Mary Cheney Quotes
I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.
Cheney, Mary. Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life. Threshold Editions, 2006.
In those days the party bosses picked the Vice Presidential nominee, and they picked Nixon. As the President got to know his running made, his dislike developed. In Nixon’s entire tenure as Vice President he was never invited to the private presidential quarters of the White House for a meeting or a social occasion. Eisenhower, who loved golf and played with many politicians of both parties and many celebrities would never play golf with Nixon. In part, these types of snubs and insults, were the forerunner of the later Nixon hatred of the American establishments that was revealed by the Nixon tapes.
Reflecting on his too-long speech at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, nominating Michael Dukakis for President:
Mary Claire Cheney is the younger daughter of Dick Cheney, the former vice president of the United States, and his wife, Lynne Cheney. She is politically conservative and is involved with a number of political action groups. She married her wife Heather Poe in 2012, and in 2013 was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.
