Michael,<\/p>\n
On hearing that he is an 8th cousin of Dick Cheney, Barack Obama said, tongue in cheek, “Every family has a black sheep.”<\/p>\n
Lynne Cheney tells about the relationship<\/a>.<\/p>\n The details<\/a> of the ancestry were written up in the Bowie Blade News:<\/p>\n An interesting side note–the place where Obama’s and Cheney’s common ancestor, Mareen Duvall, lived was the Marietta Mansion<\/a> near Bowie, MD. Our daughter Katie worked there for many years as a docent, but I don’t think anyone at the Mansion, including her, knew about this curious relationship until now.<\/p>\n Obama himself knew that some of his white ancestors owned slaves, but not the exact “tortured, tangled” history.<\/p>\n –rakkity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michael, On hearing that he is an 8th cousin of Dick Cheney, Barack Obama said, tongue in cheek, “Every family has a black sheep.” Lynne Cheney tells about the relationship. The details of the ancestry were written up in the … Continue reading