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...Most Bizarre Tip of the Hat: Tom Brokaw, at about 2 a.m., doing a dead-solid imitation of David Brinkley saying, "I thought I'd be out somewhere having a lemon squash and a glass of milk at this hour...
According to Brinkley, would-be presidents climb the political ladder through one of two models. The first: an elite background. Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson are all examples of this, as are Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904, John F. Kennedy '40 and Bush...
Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman, on the other hand, are examples of the second model--"ambition to rise above modest origins," Brinkley says...
...candidates fall into these two categories, Brinkley adds, and some politicians of the second type also manage to get connected early on (like Clinton at Georgetown, Oxford and Yale...
...important to remember that at least as many presidents--including postwar presidents--come from very modest circumstances (and non-elite educations) as come from the kinds of backgrounds represented in this year's race," Brinkley says...