anobserver2
anobserver2's JournalHow To Fake a College Degree All the Way to the White House (FERPA, legacy admit, GHW Bush, Yale)
This true email correspondence below concerns my efforts to get the Yale University Registrar to release to me the academic transcript of a legacy-admission, the now deceased alumni, GHW Bush. Note: I have replaced my real name on this email with my DU screen name, "anobserver2"
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From: anobserver2
Date: Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 12:08 PM
Subject: Re My FOIA Request re GHW Bush/ Your reason for not releasing transcript to me
To: Marshall, Shonna
Cc:
Re: My FOIA request/Your reason for not releasing GHW Bush's Yale transcript to me
Hello again Shonna Marshall, Yale University Registrar,
I thought more about our email conversation and what you wrote to me, citing "strict confidentiality standards" for "student" and "Alumni" "privacy."
But my FOIA request concerns a legacy-admitted deceased alumni, George HW Bush, and I believe it is currently a matter of great public interest what a legacy admitted student who became US President might have in his Yale transcript.
I think the actual reason Ms. Preston did not reply to me (even though, as you know, she is the registrar of the Yale undergraduate economics dept) is because: she looked and could not find any transcript.
And, I think: you looked, too, and you can not find any transcript for him either.
I also believe deceased alumni do not have "rights" that Yale can "protect."
Therefore, it seems to me my conclusion may actually be correct:
George HW Bush actually never attended any classes during the time he was at Yale.
Yet, after admitting this legacy, and not requiring to go to any classes, Yale
handed him a diploma and a degree in economics -- knowing full well that basically all this "student" did was to play soccer one semester, baseball three semesters, and join a fraternity.
And that's it.
There is no transcript because there are no grades because he went to no classes.
GHW Bush did not graduate from any "accelerated" undergraduate degree program in economics as Yale did not then and does not now have an "accelerated" undergraduate degree program in economics -- despite what a spokesman for GHW Bush has claimed for years.
I also want to politely share this with you, Shonna Marshall, Yale Registrar:
https://people.howstuffworks.com/lose-right-to-privacy-when-you-die.htm
https://people.howstuffworks.com/lose-right-to-privacy-when-you-die.htm]
FOIA and the Privacy Rights of the Deceased
The Federal Privacy Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) do a fair job of protecting people's privacy, but there's one law that comes into direct conflict with them: the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This law is intended to create government transparency, making it harder for government officials to keep secrets from the citizens they serve. Sometimes, someone files a FOIA request, and the government has to decide if releasing the information violates someone's privacy.
There are several exemptions to FOIA that the government can invoke to avoid releasing information. One allows the government to deny a FOIA request if the request includes "personnel and medical files and similar files that would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy." This allows the government to tread the line legally between FOIA, HIPAA and the Federal Privacy Act in most cases.
That covers the privacy rights of living people, but what happens after death? The Privacy Act is very clear -- it doesn't apply to dead people. Once you die, your information is no longer protected under that law. ...
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Finally, I would like you to know:
I saw GHW's high school transcript published in a book I purchased, "School House to White House" about the education of some of our nation's presidents. This is the book:
https://www.amazon.com/School-House-White-Education-Presidents/dp/1904832431
GHW Bush's private high school transcript is found on page 41, lower right corner. His grades are not so great.
Here are some of the highlights, or perhaps, what some might call, lowlights, of the private high school academic career of this legacy-admitted Yale alumni, GHW Bush:
He failed math with a grade of "55."
He failed chemistry with a grade of "55."
He passed English with "60," the lowest possible passing grade.
Most of his grades are in the 70's. He is not an honors student by any stretch of the imagination.
He graduated Number 213 in a class of 214.
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The book was published as a result of this exhibit:
https://www.archivesfoundation.org/exhibit/school-house-to-white-house-the-education-of-the-presidents/
https://www.archivesfoundation.org/exhibit/school-house-to-white-house-the-education-of-the-presidents/]
I do not recall seeing anywhere the word "legacy" in this book or exhibit. Instead the above URL states GHW Bush was "accepted" into Yale:
"George H. W. Bush attended a small day school in Connecticut before he was enrolled, at age 13, in the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. While there, Bush was a popular student who participated in many extracurricular activities including organizing local charity drives and serving as the editor of the school newspaper. After Phillips, he was accepted at Yale University before leaving to serve in World War II. Bush returned to Yale after the war in an accelerated program that allowed him to graduate in two and a half years..."
