Barack and President George W. Bush Cousins?

Barack Obama and President Bush are 10th cousins, once removed, linked by Samuel Hinckley of Cape Cod, who died in 1662. Does that name, Hinckley, sound familiar?
When John Warnock Hinckley, Jr., attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C. on March 30, 1981, the Houston Post reported that Hinckley is the son of one of George H. W. Bush’s political and financial supporters in his 1980 presidential primary campaign against Ronald Reagan. His elder brother, Scott Hinckley, and Vice President Bush’s son, Neil Bush, had a dinner appointment scheduled for the next day.
Now we learn that the Hinckley family are more than friends — they may be cousins — cousins to both the Bush family and Barack Obama’s family on his mother’s side.
Obama’s distant presidential cousins include President George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman and James Madison.
The New England Historic Genealogical Society released their genealogy report after tracing the family trees of the presidential candidates. It is a fact that Barack Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, is related to several presidents across both party lines. Founded in 1845, the New England Historic Genealogical Society is the oldest and largest nonprofit genealogical organization in the country.
Obama is also related to other politicians, such as Vice President Dick Cheney, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and Civil War General Robert E. Lee. The vice president’s wife, Lynne Cheney, announced her discovery while discussing her new book, Blue Skies, No Fences, on MSNBC.
When asked if she would support Hillary Rodham Clinton because she is a woman, Lynne Cheney said, “I have to admit to a certain bias here … Dick and Barack Obama are eighth cousins.”
Mrs. Cheney said that it was “an amazing American story that one ancestor … could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths.”
Then asked if she supported Obama she quickly said, “No.”
According to Chicago Sun-Times, “The Obama camp made light of the family ties. ‘Every family has a black sheep,’ said spokeswoman Jen Psaki, with tongue firmly planted in cheek.”