[Plutarch]

I saw the same quality in this man, the first time I met him, in New Haven in 1963.

If he was so insufferable, why did you tap him for Skull & Bones?

[Congressman Billybob]

I, meaning me personally, had nothing to do with tapping John Kerry for Skull & Bones. Usually, there are two individuals who are tapped because of the positions they hold on campus. Claiming them burnishes the image of S&B, doncha know.

Those two positions are Chairman of the Yale Daily News and President of the Yale Political Union. My impression of Kerry was that he choose to join the Liberal Party in the Union because it was the largest, giving him the best change of becoming President, giving him the best chance of being tapped by S&B. In planning his social climbing, Kerry did think that far ahead.

But rest assured that at no time did a majority of Kerry's peers at Yale support him in any substantive way for any position of any importance.

John / Billybob