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2007/spring/schoolhouse.html
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Well, in conclusion - thank you for reading this far, if you did.
I honestly think Yale has an obligation, now more than ever, to state the real facts about the education of legacy-admitted GHW Bush, in light of on-going litigation about legacy admissions in our country.
If you actually have no transcript for GHW Bush, then Yale should state that to me in response to my FOIA request.
Maybe you could honestly state something factual like this:
Since GHW Bush was a totally unqualified legacy admission at Yale -- and as he cringed at the very thought of actually attending classes -- Yale did not require him to do so. Thus, he earned no grades, and he has no transcript - even though we handed him a diploma and a degree after he hung around Yale for "two and a half years" in "an accelerated program" for economics that does not exist.
Otherwise, I feel what you and Yale are saying to me is dishonest, and sounds something like this:
"Yale remains committed to fostering a culture of inclusion, diversity, collaboration, and innovation" - https://registrar.yale.edu/ -
and, yes, everyone admitted to Yale is welcome to fake a college degree all the way to the White House.
I have cc-ed the Yale University President's assistant on this email to you. Perhaps in the next week or so he can find GHW Bush's transcript -- if one exists -- and email or mail it to me at my address below.
My best,
anobserver2
cc Yale University President Peter Salovey https://president.yale.edu/
via Michael Hoepp, Assistant to the President michael.hoepp@yale.edu
https://president.yale.edu/about/office-directory
On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 9:16 AM Marshall, Shonna wrote:
Hello anobserver2,
Ms. Preston in the Economics department does not have privy to student transcripts. Transcripts are under the exclusive purview of the University Registrar's Office. While under FERPA regulations, we may be authorized to release certain information, it is the university's discretion as to what information we will release. At this time we will not release the transcript for which you are asking. Yale University has strict confidentiality standards for student and alumni privacy which, at times, extends beyond the minimum of what FERPA requires.
My best,
Shonna
Shonna Marshall
University Registrar
Yale University Registrar’s Office
246 Church Street, 3rd floor, New Haven, CT 06510
http://registrar.yale.edu/
she|her|hers
-----Original Message-----
From: anobserver2
Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2023 6:14 PM
To: Marshall, Shonna
Subject: To Shonna Marshall / Fwd: 2nd request for transcript of GHW Bush at Yale
Dear Shonna Marshall, University Registrar at Yale,
I found your name here:
https://registrar.yale.edu/staff-directory
Shonna Marshall
University Registrar
(203) 436-8036
shonna.marshall@yale.edu
I have been trying for some time now, without success, to get the Yale Undergraduate Registrar for the Dept of Economics to respond to my request for a certified transcript of a deceased students, George HW Bush, which I believe I have the legal right to request un FERPA since he is deceased and Yale receives federal funds.
But I can not get her to respond. I have been both polite and patient.
Can you help me by speaking to her and telling her to respond to my email?
Thank you.
anobserver2
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From: anobserver2
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:22:27 -0400
Subject: 2nd request for transcript of GHW Bush at Yale
To: shannon.preston@yale.edu
Dear Shannon Preston, Yale Undergraduate Registrar, Dept of Economics,
On June 6th I asked you how much it cost to receive a certified copy of the undergraduate transcript of GHW Bush, whose bio states he completed an accelerate economics program at Yale in only 2-1/2 years.
I did not see any accelerated economics program on the Yale website, and I did not receive any reply from you regarding my request.
Consequently, I am sending this 2nd email, again asking how much it would cost to obtain a certified transcript of this deceased former president, as how long it will take to obtain this certified transcript.
My understanding of FERPA law is that since this former student is now deceased, and died over the age of 18, and as Yale receives federal funding, I can obtain this transcript.
Please respond at your earliest convenience. Thank you.
anobserver2
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From: anobserver2
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 10:51:58 -0400
Subject: Can you send me this transcript ? /
To: "Preston, Shannon"
Dear Shannon,
Thank you for your email. I did read the website in its entirety, but did not find any info on on an accelerated undergraduate degree program in economics. That is why I wrote to you.
