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Lynne Cheney served on [[Lockheed Corporation]]'s board of directors from 1994 to 2001, a $120,000-a-year post which she gave up shortly before her husband's inauguration<ref>[http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2001/01/01/daily19.html] Washington Business Journal: VP's wife steps down from Lockheed board</ref>. She served on the board's Finance, and Nominating and Corporate Governance committees<ref>[http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=5968] Village Voice: USA - Inside Lockheed's $250 Billion Pentagon Connection</ref>. | Lynne Cheney served on [[Lockheed Corporation]]'s board of directors from 1994 to 2001, a $120,000-a-year post which she gave up shortly before her husband's inauguration<ref>[http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2001/01/01/daily19.html] Washington Business Journal: VP's wife steps down from Lockheed board</ref>. She served on the board's Finance, and Nominating and Corporate Governance committees<ref>[http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=5968] Village Voice: USA - Inside Lockheed's $250 Billion Pentagon Connection</ref>. | ||
| + | She is also a well known author of Sisters. It includes passages like this: | ||
| + | The women who embraced in the wagon were Adam and Eve crossing a dark cathedral stage — no, Eve and Eve, loving one another as they would not be able to once they ate of the fruit and knew themselves as they truly were. She felt curiously moved, curiously envious of them. She had never to this moment thought Eden a particularly attractive paradise, based as it was on naiveté, but she saw that the women in the cart had a passionate, loving intimacy forever closed to her. How strong it made them. What comfort it gave. | ||
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Lynne Cheney is the wife of U.S. vice president Dick Cheney. She has published several books. She has two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary.
Career
Lynne Cheney served on Lockheed Corporation's board of directors from 1994 to 2001, a $120,000-a-year post which she gave up shortly before her husband's inauguration[1]. She served on the board's Finance, and Nominating and Corporate Governance committees[2].
She is also a well known author of Sisters. It includes passages like this:
The women who embraced in the wagon were Adam and Eve crossing a dark cathedral stage — no, Eve and Eve, loving one another as they would not be able to once they ate of the fruit and knew themselves as they truly were. She felt curiously moved, curiously envious of them. She had never to this moment thought Eden a particularly attractive paradise, based as it was on naiveté, but she saw that the women in the cart had a passionate, loving intimacy forever closed to her. How strong it made them. What comfort it gave.
