| Lynne Cheney  AKA Lynne Ann Vincent
Born: 14-Aug-1941
Birthplace: Casper, WY
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: First Lady
Party Affiliation: Republican Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Wife of US Vice President Dick Cheney Lynne Vincent Cheney is the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, but she is as politically active as he. She has said that the first time he lobbied for votes was to make her homecoming queen her senior year at Natrona County High School. She won. Former classmate and future Wyoming Secretary of State Joseph Mayer said Cheney (Lynne, not Dick) "was probably the brightest person in our class".
In 1986 President Ronald Reagan appointed Lynne Cheney to the National Endowment for Humanities. At the time, the National Endowment for the Arts was caught up in a controversy regarding photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, and Cheney deftly steered the NEH into less disruptive areas. She had the rules rewritten for grants, causing complaints from professors that she had imposed her political views on the agency. The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton actually pulled out of two grants, refusing to give up "academic autonomy and integrity". She left the NEH in 1993, after Bill Clinton became president.
In a 2000 interview with ABC's Cokie Roberts, when Roberts brought up Mary Cheney, the Cheneys' lesbian daughter, Cheney simply lied. "Mary has never declared such a thing," she said. "I would like to say that I'm appalled at the media interest in one of my daughters. They are bright; they are hardworking; they are decent. And I simply am not going to talk about their personal lives. And I'm surprised, Cokie, that even you would want to bring it up on this program." At the time, Mary Cheney had been "out" for approximately ten years, and she was working for Coors Brewing Company as their official "liaison to the gay community."
As Second Lady, Cheney objected to a booklet printed for parents to teach their children US history; 300,000 copies were destroyed. She has written numerous patriotic historical books for children, and is quoted as saying that in public schools, students learn "more about Joseph McCarthy than George Washington, more about the Indian chief Speckled Snake than Thomas Edison".
Cheney is the author of several novels, including Sisters, a 1981 western with a titillating lesbian subplot. Her 1988 novel Body Politic is about the death of a US Vice President in his girlfriend's "carnal embrace", and how the White House, desperate to avoid scandal, hides his death. Body Politic ends with the Vice President's wife becoming the new Vice President.
An insightful review of Sisters reveals:
At the end of the day, folks, Lynne Cheney is just not about sex; she's all about the money and the power. Specifically, this novel about how the smart thing for a woman to do is to get her hands on as much money and power as she can have without exposing herself to the dangers that threaten all the women who challenge the capitalist/patriarchal system.
Father: Wayne Edwin Vincent (reclamation bureau worker, b. 3-Jul-1915)
Mother: Edna Lolita Lybyer (deputy sheriff, b. 8-Apr-1919, m. 22-Nov-1940, d. 24-May-1973)
Husband: Dick Cheney (b. 30-Jan-1941, m. 29-Aug-1964)
Daughter: Mary Cheney (lesbian activist, worked for Coors)
Daughter: Liz Cheney (high-level State Department bureaucrat)
High School: Natrona County High School, Casper, WY
University: BA English, Colorado College
University: MA, University of Colorado
University: PhD, University of Wisconsin
National Endowment for the Humanities (1986-93)
American Council of Trustees and Alumni Co-Founder (1995)
American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow
Bush-Cheney 2000
George W. Bush for President
Independent Women's Forum
Kay Bailey Hutchison for Senate
Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority
Phi Beta Kappa Society Colorado College, 1962
Dubya Ranch Hand Jan-2001
Funeral: Katharine Graham (2001)
Official Website:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/mrscheney/
Author of books:
Sisters (1981, novel, Signet Canadian Paperback, lesbian themed)
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