to refocus some of their strategies, particularly in the funding arena.
Lynne Cheney has been on a mission for over a decade now to try to clamp down on dissent on campus, and to clamp down on multiculturalist perspectives in education.
www.mediatransparency.org /personprofile.php?personID=53   (373 words)

  
 Lynne Cheney - SourceWatch
The Cheney's daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, is Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and Coordinator for Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiatives and heads the Iran-Syria Operations Group.
Galeropia.org: Sisters: "This is the transcription of the Lynne Cheney Sisters blog, devoted to spreading the wonderful book to all those who want it, but cannot find it in any of the used bookstores which were supported to meet their need for it." (125-pdf).
Lynne Cheney will be able to take her shots at the entertainment industry before Congress in what's shaping up to be the season's biggest gangbang," Salon, September 11, 2000.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Lynne_Cheney   (1595 words)

  
 Vice President of the United States - Richard B. Cheney
Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on January 30, 1941 and grew up in Casper, Wyoming.
Cheney was elected to serve as the state's sole Congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Cheney married his high school sweetheart, Lynne Ann Vincent, in 1964, and they have grown daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, three granddaughters and two grandsons.
www.whitehouse.gov /vicepresident   (597 words)

  
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Cheney's just-released children's book is her third, When Washington Crossed the Delaware.
Cheney recently had the task of hitting the campaign trail with the vice president.
Cheney was also asked about whether this Thanksgiving was special to her in any way.
www.cbn.com /cbnnews/news/041123f.asp   (946 words)

  
 Lynne Cheney blasts Gore comments on media violence - September 18, 2000, 2000
Cheney, former chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows to dismiss Vice President Al Gore's promise to regulate the industry if it takes no steps to limit violent and sexually explicit movies, games and music marketed to children within six months.
Cheney is right in saying that it is a difficult situation because of the First Amendment," he said.
Cheney said violence in music is just as big a problem as violence in movies, a point she raised during a Senate committee hearing this week.
archives.cnn.com /2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/09/18/lynne.cheney/index.html   (831 words)

  
 Madame Cheney's cultural revolution - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But now, unelected and unappointed, Lynne Cheney is back in charge at the National Endowment for the Humanities, operating without that pesky "mandate from the voters" through handpicked surrogates in key positions.
In charge of day-to-day operations is deputy director Lynne Munson, who was Cheney's special assistant at the NEH from 1990 through 1992 and later followed Cheney to her fellowship at the American Enterprise Institute.
During her chairmanship of the agency from 1986 through 1992, Cheney was known for killing research projects deemed offensive to conservative orthodoxy, scribbling "not for me!" on proposals dealing with race, gender discrimination or the legacy of slavery.
dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2004/08/26/lynne_cheney/index_np.html   (721 words)

  
 Right-Web | Individual Profile | Lynne V. Cheney
Lynne Cheney, the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney and former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a hard-line conservative who works at the American Enterprise Institute.
Even before President George W. Bush was elected some of Lynne Cheney’s influential friends were calling for her appointment as Secretary of Education.
Cheney also has a history of criticizing colleges for shifting the focus of courses to global culture and history.
rightweb.irc-online.org /ind/cheney_l/cheney_l.php   (427 words)

  
 Lynne Cheney
Lynne Vincent Cheney is the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, but she is as politically active as he.
As Second Lady, Cheney objected to a booklet printed for parents to teach their children US history; 300,000 copies were destroyed.
Cheney is the author of several novels, including Sisters, a 1981 western with a titillating lesbian subplot.
www.nndb.com /people/294/000024222   (509 words)

  
 Lynne Cheney Biography: GeorgeWBush.org: Official Site to Re-Select Bush/Cheney in 2004!
Cheney believes that a system of education that fails to focus exclusively on flag-waving and how Christopher Columbus discovered America is complicit in nurturing a generation of USA-haters whose collective dream future involves being anally gang penetrated by a Godless army of Osama bin Laden clones.
Cheney has invested tremendous time and energy over the years into authoring all manner of materials to help real Americans identify the many foul and odious techniques that liberals employ to corrupt our Godly country.
Cheney has also written columns and articles for numerous publications, appeared on hundreds of television programs in the role of a partisan pundit, and can personally attest to the profound joy found at the bottom of every bottle of Clairol® Platinum Supernova™.
2004.georgewbush.org /bios/lynnecheney.asp   (462 words)

  
 Lynne Cheney touts books for children - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lynne Cheney invited 33 D.C. schoolchildren to her home yesterday to talk about the importance of courage.
Cheney introduced a list of 15 books on the theme of freedom that leading historians, authors, and librarians say should be on every youngster's reading list.
Cheney read the children Langston Hughes' poem "Dreams," with its famous line, "Hold fast to dreams." She asked the children what dreams they have.
www.washingtontimes.com /national/20030603-115716-7328r.htm   (512 words)

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