As you are the registrar, I am now writing to request the following from
you:
A certified copy of the undergraduate transcript of a deceased Yale alumni, as my understanding is that Yale received federal money and is thus subject to FERPA< and FERPA student privacy no longer applies when the student is deceased, and died over the age of 18.
The deceased student is George H. W. Bush who arrived at Yale in 1945 and left in 1948. (And, later became the 41st president of the United States.)
I can pay for the cost of any certification and photocopying.
Kindly let me know the amount to send you in a check or money order; which you prefer.
If you are not the person who handles student records as the registrar for undergraduate economics, kindly email and let me know the name of the person who is in charge of this.
I am a retired teacher doing research.
Thank you.
anobserver2
On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 10:33 AM Preston, Shannon
wrote:
> Hello anobserver2,
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> All program information can be found on the department website,
> https://economics.yale.edu/. Here are some additional resources,
> https://yalecollege.yale.edu/
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> Best,
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> Shannon
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> *Sh**annon Preston | Undergraduate Registrar*
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> Department of Economics
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> *From
anobserver2
> *Sent
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 10:24 AM
> *To
Preston, Shannon
> *Subject
Is there someone else I should ask? / Fwd: Quick question /
> To Shannon Preston, Undergrad Registrar - Economics
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> Hello,
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> I did not hear back from you on this question. Is there someone else
> I should ask?
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> anobserver2
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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: anobserver2
> Date: Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 10:45 AM
> Subject: Quick question / To Shannon Preston, Undergrad Registrar -
> Economics
> To:
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> Dear Shannon Preston, Undergraduate Registrar, Economics,
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> I found your name and email address online here -
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> https://economics.yale.edu/undergraduate/undergraduate
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> https://economics.yale.edu/people/shannon-preston
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> I have a quick question -
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> Does Yale have an accelerated program for an undergraduate
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> Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics?
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> (I saw a 3-year accelerated program online for the Yale Latin American
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> Studies undergraduate degree, but I can not find any similar 3-year
> accelerated
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> program on the Yale website for economics.)
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> Kindly email.
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> Thank you,
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>anobserver2
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Has anyone read the new James Patterson memoir "Stories of My Life" ?
What did you think of it? Have you read any reviews of it? It came out this past week, on Tuesday.
I recently read it.
From The Journal of Business Ethics 2004: "Small lies, big trouble..."
To all - an interesting scholarly article here, about resume fraud also known as "resume padding" -- from google scholar:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/B:BUSI.0000033611.50841.55
“Small” lies, big trouble: The unfortunate consequences of résumé padding, from Janet Cooke to George O'Leary
RE Kidwell - Journal of Business Ethics, 2004 - Springer
...Cited by 27 Related articles All 11 versions
From July 2015: "Exclusive: Why Doesn't Jeb Want to Talk About Lehman Bros?"
Excerpt below from:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/exclusive-why-doesnt-jeb-want-to-talk-about-lehman-bros
By Charlie GasparinoPublished July 10, 2015Charlie Breaks ItFOXBusiness
Jeb Bush apparently doesn’t want people to know that he worked at Lehman Brothers, the now-defunct investment bank whose collapse led to the broader financial meltdown in 2008....
How do I know this? Not from the Bush people or even from all those tax returns he released last week, but from countless anonymous sources on Wall Street and once source who isn’t: Anton Valukas, a Reagan appointed former U.S. Attorney who went on to become the examiner for the Lehman bankruptcy.
As part of his work looking at what caused the largest bankruptcy is the nation’s history, Valukas produced a report that runs nearly 500 pages. ...
...the Bush people are clearly hiding something given all the back and forth. Keep in mind that the paperwork that accompanied his tax returns—the same tax returns the Bush campaign went to great lengths to show how he paid the maximum tax rate—barely mentioned his work for Barclays as an adviser, and made no mention of his time at Lehman. We still don’t know, exactly, what he did at either firm.
Jeb Bush earned more money from Wall Street than any single source—nearly half of the $29 million he earned between the time he left the Florida governor’s mansion in 2007 and when he decided to run for Republican presidential nomination in December 2014.
And guess what: it would be nice to know exactly how the guy who wants to run the country made his millions in an industry as complex and controversial as banking. Wall Street isn’t a charity—it’s a big business that has warped laws, weakened regulations and has donated to countless politicians from both parties.
