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- From: crdunlea@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Christopher R. Dunlea)
- Subject: Re: Presidents who studied abroad
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.142422.28826@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- References: <HISTORY%92110912372541@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> <1992Nov10.001513.12134@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 14:24:22 EST
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- In article <1992Nov10.001513.12134@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> regeorge@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert E George) writes:
- >In article <HISTORY%92110912372541@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> DGPAZ@CLEMSON.BITNET writes:
- >>Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, as everyone
- >>knows. John Kennedy was a junior year abroad student (I
- >>think) at the London School of Economics. Did any of
- >>our other US Presidents study abroad, either at the
- >>universities, or the Inns of Court, or outside Britain?
- >
- >I would suggest you examine the life of Herbert C. Hoover. IMO he is the most
- >likely 20th century President (aside from the President-elect) to have
- >studied abroad. Pres. Hoover was a very-renowned engineer who lived outside
- >the U.S. for an extended period of time.
- >
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- I might suggest the life of Woodrow Wilson. As a history professor and later
- president of either Rutgers or Princeton he would no douvt have studied
- overseas for his PhD.
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- Chris
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