Arguably, the preponderance of Harvard scholars on Bush's team will not hurt the candidate. After all, he also has a raft of advisers from his native Texas and from the conservative Hoover Institute at Stanford University in California.
Will said Bush will not be susceptible to the kind of attacks his father employed against Dukakis because of his solid foundation in the Longhorn State.
"Bush went from Yale to oil exploration in Texas, and before Yale he attended Texas [elementary and secondary] schools," Will said, verifying the frontrunner's local credentials.
The Harvard Lure in Lore
Like Bush, Roosevelt fled from the East after completing his studies.
"Teddy went from Harvard to the badlands; he was a cowboy and a rough rider and a police commissioner," Will said.
"He went out of his way to shed any idea of the effete Easterner," he added.
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