As someone who has covered Wall Street for 25 years, take it from me: We want to know what Jeb did for the financial industry now, not if and when he makes it to the White House.
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Now, bear in mind: Jeb Bush, in my opinion, has:
1) no business degree,
2) no actual college degree,
3) never started his own business,
4) never worked as an investment banker, and
5) no qualifications other than his name (and elected office as governor, which he obtained by deception).
And this Fox news business reporter above, who has covered Wall Street for "25 years," finds it a bit odd that when a presidential candidate named Jeb Bush collects more than half of his $29 million in income from Wall Street, but won't say how or why he got those fees, then, more questions need to be asked.
I agree.
Two Things I Will Remember GH Bush for: 1) his Eternal Hoax on the Public and 2) how he conceals it
Before you read my brief little opinion piece, let me just say condolences to all who cared about GH Bush and
are currently mourning him.
Let me also say this: in our country, there is no such thing as defamation of the dead. A person's reputation dies with the person. Look it up on any search engine.
Now, here is my brief little opinion piece:
There is a reason why GH Bush was such a young enlisted man (a Navy pilot), and it is not because he wanted to go to war and risk death, but rather because: his father wanted him to go immediately to college -- and GH Bush hated academics. GH Bush was athletically inclined as a K-12 student, and was popular enough with his peers, but he was not academically inclined. So, against his father's wishes, off he went to fight in the war.
After serving in the military, GH Bush married college drop-out Barbara Pierce, who had been attending a woman's college, Smith, in Massachusetts. And, off GH Bush went to Yale, as his father demanded.
But serving in the military, reportedly with heroic results, and marrying, did not make GH Bush any more interested in academics. He majored in "economics" at Yale. But he hated studying, reading, going to school - he hated learning about such a difficult topic as his chosen major. So, what did GH Bush do? He dropped out.
Yale did not seem to mind that when he began his political career and sought elected office, GH Bush lied and claimed he graduated from Yale. Why should Yale complain? Yale is a private school. No one has access to GH Bush's academic records. The Bush family had long-term ties with Yale. So what that GH Bush was now engaging in what the private sector commonly calls "resume fraud." Big deal.
Of course, as this college drop-out continues to pretend he had a college degree, and began to win elected office, GH Bush realized: perhaps he should somehow publicly account for his, shall we say, "shorter" time at Yale. Thus, an idea! He was in an "accelerated" economics degree program! Yeah! That's it! An "accelerated" undergraduate economics program existed back then at Yale! Only problem with that is: it didn't and it doesn't.
But, that doesn't matter. In 1992 or 1993, Maureen Dowd of the NYT wrote an opinion piece praising both GH Bush and Jeb Bush for their respective academic genius - and writing, gee, what a coincidence that father and son each finished their undergraduate degrees in only: "2-1/2 years"! Wow! They're BOTH genius-level leaders!
In death, the Washington Post points out in their GH Bush obit that after "graduating" from Yale, GH Bush would have taken a job at Proctor and Gamble (meaning: he had a college degree, required of that company's executives), but, alas, he was passed over, and thus - turned to a job provided by close family friends.
It seems to me that once a person wins a political election in this country, on any level, the "resume fraud" of faking a college degree is no longer subject to question or possible investigation. The public taxpayer-funded salary obtained by that fraud is kept by the con artist. Political power from office remains and can only increase.
Now we fast forward to his vice presidential oath. The oath of our nation's vice president is different from the president's oath. It requires that the vice president not be concealing anything, or words to that effect. But by the time GH Bush took that oath, he knew he was a fraud who had faked a college degree to deceptively win votes, he knew he would use his VP office to publicly conceal his knowledge of his son GW's drinking problem, and that he would and did lie about the academic career of his other son Jeb -- who, like his dad and mom, is also a college drop-out (and like his dad, fakes a college degree -- and while doing so, deceptively won two FL governor races).
But, so what! Who's going to investigate a vice president who lies under oath and thereby breaches the oath? (And who will use that VP office to lie about two of his offspring -- who are future political candidates.)
And now let's fast forward over many other deeds and misdeeds of GH Bush - whether it's not paying attention to the AIDS crisis, his history of groping women (yes, history, as it didn't all happen recently to the eight women who came forward while he was in a wheelchair), or him vomiting on the Japanese official when on an overseas trip, or angering his conservative base by raising taxes, voting for Hillary Clinton, or whatever else.
