Dick cheney barack obama related ancestry

Barack Obama often jokes in his campaign speeches about a genealogical survey last year that found he is a distant cousin of Dick Cheney. Now there is more bad news for Obama:

Barack Obama - Dick Cheney - Ancestry and Genealogy - Washington - The New York Times

Obama's family tree expanded to include the Bushes and the Pitts

The story sent new ripples through the political world last week when Lynne Cheney repeated Mr.

Lynne Cheney, the vice president's wife, revealed this tantalizing bit of political trivia during a television interview Tuesday.

Lynne Cheney said she had discovered while doing family research for a new book that her husband and the Illinois senator were eighth cousins. She said she traced a common ancestor of the two men to be a 17th century immigrant from France.

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Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are cousins - Telegraph

Obama is sworn into the Senate by his eighth cousin, Vice President Cheney. Cheney said that in the course of researching her husband's genealogy for her new book, Blue Skies, No Fences, she discovered that the two public figures share an ancestor eight generations ago.

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