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TayTay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-11 12:00 PM
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I don't care. I liked Harry Truman, in retrospect, and he never attended college.

Truman was the only president who served after 1897 without a college degree: poor eyesight prevented him from applying to West Point (his childhood dream). When his high school buddies went off to the state university in 1901, Truman instead enrolled in a local business school, but only lasted a semester. In 1923-25 he took night courses toward a law degree at the Kansas City Law School (now the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law), but dropped out after losing his government job.<31> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman

I have known a lot of idiots who graduated from prestigious colleges. A transcript won't tell me that someone is an idiot, unfortunately.
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