Now, GH Bush has passed away. He will be buried at his presidential library grounds.
Did you know this? GH Bush is the only president in US history who never once set foot in the town he chose for his presidential library. He never once visited prior to choosing the location. Never once (according to news reports that came out at that time and I read). He did not grow up there. He never traveled there as a boy or an adult. He never went to school there. He never worked there. Nothing. He has no personal connection whatsoever to the place he chose -- unlike every other president who chooses a location for their presidential library.
Why did he choose this place? This place where he will be buried? Where he moved his entire family plot?
It may be because the TAMU (Texas A&M University) location has a unique saying, known as the "Aggie Code of Honor." Here it is:
http://www.tamug.edu/studentrules/Aggie_Code_of_Honor.html
"An Aggie (a TAMU student) does not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate those who do."
So, to sum up my opinion: GH Bush is the first US president to successfully get away with "resume fraud" his entire political life, by faking a college degree -- and thereby he lied, cheated and stole -- yet, ironically, he will now be buried on land governed by: a Code of Honor that does not "tolerate" those who "lie, cheat or steal."
RIP GH Bush.
Note - 12/6/18 - Links to come - see my post #66 at end
Jeb Bush's transcript has probably been destroyed
I realized today for the first time that Jeb Bush's University of Texas college transcript has
probably already been destroyed (or permanently deliberately "misplaced).
It would not surprise me if it was destroyed right after the
1974 FERPA law came into effect, as that law concealed students' transcript from public view.
So, instead of a transcript, perhaps we are left only
with this federal FERPA law -- shielding destruction of evidence (a crime) from view.
However, I notice that under certain circumstances this transcript -- without the consent of the student -- is still required to be produced, according to the FERPA page online here:
http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html
Specifically:
Generally, schools must have written permission from the parent or eligible student in order to release any information from a student's education record. However, FERPA allows schools to disclose those records, without consent, to the following parties or under the following conditions (34 CFR § 99.31):
To comply with a judicial order or lawfully issued subpoena; ...
Consequently, if the FBI were to ever request a subpoena, then perhaps we would know if in fact this transcript was
already destroyed. (Or, I believe, we might get a recently created transcript/forgery, showing classes that never existed, etc.)
But, how does one get the FBI to do that?
I realize they have many other important things to do. Yet, I think it is an
important issue: fraudulently running for the highest office in our country by posing as a college graduate when you ran
for governor -- and never being vetted at that time because you're in a political dynasty family.
It really makes clear the class distinctions in our country, and how far corrupt politicians
can fraudulently go with corrupt institutions duping the public.
It would be nice if someday we had something else come out, such as: the truth.
Why has Jeb Bush's college graduation year been omitted by the media for at least 30 years now?
When voters vote for a candidate, I think the bottom line is they vote for someone they decide they can trust.
But how does anyone trust a candidate such as Jeb Bush, when he can't seem to come up with a month and year of graduation for his college graduation for the past 17 years? (Title changed to "30" years, with addition of entry #13 today, Dec 31, 2016.)
I am referring to the following 12 (changed to 13) examples of omission in the media, from Sept 1998 (before he was elected governor for the first time) to as recently as December 2015. (Actually, from June 1986, with new entry #13)
Every other candidate who claims a college degree has a year attached to the graduation date of the degree except this candidate, Jeb Bush.
Does anyone have any explanation for this persistent material omission of a graduation year by the media for Jeb Bush?
In short, what does Jeb Bush tell the media is his month and year of college graduation?
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Example #1:
-- “Jeb was the Phi Beta
Kappa who blazed through college in under three years"
From: The Washington Examiner, “The problem with Jeb Bush is Jeb” by Noemie Emery, December 22, 2015
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-problem-with-jeb-bush-is-jeb/article/2578860
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Example #2:
-- “He graduated college in two and a half years” “
From: The Atlantic - "The Mysterious Columba Bush,”
by Hanna Rosin, June 2015
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/06/the-mysterious-columba-bush/392090/
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Example #3:
“John Ellis Bush, by
contrast, breezed through the University of Texas in 2-1/2 years"
From: The Los Angeles Times,
“Bush brothers have a complex relationship,
marked by fierce rivalry, wounded feelings,”
by Mark Z. Barabak,
June 17, 2015
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83798651/
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Example #4:
-- “Jeb Bush passed on Yale…. It took him less than three years to graduate
magna cum laudea degree in Latin American studies.”
