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Bush's cross-country odyssey-- from Texas to the Ivy League and back--bears a certain resemblance to the migration of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, the first Harvard man to win the presidency in this century...
Like Bush, Roosevelt fled from the East after completing his studies...
...next Roosevelt and Harvard alumnus to occupy the Oval Office "was regarded as a traitor to his class," according to Will...
...that sense, things have gotten worse. Roosevelt didn't know who rejected him from the Porcellian, but he and everyone else knew why: that person, whoever he was, just didn't like Roosevelt. No one would have pretended there was any other reason...
...Franklin Roosevelt would know better...