Chuck Schumer’s B
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James Joyner | Friday, March 16, 2007 |
Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts report that U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D, NY) is “still steamed about the grade he got on his college thesis.”
Schumer was a senior at Harvard in 1971 when he wrote the paper about building a more effective Congress — and furious when he received a B. His instructor? Conservative commentator Bill Bennett, a Harvard law student who was teaching the undergraduate social studies course. “He went nuts,” said Bennett, who was unmoved when Schumer lobbied for a higher grade.
Bennett said the senator still reminds him of the beef every time they meet. “He says, ‘I don’t know if you remember this . . .’ and I say, ‘Stop with the grade-grubbing.’”
Ronald Reagan, a “C” student at Eureka College, harbored similar resentments fifty years later. He often told audiences, “Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished had I studied harder.”
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia.
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An interesting note of personality there from what you have stated. Schumer's actions are appearently to blame the teacher / argue that the teacher wasn't right. Reagans statement indicated that *he* knew he was the one to blame for his grade, not the teacher.
I'm not saying that it says everything, since we don't know all the details, but it is indicative to a degree.
That had occurred to me as well.
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