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<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=513563">Bush's Personal Aide To Enroll at Business School</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> A 26-year-old college dropout who carries President Bush's breath mints and makes him peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches will follow in his boss's footsteps this fall when he enrolls at Harvard Business School (HBS).<br><br>Though it is rare for HBS or any other professional or graduate school to admit a student who does not have an undergraduate degree, admissions officers made an exception for Blake Gottesman, who for four years has served as special assistant and personal aide to Bush.<br><br>Gottesman, a Texas native who attended Claremont-McKenna College in California for one year, has long had ties to the Bush family. He dated the president's daughter, Jenna Bush, nearly ten years ago when he attended St. Andrew's Episcopal School of Austin.<br><br>After completing his freshman year at Claremont in 1999, he left to join the Bush presidential campaign and later served as a junior aide to former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card. In February 2002, he became the president's personal assistant.<br><br>In his current role, Gottesman performs a wide range of duties, from dog-sitting the president's Scottish terriers, Barney and Miss Beazley, to carrying the president's speeches and giving him the "two-minute warning" before a speech begins.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I wonder what other services he provides for the prez...more importantly, I wonder what services the young man provides for <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Poppy</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=dranek7>dranek7</A> at: 5/26/06 8:01 pm<br></i>

<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://liberalserving.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/gopher.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=1tal>1 tal</A> at: 5/27/06 1:02 am<br></i>

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>“He is a friend and adviser to every employee of the White House, from career maintenance workers to cabinet secretaries,” Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin told The Myrtle Beach Sun News</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>As opposed to hobbyist maintenance workers, CIA cover maintenance workers, or Nicole Ritchie and Paris Hilton cleaning White House toilets as a well-paid lark? <br><br> <p></p><i></i>

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>He dated the president's daughter, Jenna Bush, nearly <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>ten years ago</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> when he attended St. Andrew's Episcopal School of Austin.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>um, maybe I'm wrong, but aren't the Bush twins like 22 years old? <p></p><i></i>

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>um, maybe I'm wrong, but aren't the Bush twins like 22 years old?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>No, the twins are 24, manufactured on November 25, 1981. I hope that this episode, plus Euan Blair's <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>full scholarship</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> at Yale, demonstrates to all of the hard-working prospective Harvard and Yale students that one's academic merits <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>still</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> aren't worth a pile of beans. <p></p><i></i>