Nixon to World: “Don’t ever go to an Ivy League school again, ever. Never, never, never.”

by James Yu | December 9, 2008 at 4:32 pm

Last week the Nixon Library released over 198 hours of Richard Nixon's rantings - recorded after his re-election in 1972 - and Gothamist pulled a few interesting quotes on the disgraced president's disdain for, well, pretty much everything, which includes the Ivy League.

Speaking with Henry Kissinger about the National Security Adviser's meeting with Ivy League college presidents about the war in Vietnam, Nixon had this to say:

The Ivy League presidents? Why I'll never let those sons of bitches in the White House again. Never, never, never. They're finished. The Ivy League schools are finished... Henry, I would never have had them in. Don't do that again... They came out against us when it was tough... Don't ever go to an Ivy League school again, ever. Never, never, never."

Of course Nixon's talking in the context of White House advice-seeking, but the begrudging quality of his words seems to imply that he didn't like the Ivy League in any context. A partial explanation for this may be found in the fact that while he was accepted to Harvard College on scholarship, transportation and living expenses made him choose nearby Whittier College instead. Read the rest of this entry »

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