A reversal of fortune?
#381: A story in the Star-Bulletin on the day he left, June 22, said Obama planned a several-weeks grand tour of mainland universities before he arrived at Harvard to study economics on a graduate faculty fellowship. The story did not mention that he had a wife and an infant son.
“A reversal of fortune?”
or a useful fib -— feigning interest in field dear to Mooney’s heart for $$ support.
Mboya (new financial allegiance? or original intentions)
LLI’s Elizabeth Mooney Kirk wrote to Tom Mboya in May 1962 to request additional funds to “sponsor Barack Obama for graduate study, preferably at Harvard.” She said she would “like to do more” to assist the young man but had two stepchildren ready for college.
Kirk’s letter worked and Obama Sr. was offered a scholarship (from Tom Mboya in Kenya) to pursue a doctorate at Harvard.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/how-could-stanl.html