From: The Texas Tribune, “In Texas, a Focused
Jeb Bush Stood Out From The Crowd,” by Ryan McCrimmon, March 17, 2015
http://www.texastribune.org/2015/03/17/jeb-bush-texas-years/
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Example #5
“[Jeb] Bush had enough problems trying to pass his courses. ...The student who once nearly flunked out said he made the honor roll in the final trimester of his senior year. ... He went instead to the University of Texas in Austin, majored in Latin American studies, graduated in an unusually speedy 2½ years, and married Columba. ..."
From: The Boston Globe, “Jeb Bush shaped by troubled Phillips Academy years,”
by Michael Kranish, Feb 1, 2015
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/02/01/tumultuous-four-years-phillips-academy-helped-shape-jeb-bush/q6ccyHNOtP1n6kqDokMBfK/story.html
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Example #6:
“Jeb Bush raced through the University of Texas in two and half (years)"
From: The New York Times, "Jeb Bush Gives Party Something Something To Think About,”
by Michael Barbaro, May 24, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/us/politics/jeb-bush-gives-party-something-to-think-about.html?_r=0
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Example #7:
-- “He graduated with a degree in Latin American Studies in just 2 1/2 years and they married soon after at UT-Austin Catholic Center in 1974"
From: POLITICO Magazine, “How Jeb Bush Schooled
the Florida Press,” by S.V. Date, April 2014
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/jeb-bush-reporters-florida-schooled-the-press-
117004
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Examples #8-#9:
“He completed his coursework in two and a half years"
From: Wikipedia, footnote #19, on Jeb Bush page,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush
and
Above footnote #19 from -- Page 404, Kitty Kelley's September 2004
biography of the Bushes: “The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty”
http://www.amazon.com/Family-Real-Story-Bush-Dynasty-ebook/dp/B000FC28TO/ref=sr_1_6?
s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1451993147&sr=1-6&keywords=kitty+kelly+biographies
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Example #10:
-- “[Jeb] chose the University of Texas and then squeezed a four-year program into 2 years, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, just to be with her"
From: Sun Sentinel,“First Lady, First Steps” by Linda Kleindienst, Tallahassee Bureau Chief,
February 18, 1999
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1999-02-18/lifestyle/9902170447_1_columba-bush-columba-garnicagallo-
jeb-bush
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Example #11:
-- “Three years later they married... Jeb was about to graduate with a degree in Latin American Studies."
From: St. Petersburg Times, “First, ladies” by Jeanne Malmgren,
October 28, 1998
http://www.sptimes.com/Floridian/102898/First__ladies2.html
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Example #12:
“...his earliest jobs came from friends of the family. After earning his degree in Latin American studies at the University of Texas...”
From: The St Petersburg Times, “Make the Money and Run”
By Alecia Swasy and Robert Trigaux, September 20, 1998
http://www.sptimes.com/State/92098/Make_The_Money_and_Ru.html
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Note on 1/30/16 editing: The original post had 9 sources above, but Example #12 from Sept 1998 has now been added (St Pete Times), as has Example #5 from Feb 2015 (Boston Globe). Also -- the Wikipedia page footnote and Kitty Kelley book are now listed above as Examples 8-9 instead of just one example; this editing today results in a total of 12 examples.
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Example #13:
"... Jeb Bush: 'I was more concerned about graduating (from college) as soon as possible.'
He graduated in less than 2 1/2 years, Phi Beta Kappa, and got a job with the Texas Commerce Bank. Raised an Episcopalian, he became a Roman Catholic and married Columba. The bank assigned him to Venezuela for two years..."
GH Bush: "No dropout problems. And no, you know, real crises, that that generation had, at the time of the Vietnam thing. I'd expect they'd say, yeah, I've been a good father."
From: The Miami Herald's Tropic Magazine, "Family Business"
By Joel Achenbach, June 1, 1986
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2013/04/from-the-vault-the-definitive-early-years-jeb-bush-profile.htm
Note: The "1986" publication date of the above #13 entry means this cover-up of Jeb Bush's alleged graduation date has been going on a lot longer than "17 years" -- we're now at 30 years.
