Word: john
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...John Dockery '67 may very well be the only man on earth with a Harvard class ring and a Super Bowl ring. And there's a reason for that, the former sideline broadcaster says--a Harvard degree is not much of an asset in the National Football League...
...question of whether to trumpet or downplay one's Harvard ties when running for office comes up "all the time," according to Professor Philip R. Sharp of the John F. Kennedy School of Government...
Where the Roosevelts risked being branded elitists by going to Harvard, Will said John F. Kennedy '40 derived needed legitimacy from his affiliation with the school...
...connection to the University gave John Kennedy a certain cache, particularly when he was running for Congress," Will said. "He was able to meld his Brahmin schooling with the ethnic Irish element of his background...
After ascending to the presidency, Kennedy, who was also a Crimson editor, recruited a number of Harvard scholars, notably Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith and Robert S. McNamara, into his administration...