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Lynne Cheney: Witty, Articulate, and Successful |
| Section: LIFE / PERSONALITY |
| Author: Jeanne Viner Bell |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 3,264 Words, 19,441 Characters |
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Lynne Cheney is the first chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities to have served more than one term. These days, she and her husband, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, are spoken of as Washington's most powerful "power couple" next to the Bushes. The Cheneys don't particularly see themselves as a "power couple," however.
Lynne Cheney identifies with the humanities. Speaking of the war in the Middle East, she remarked recently that one of her friends had called her when the conflict was over. "He said I should look at Shakespeare's Henry V, act 3, scene 8, in which the triumph at Agincourt is detailed. That battle, like this war, was so amazing in terms of the losses on the winning side being low, and in terms of the kind of national spirit that came from it. That was a n...
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...gry is someone not living up to an agreement, or being duplicitous. It is a source of great irritation. When you have a position of power, it's important to look for people who will tell you the truth."
What's next after NEH? Says Cheney, "I've never thought that calculating the next step in my career would be worth the time I spent doing it. Our lives have taken such unexpected turns."
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