{"id":2101,"date":"2004-02-16T15:14:32","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T19:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/02\/16\/whats-a-harvard-man-to-do\/"},"modified":"2004-02-16T15:14:32","modified_gmt":"2004-02-16T19:14:32","slug":"whats-a-harvard-man-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/16\/whats-a-harvard-man-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s a Harvard Man to Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2677'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/Kennedi.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"190\" align=\"left\">These<br \/>\n        are trying times for the men and women from Harvard who follow Presidential<br \/>\n        Politics as a collegiate sport. Four of the<br \/>\n        last six Presidents have been Yale men. Both of the Bushes, of course,<br \/>\n        but don&#8217;t forget both Bill Clinton and Gerald Ford graduated from Yale<br \/>\n        Law School. And at this point, with Bush v Kerry looking increasingly<br \/>\n        unavoidable, it&#8217;s about to become 5 out of 7!<\/p>\n<p>The degree to which this fact is responsible for the deplorable state<br \/>\n        of the nation is open to debate, but it is indisputable that the influence<br \/>\n        of New Haven in Washington is at a historical high.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/gw_bush.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"189\" align=\"right\">Egads! The Eli&#8217;s are catching up! Over the past 228 years <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.harvard.edu\/guide\/students\/stu5.html\">7<br \/>\n        Harvard grads<\/a> have gone on to the White House; the two Adamses, Rutherford<br \/>\n        B. Hayes, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, JFK (the original) and &#8212;- George Bush!<br \/>\n        A true switch hitter, the current President is the only man to appear<br \/>\n        on BOTH lists, Yale undergrad and Harvard Business School. Go figure&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2004\/02\/16\/yale_holds_tie_to_presidency\/\">the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>photos from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.harvard.edu\/guide\/students\/stu5.html\">Harvard Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are trying times for the men and women from Harvard who follow Presidential Politics as a collegiate sport. Four of the last six Presidents have been Yale men. Both of the Bushes, of course, but don&#8217;t forget both Bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/16\/whats-a-harvard-man-to-do\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}