Apr
19
Lynne Cheney, the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, delighted brand-new American citizens on Tuesday (17APR07) by participating in a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives in Washington DC.
The former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research delivered the keynote address before giving the new citizens their Certificates of Citizenship, along with signed copies of The Citizen’s Almanac.
Cheney says, “It’s a joyful experience to celebrate citizenship with our country’s newest citizens and a pleasure to be able to present them The Citizen’s Almanac, a fine compendium of founding documents, classic speeches, and patriotic songs and verses.”
USCIS Deputy Director Jonathan “Jock” Scharfen says, “These naturalization ceremonies are defining moments for the more than 700,000 new citizens who each year raise their right hand and swear allegiance to the United States of America. They are reminders that both native born and naturalized citizens are bound together by a common civic identity that transcends cultural and ethnic differences uniting us all as Americans.”