I went to many colleges and didn’t attend them. Maybe the speach was taken out of context? I went to West Point, several times.
speech, for your spelling nazis.
I visited a friend at the US Naval academy. So I can say I went there (?).
As my millionaire, business-owning, former divisional President said, “I’ve never attended college, but I’ve built several.”
He started changing this phrase after he and two other ranchers got together to purchase a new bull for their cows from the Animal Husbandry department of the University of Nebraska. He said, “I’ve never attended college, but I got a college-educated bull.”