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Added to this thread June 9, 2018:
Example #14 -
...“I mastered academics after I met my wife,” Bush said. “I made the honor roll one trimester at Andover — it was the last one, which breaks all conventional wisdom.”
Bush, who finished in the second quarter of his high-school class, nonetheless arrived at the University of Texas in 1971 with enough credits to skip a year of course work...."
...Bush’s UT studies were heavy with Spanish literature and American and Latin American politics. The only C on his transcript was in “Cultural Anthropology,” in his freshman year.
From: The Miami Herald, "Long Held Values Shape Public Life of Jeb Bush" by William Yardley - "Sept 22, 2002, updated June 10, 2015"
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/jeb-bush/article23680144.html
Note: This article does not explain there was a group grade given to students who went to Mexico to build a school, so it hardly "breaks all conventional wisdom" that since he was part of that group he received the honor roll grade - as he never once made honor roll as an individual student is my understanding.
The article also omits identifying what kind of "credits" enabled him to "skip a year of course work." He wasn't an AP student. He couldn't possibly have scored high enough on CLEP tests to gain college credit after his failing high school record.
Also, the allegedly existing college transcript grades do not average out to the extremely high GPA later advertised in an alumni magazine which is posted elsewhere on this thread. (It seems like a very false ad.)
Finally, this Example #14 article claims he was a "freshman," (so he did not begin as a "sophomore" as he now claims on CNBC below). Another article claims he was a "sophomore" in the years which would correspond to that: See the Texas Tribune article - Example #4 - claiming the tennis team roster lists him as a sophomore in 1973:
"Bush was added to the 1973 (tennis team) roster, listed as a 6-1, 165-pound sophomore. He didn’t travel with the team, but tallied four singles wins, five doubles wins and zero losses."
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June 2018 update
Jeb Bush is now speaking at CNBC, claiming for the first time I have seen that he began college as a "sophomore" because he passed CLEP tests in English, Math and History. I don't think he did that in light
of his failing high school record. Here is the clip:
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/06/07/jeb-bush-college-costs-freshman-year-free-program.html
Jeb Bush claiming in 2018 on CNBC he began UT as a sophomore despite the fact Entry #14 above says he was a freshman:
From CNBC, Jeb Bush: “I started as a sophomore, took all my English, Math, History as CLEP...”
He then implied AP or CLEP credits for himself in print on CNBC:
"...The program helps students study for Advanced Placement exams as well as CLEP exams, which stands for "College Level Examination Program." These tests have been administered by The College Board for over 40 years, and allow students to take inexpensive exams and earn transferable college credit in a variety of academic subjects, allowing some students to earn credits before they even step on campus. This approach allowed Bush to start at the University of Texas as a sophomore. ..."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/08/jeb-bush-college-still-has-value-and-should-be-more-affordable.html
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Without naming a college graduation year, there are now four different explanations as to how Jeb Bush allegedly "earned" a 4 year college degree without spending 4 years doing so:
1- the "squeezing" of the coursework reported by a 1999 newspaper above -- Example #10 -- which is not CLEP and seems more like an attempt to make the university sound like it is not on a time-based system;
2-the allegedly "enterprising" quality of Student Jeb! taking far more courses each semester and in the summers, made by a lawyer on another thread -- as though the academic department is not the one deciding when courses are offered;
3-the implied representation in Example #14 above that AP credits are being transferred in from high school -- since the name of these credits is not identified in the article; and now:
4-"CLEP" is declared by Jeb on television in the above video clip as the method by which he graduated early. (Gee, it only took 30+ years for him to come up with that word.)
I don't believe he is a college graduate. Because there are now four different explanations on how he allegedly graduated in less time than 4 years (and as his failing high school record should have resulted in remedial work in order to succeed at higher ed coursework, so that it would have taken MORE time (not less time) than 4 years for him if he ever sought a 4 year degree)
I think Jeb Bush, his parents and his wife all lied to the public for more than 30 years to deceive voters and fraudulently win votes. That is my opinion. But I think it is also fact. It is just common sense and logic. You don't fail high school, meet a girl, and then overnight become a genius. Sorry. Learning takes a little more time than that.
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