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Cheney to address 'very receptive' BYU crowd

Associated Press

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Vice President Dick Cheney will give the commencement speech at Brigham Young University on April 26.

It will be one of only two graduation addresses by Cheney this spring, said spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride, who declined to identify the other school.

"It turns out that in 2006, President Bush was invited and unable to attend," McBride said from Washington. "We reached out this year to the BYU board of trustees. They were excited at the suggestion and sent a formal letter of invitation."

BYU is operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is in Utah County, very friendly territory for conservative politicians, 40 miles south of Salt Lake City.

Cheney will find a "very receptive and very hospitable" audience, predicted Kelly Patterson, director of BYU's Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy.

— Associated Press
USA Today
2007-03-26


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