the 120, 99 were phi beta kappa. gerald ford graduated in the top 30. gerald ford serves in combat in the pacific campaigns, one duty manning the aft station guns. >> lieutenant ford had the qualities to act. this requires leadership of a very high order. the day-to-day work, the maintenance, the routine, that's what you have to have, so when the crisis comes you can meet it. this particular occasion, we were attacked by japanese torpedo bombers. two of them penetrated the destroyer screen. the torpedos missed. ford didn't miss. he fired and they went down. >> in 1948, lieutenant commander ford leaves the campaigns of war for the campaigns of politics. congressman ford wins reelection 12 times. politics and marriage began together for jerry ford. he married betty during his first campaign. >> when you're a congressman and dedicated to your work, you work hard at the job. and every two years, you work hard to keep it by campaigning. when he was home -- >> but jerry ford found time for family. he had grown up in a loving environment. together, he and bett

graduated phir beta kappa in english and american literature. since then, she has been a loyal alumni anded supporter of the university. we are appreciative of the allegiance you have shown to the university in the succeeding decades. mid-1950's to the late 1950's, playboy was crucial in jumpstarting the careers of three major comedians. morts all, dick groat agree, and of course, lenny bruce. playboy played an extra new role in the transformation of american economy away from a personal towards effort at pursuing truth, and in that sense, there is a historic role here that they have played in that particular change towards something that would indeed alter the direction really of american economy, and pursue it in directions that would allow the understanding really have perhaps uncomfortable truths, racial or sexual come a weather political. and finally, the argument for christie hefner as our keynote speaker is also the sense that her own career, both in philanthropy and her own politics, has also represented a gallant dedication to both the

she attended cornell university, was elected to phi beta kappa and graduated first among the women in her class. then harvard law school, one of nine women in the classified hundred. when her fellow when her fellow student and husband marty whom she met on a blind date was diagnosed with cancer she attended class for both of the, took notes, typed her husband's papers and care for both him and their infant daughter. when he recovered and took a job in took a job in new york city she transferred to columbia law school, she became the first woman to become elected to twod major law reviews, columbia and harvard. i saw the picture in the book, the rgb, to woman out of 60 at the harvard law review and they have your picture equally balanced to women among 60 men. type your first integration in a graduate class in columbia. was turned down for united states supreme court clerkship x because she was as a new york times reporter because she was a woman. w if she was discouraged she remained undaunted. as a professor the second woman to join the law faculty at rutgers she founded the woman's

i had to go marry a phi beta kappa. (audience laughing) don't you worry, sweetie, you're gonna be just great at the greek grotto tomorrow night. (audience cheering) (lively exotic music) perhaps, you will enter our exotic dance contest, mrs. crabtree? - no mrs. crabtree, we're just here to watch. - you know, this is a nice room. i think it'd be fun to enter the exotic dance contest. - honey, are you kidding? we shouldn't even be here. did you take a look at that dancer? - mm-hmm, whatever. - whatever? don't you think she was little on the side? - well during the greek festivals-- - oh honey, would you stop with the greek. it's all greek to me. - i'm gonna have a marvelous time. - hello, mr. heckendorn, this is alexander. to close the grotto? he's here. yes, with his wife, i thought you ought to know. oh, absorba is going over to their table. they are very friendly, mr. heckendorn. i think you better come over here right away. yes, thank you. - let me look at you, the son of my old friend, and you, the wife of the son of

i graduated summa cum laude phi beta kappa from princeton before before -- by the way, way before grade inflation. at yale i had a fairly decent record there. i was the editor of the yale law journal. i was the managing editor of the international law journal. i have been a fairly successful prosecutor and i think it's successful as a judge, as a lower court judge and it was hurtful for me to hear people say that i wasn't smart enough. and when i thought about it, i realized that it is the language that many paint when it comes to positions of responsibility. either not smart enough, not creative enough, not something enough. with me they said i was too tough. [laughter] you know i mean my former colleague and i justice scalia sparred on who would ask the most questions and i certainly didn't think that i was harsh on lawyers but i was described and am described as very aggressive. he wasn't described as aggressive and boy, was he. if you looked at the two of us i may have been tough but i was never harsh. he could be both. but that adjective wasn't used to describe him. yes there are g

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