“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)
LLIs 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.
Kirks 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
Kirks letter worked and Obama Sr. was offered a scholarship (from Tom Mboya in Kenya) to pursue a doctorate at Harvard.
Can that statement be confirmed? Sounds like an opinion to me, and flies in the face of the Percy Sutton assertion: