[Kenny Bunk]

He also doubted whether he was legitimately an editor on the Harvard Law Review, because if he was, he would be the first and only editor of an Ivy League law review to never be published while in school (publication is or was a requirement).

You are correct. He was PRESIDENT of the Harvard Law Review. That is quite an accomplishment. However, the President of the Law Review is an administrative post, not an editorial one, and in the rarefied halls of Harvard Law, nowhere as prestigious as being the Editor. Publishing articles, or editing them is not part of the job. Scheduling meetings, printing the journal, meetings, and more meetings, handled by a staff, is the job, which is actually more of a title.

To give old what's-his-name his due, he is reputed to have handled the minimal tasks required fairly well.

N.B.: One may be President of the Harvard Law Review without being a Natural Born Citizen.

[El Gato]

old what's-his-name

Normally that's a way of saying "I can't recall his name", but in this case ... it's more like "I have no clue what his name really is, was, or might be in the future, and neither does anyone else"