Bowling Alley for its long interior court.
A regular reader enjoyed the Lutherans at Yale posts, so I decided to add one about Yale and politics.
For the longest time the only US president from Yale was Taft, famous for getting stuck in the White House bathtub.
Gerald Ford changed that when he became president. Hired as a Yale football coach, he earned a law degree in his spare time.
Next came George H. W. Bush, Yale College graduate, whose son W. was born at Yale-New Haven Hospital. W. became a Skull and Bones member at Yale, like his father and grandfather (Senator Prescott Bush).
W. graduated from Yale College and earned an MBA at Harvard. He is the first president to have an MBA.
John Kerry was at Yale College at almost the same time as Bush, earning worse grades and almost flunking out. He was tapped for Skull and Bones, too.
Bill and Hillary Clinton were both Yale Law students just before we got there. Many Clinton staffers were drawn from Yale friendships. Lanny Davis (Yale College and Law) is one.
Gary Hart was Gary Hartpence when he attended Yale Divinity and Yale Law. He became famous for Monkey Business in his run for president.
Senator Danforth also went to Yale Divinity and Yale Law, retiring from politics to resume duty as an Episcopalian priest. (His family created the Purina Dog Chow company in St. Louis.)
Senator Joe Lieberman graduated from Yale Law in 1967 and ran for president with Al Gore, who flunked out of Vanderbilt Divinity.
