Vito wrote:

OTOH Dick Nixon did OK because he met the scion of Occidental Petroleum
at Harvard.

??? Nixon hated "the ultra-liberal Harvard professors in John F.
Kennedy's White House." Nixon received his law degree from Duke in
1937:
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/les...esson-185.html

Al Gore was the son who benefitted from Armand Hammer's personal
largesse and friendship with his Senator Dad.
http://archive.salon.com/politics200...pi/index1.html

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