sweetheart was lynn vincent. >> how did you meet? >> in junior high, i knew who she was, but she didn't know who i was. >> but he was new in town. >> i was new in town. lynn was the star in the class, the brightest student, the head baton twirler and so forth. i finally got up the nerve to ask her out. >> and i said, you're kidding! >> she did. but eventually, we worked it out. >> a natural leader, a hard worker and a strong athlete, young cheney showed promise and received a scholarship to yale. >> it was sort of a clash of cultures. i think he liked the intellectual stimulation of yule. but in other ways, it was so different from what he had seen and experienced as a child in nebraska and wyoming. >> steven hayes wrote a biography of chain ne2007. >> he focused on the social aspects of yale, in addition to the studies, probably more than his studies.