Here’s a curious story:
A 26-year-old college dropout who carries President Bushâs breath mints and makes him peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches will follow in his bossâs footsteps this fall when he enrolls at Harvard Business School.
Though it is rare for HBSâor any other professional or graduate schoolâto admit a student who does not have an undergraduate degree, admissions officers made an exception for Blake Gottesman, who for four years has served as special assistant and personal aide to Bush.
Now this got emailed to me from, shall we say, anti-Bush quarters. But is it really so crazy to make an exception for someone with four years’ work experience as a personal aide to the President of the United States? Perhaps I’ve been unduly influenced by Charlie on The West Wing but this actually seems like a non-trivial job to me that he’s been doing. On a personal note, I should say that I don’t like peanut butter, with or without jelly, which most people regard as freakish and un-American (and I’m not sure they’re wrong).
