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PERSON PROFILE

Lynne Cheney

[From a report by NCRP]Lynne V. Cheney [From a report by NCRP]

...Once the idea of "political correctness" became fixed in the public mind, funders supported both the individual and institutional efforts launched by political conservatives to redirect public and private sector dollars from "liberal" higher education purposes toward conservative ones. They had the support of Lynne V. Cheney, a current (1997) grantee who served as [William] Bennett's successor at NEH between 1986 and 1993.

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.

-NCRP, The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations


Here's a little bit about Lynne and her high school sweethheart, Dick, from BushRunningMate.com

"...His high school sweetheart, Lynne, whom he married in 1965, completed her doctorate. She would serve as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under President Reagan, and she would become a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank..."

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Frank Rich
New York Times
September 22, 2000

No Business Like Show Business

"...Mr. Bush was also sabotaged by his own self-immolating strategists, who sent their personal Dr. Laura stand-in, Lynne Cheney, as the ticket's anti-Hollywood emissary to Congress and political talk shows. With characteristic shrillness and selective indignation, Ms. Cheney condemned Eminem (though, curiously, without any reference to his homophobic lyrics) and a five-year-old Miramax movie seen only in art houses ("Kids") while scrupulously avoiding mention of more recent violent ("Fight Club") and lubricious ("There's Something About Mary") fare marketed to kids by the conservative fat cat Rupert Murdoch."

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MORE LINKS

LA Times
October 7, 2004

Booklet That Upset Mrs. Cheney Is History

The Department of Education destroys 300,000 parent guides to remove references to national standards

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TomPaine.com
November 14, 2001

Lynne Cheney's Free Speech Blacklist

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.

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The Nation
October 1, 2000

"Hard to Muzzle"

The Return of Lynne Cheney

The right-wing pugilist of the eighties now shares the campaign limelight

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Timothy Noah
Slate.com
July 23, 2000

Cheney's Lynne Problem

"...By then, Cheney had acquired an almost Stalinist resolve to kill off national standards at all cost. She proved to be such a transparent phony that sympathetic panel critics like Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and John Patrick Diggins had to denounce her..."

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