JFK at Yale

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p><a href=“http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkyalecommencement.htm[/url]”>http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkyalecommencement.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>JFK at princeton:</p>

<p><a href=“http://etcweb1.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/kennedy_john.html[/url]”>http://etcweb1.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/kennedy_john.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p><a href=“http://www.jfklibrary.org/jfk_biography.html[/url]”>http://www.jfklibrary.org/jfk_biography.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>JFK at Harvard: lived in Weld his freshman year and in Winthrop House as an upperclassman.</p>

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<p>… and later, while President, served on the Board of Overseers.</p>

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<p>“With Harvard behind him, JFK briefly attended Stanford Business School, and, along with most Americans of his age, registered for the draft, in October 1940. His number was called, but he used his status as a student to defer entry into the military until summer 1941. Meanwhile, he left Stanford and took a rather aimless trip through South America in the spring of 1941.”</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/jfk/section2.rhtml[/url]”>http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/jfk/section2.rhtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>He once spent the night in Ann Arbor.</p>

<p><a href=“U-M Weblogin - Stale Request”>U-M Weblogin - Stale Request;

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<p>yes, and he probably slept with different women in all these places.</p>

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<p>Hooray for Stanford!</p>

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<p>i don’t mean to sound stupid, but what is this?</p>

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<p>He was first slated to go to Princeton before the war, and he took a year at the London School of Economics when he got back before Harvard. Well traveled, to say the least.</p>

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<p>He attended Harvard for 4 years and graduated with an AB degree. His senior thesis, published as a book called “While England Slept”, won a Pulitzer Prize, I think.</p>

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<p>No, it was his work “Profiles in Courage” that earned the Pulitzer Prize.</p>

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<p>“Kennedy enrolled at Harvard in 1936, where he was a cum laude graduate of the Class of 1940. His senior thesis, on England’s military unpreparedness had been based on his experiences in London and a 6-month turn as his Ambassador father’s secretary, and later the thesis was expanded into his award-winning, best selling book, While England Slept.”</p>

<p>SOME award, I guess.</p>

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<p>JFK’s first book was “While England Slept”, but “Profiles in Courage” later won the Pulitzer for him.</p>

<p>JFK was actually a fairly talented writer. He could have made a career of it. His political opponents used to try to tear him down by claiming that his daddy hired ghost writers to write for him. But the original drafts of the “While England Slept” in his own handwriting with cross-outs and edits are still in the archives at Harvard. Apparently he didn’t need ghost writers.</p>

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<p>“[Why England Slept] was originally intended to be no more than a college thesis and is not considered to be particularly well written (was rated as a magna cum laude by Professor Henry A. Yeomans and as a cum laude plus by Professor Carl J. Friedrich). However Kennedy’s father, Joseph Kennedy, always keen to elevate his sons’ reputation for future political standing, pulled strings with his publishing contacts to secure its release and then purchased some 30,000 copies, which were stored, unread, in the attic of the family’s home in Hyannisport.”</p>

<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_England_Slept[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_England_Slept&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>"Kennedy was an average student at Harvard, never earning an A, but mostly B’s and C’s, with a single D in a sophomore history course. He graduated cum laude from Harvard with a degree in international affairs in June 1940. "</p>

<p><a href=“John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia”>John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia;

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<p>Likewise, there are many who suspect that “Profiles In Courage” was ghost-written by Ted Sorenson.</p>

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<p>Like I said:</p>

<p>“His political opponents used to try to tear him down by claiming that his daddy hired ghost writers to write for him.”</p>

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<p>It was a family trait. Brother Teddy once hired someone to “ghostwrite” a Spanish exam for him. Harvard required him to take a year off, and this resulted in an invitation to join the army. Teddy spent his “gap year” guarding SHAPE headquarters in Paris.</p>

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<p>At least with Teddy there was clear evidence of his cheating. The only “evidence” I’ve ever heard of about Ted Sorenson writing “Profiles in Courage” is people who didn’t like JFK saying it was so. They’ve said it so many times that it has entered popular belief - all with no evidence.</p>