Warm welcome for Cheney
20,000 cheer him repeatedly; he hails Y. accomplishments
Camera flashes blinked furiously around the packed arena as Cheney and President Hinckley entered. The flashes grew particularly intense when the lights went down at the beginning of Cheney's speech.
Cheney returned the adulation.
"Thank you for the warm welcome to Provo, Utah, home of one of the finest universities in the United States of America," he said, later adding that "BYU is a place of faith and kindness and compassion."
The advice portion of the commencement speech mirrored messages Cheney has delivered at other commencements over the past five years, but first Cheney called President Hinckley "a distinguished American" as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He also drew shouts of approval by noting BYU was ranked No. 1 on the Princeton Review's "stone-cold sober" list every year the graduates were at the university. And he celebrated BYU's victories this school year over rival University of Utah in basketball and especially football, a game he said was won with "Jonny Harline's answered prayer."
Cheney also mentioned that two of his wife Lynne's great-grandparents graduated from Brigham Young Academy before it became BYU, and that her great-great-grandmother joined a train of 50 wagons in 1848 to travel to Utah "to make the desert bloom."
He told the graduates to watch for opportunities and people who will point them in unexpected but fulfilling directions, much like a visit to Congressman Donald Rumsfeld in the 1960s led Cheney away from a career as a professor and into nearly 40 years of public service.
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