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Lynne Cheney, the vice president’s wife, revealed this tantalising bit of American political trivia during a television interview yesterday.
She said she uncovered the long-ago ties between the two while researching her ancestry for her latest book, Blue Skies, No Fences, a memoir about growing up in Wyoming.
"This is such an amazing American story that one ancestor … could be responsible down the family lines for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick’s and Barack Obama," Lynne Cheney told MSNBC.
A spokesman for Obama, who wants to be the first black US president, offered a tongue-in-cheek response.
"Every family has a black sheep," said spokesman Bill Burton.
