On Thursday, I was honored to be seated at the head table for the National Press Club luncheon featuring Lynne Cheney. The wife of Vice President Dick Cheney discussed her new book, “Blue Skies, No Fences”, a memoir about growing up in the years after World War II and the 1950s.

Shortly before the program began, a suprise guest joined us at the head table - Vice President Dick Cheney. Go to C-SPAN to watch a clip of the event.

Not that the whole room was press. There were more than a few Republicans and friends and relatives of the Second Couple, including their daughters, Liz and Mary. It made club President Jerry Zremski’s usual warning to the TV audience that applause may be coming from guests “and not necessarily from members of the working press” that much more appropriate.
But even many of the press members on stage were relatively friendly: NBC’s Pete Williams, a former Pentagon reporter and native of Casper, Wyo., Chris Berry, general manager of conservative talk station WMAL, and conservative journalist Jeff Gannon.