Doug writes: Yale has > the track record so that's not an empty promise.<
when I was an u'grad in the early 1970s, I saw this booklet that the alumni association put out, bragging about the big achievements of Yale men (since Yale women had just started to exist, except in some grad programs). In order to make their track record look good, they combined the categories of President and Vice-President of the US. After all, at the time, the only Yalie President had been William Howard Taft, whose only achievement was as poster child for Weight Watchers. (I'm sure they double-counted him, since he was also a Senator and the Head Supreme for awhile.)
Anyway, it seems like the alumni association was embarrassed by being forced to engage in such deception, so that they've arranged for Yalies to run the White House a lot since then (Ford, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II).
Jim
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