Career
Lynne Cheney served as chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1986 to 1993. In 1995, she founded American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a think tank devoted to reforming higher education.
Lynne Cheney is a senior fellow in education and culture at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. She also 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.
Lynne Cheney served on Lockheed Corporation's board of directors from 1994 to 2001. She gave up the $120,000-a-year position shortly before her husband's inauguration. Cheney served on the board's Finance, and Nominating and Corporate Governance committees.
In 2000, she was mentioned as a possible conservative female pick for Republican Vice Presidential nominee on the George W. Bush ticket. The appointed head of the nominating committee was her husband, Dick Cheney, then the CEO of Halliburton, who eventually emerged as Bush's choice.
She repeatedly spoke out against violent and sexually explicit lyrics in popular music, including those of rapper Eminem (Marshall Bruce Mathers III), picking up on an issue that was originally made famous by former Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper. Lynne Cheney also criticized video game makers for similar content.
On an October 10, 2007, episode of The Daily Show, Lynne Cheney stated her opposition to a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
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