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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (45825)	10/13/2000 5:52:24 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Well, Rambi, you got some of your facts about St. Albans School correct, but not all the facts, as I can attest, being a St. Albans graduate (class of '53). So here's the rest of the story. Current STA alumni holding office include: Congressman Charles Bass, R-NH Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., D-TN Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-NJ Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., D-IL State Atty. General Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI Former office holders include Tom Kean, Governor, NJ (R). As an STA alumnus, I can categorically state that STA isn't nearly as elitist or exclusive as Bush's school, Andover, and the like. STA benefits from its Washington, DC location by being available to a very diverse student body that includes both minorities and a very large number of students from the diplomatic community. STA is elitist in the sense that its number one priority is to get its students into the best colleges and universities, and it does that quite successfully because of the quality of its teaching staff and the demands made on the students. George W. would very likely have been unable to continue at St. Albans, since they require a lot of homework -- 4 or more hours a night is not unusual. Since you probably have it in for any St. Albans alumnus, I might as well add fuel to the fire. Alumni also include Gore Vidal (distantly related to Al Gore's family), and Judge Pennfield Jackson, a Reagan Republican appointee who presided over the Microsoft antitrust trial and who ruled that Microsoft violated the antitrust laws. Then there's Evan Bayh, Senator from Indiana and former governor of Indiana; and Josh Bolten, policy director for none other than George W. Bush. Well, Rambi, Bush has got to get the details right from someone, and it might just as well be a St. Albans alumnus. Bolton, in a recent interview, said that the training he got in writing at St. Albans was the perfect training for "the clear, concise writing that is required in [his] communications with Governor Bush." Finally, there's Tom Liddy, a Phoenix, Arizona attorney and STA alumnus, running for Congress (Republican, of course) with some help from his dad, Gordon Liddy, of Watergate fame... Eat your heart out! Art