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Nine Presidential Candidates Who Weren't Great Students in College
Mental Floss ^ | 09/22/2011 | Ethan Trex

Posted on 09/22/2011 2:58:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind
What about Bill Clinton? Not some contrived group of numbers, but, his real grades.........has anyone seen them?

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21 posted on 09/22/2011 3:27:07 PM PDT by AwesomePossum (I have never looked this forward to a November II........)
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To: SeekAndFind
The faculty voted against an honorary degree for Nixon in 1954.

In 1961 the offer was renewed and Nixon turned Duke down.

I don't know the details, but here's the source.

When Nixon died the graduating class of the law school petitioned for a tribute at their graduation. It looks like they didn't get the moment of silence they wanted, but there was a special memorial note published in the commencement program.

I have to wonder about articles like this one. How much of an idiot or lackey does the author have to be not to at least mention that we still haven't seen Obama's grades?

22 posted on 09/22/2011 3:27:39 PM PDT by x
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To: SeekAndFind

A number of our better presidents only attended the college of hard knocks as I recall.


23 posted on 09/22/2011 3:29:43 PM PDT by reed13
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To: SeekAndFind

I would love to see a list (not just Nixon) of presidents with high grades.


24 posted on 09/22/2011 3:33:08 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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GHW Bush was Phi Beta Kappa from Yale when that still meant something, and he was married and had a child while he was working towards his degree.

His humorous self-deprecating comment should be taken for what it is and nothing more.

But you know comparing grades from the 1940s or 1960s with grades today is like comparing apples with howitzers.

The standard is totally different today, especially in the humanities and especially at institutions like Harvard and Yale.

25 posted on 09/22/2011 3:35:45 PM PDT by x
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As a Yale frosh, Kerry rang up D’s in geology

Kerry got a D in "rocks and blocks for jocks?" Geez. And I say that as a geologist. It does not get any easier.

26 posted on 09/22/2011 3:37:04 PM PDT by doodad
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To: SeekAndFind

zero didn’t even finish grade school, so how does that stack up against the field?


27 posted on 09/22/2011 3:47:41 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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Phi Beta Kappa: JQ Adams, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton.

Wilson didn't, but his school didn't have a chapter at the time.

Others -- FDR, Truman, Carter -- were made honorary members later, which isn't the same thing.

Some unsavory characters were also PBK -- Alger Hiss, Angela Davis, Alfred Kinsey, JFK's Best and Brightest, and the gang running the economy now.

Jeb Bush made it at UT, Bobby Jindal at Brown. So did a lot of Supreme Court Justices.

Franklin Pierce's friends and classmates, Hawthorne and Longfellow, made it at Bowdoin, so maybe one of them should have been elected President.

Oh and Barack Obama made it as well. Barack Sr., that is, at UHawaii.

28 posted on 09/22/2011 3:50:54 PM PDT by x
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The “AA” making up for his pathetic grades, no doubt.

It’s an open secret they put him on law review because he was, to quote Joe Biden, a magic negro.


29 posted on 09/22/2011 4:05:46 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Was he a student at all? Don’t think we’ve seen any actual record. Everyone says he was, but who knows?


30 posted on 09/22/2011 4:05:55 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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The “AA” making up for his pathetic grades, no doubt.

In fact, the quota system is precisely how he got there in the first place. Obama was "too black to fail" in the view of the leftist educrats.

31 posted on 09/22/2011 4:10:54 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: AwesomePossum

When Clinton was attending Yale Law School all grades were Pass/Fail. I’m assuming he passed.


32 posted on 09/22/2011 4:17:59 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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RE: Obama was a D+/C- student

Where did you get his record?


33 posted on 09/22/2011 4:39:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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Word is that he dropped out........that could possibly mean fail..........his records are like Os, might near devoid of sunshine.........

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34 posted on 09/23/2011 1:22:22 AM PDT by AwesomePossum (I have never looked this forward to a November II........)
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To: SeekAndFind

Kinkos in Abeline.

It may be fake, but it’s accurate.


35 posted on 09/23/2011 7:18:18 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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