Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, has had a lifelong interest in history and has spent much of her professional life writing and speaking about the importance of knowing and teaching history well.
From 1986 to 1993, she served as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, where she published American Memory, a report that warned about schools’ failure to transmit knowledge of the past to future generations. Mrs. Cheney wrote, “A system of education that fails to foster memory of the past denies its students a great deal: the satisfactions of mature thought, an attachment to enduring concerns, a perspective on human existence.”
She is currently a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she emphasizes the importance of knowing our country’s history. “One of the most important lessons we can learn is that freedom is not always guaranteed,” she says. “This realization should make the liberty we have all the more valuable to us, and all the more worth defending.”
Mrs. Cheney has written historical articles for a variety of publications on topics ranging from women’s suffrage in the West to how Americans celebrated the country’s centennial.
Lynne Cheney Parents: Edna Lolita Vincent, Wayne Edwin Vincent
Lynne Ann Vincent was born in Casper, Wyoming on August 14, 1941.
Her father, Wayne Edwin Vincent, was an engineer, and her mother, Edna Lolita, rose through the ranks to become a deputy sheriff.
She was raised as a Presbyterian, but after marrying Dick Cheney, she converted to the Methodist faith. She descends from Mormon pioneers and has ancestors from Denmark, Sweden, England, Ireland, and Wales.
Source: Kingaziz.com