Presidents used to take pride in their alma maters, and universities celebrated their graduates when they ascended to the White House. But in today’s fractured politics? Not so much.
from bringing up his name and given instructions to keep it short in the event a prospective student asked about the then-president.
Plainly, these are no longer the days of Bill Clinton hosting Georgetown reunions at the White House or JFK filling his administration with a Harvard brain trust. Likewise, Ronald Reagan, whose political origin story tended to begin in California, typically didn’t say much about Eureka College in his native Illinois, and his degree became a source of some elite snickering: In one incident that earned Harvard some much-deserved derision, Reagan declined the school’s offer to participate in its 350th-anniversary celebration in 1986 after it announced it wouldn’t present an honorary degree, even though the presidents who took part in its 300th and 250th...
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