14 Facts About Lynne Cheney

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Lynne Ann Cheney is an American author, scholar, and former talk show host.

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Lynne Cheney's mother, Edna Lolita, became a deputy sheriff, and her father, Wayne Edwin Vincent, was an engineer.

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Lynne Cheney received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature with highest honors from Colorado College.

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Lynne Cheney's dissertation was entitled "Matthew Arnold's Possible Perfection: A Study of the Kantian Strain in Arnold's Poetry".

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Lynne Cheney served as the sixth chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1986 to 1993.

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Lynne Cheney is a senior fellow in education and culture at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

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Lynne Cheney serves as a director of Reader's Digest Association, Inc From 1995 to 1998, Cheney served as the co-host of the Sunday edition of CNN's Crossfire, replacing Tony Snow.

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Lynne Cheney served on Lockheed Corporation's board of directors from 1994 to 2001.

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Lynne Cheney gave up the $120,000-a-year position shortly before her husband's inauguration.

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Lynne Cheney had served on the Lockheed board's finance, and nominating and corporate governance committees.

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Lynne Cheney followed with another opinion, The End of History, Part II in 2015.

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Lynne Cheney has one brother, Mark Vincent, who lives in Wyoming with his wife, Linda.

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Lynne Cheney herself acknowledged in a 2015 interview that she had considered running for the senate seat.

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Lynne Cheney is the author or co-author of several books.