Harvard University - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Harvard University Index / Organizations Transcripts Frances Beinecke ...Institute of Technology] or at Harvard . She was, I think, at MIT at tha... Bill McKibben ...us. I know you were an undergraduate at Harvard University , and I wanted to ask if there wer... ...if there were particular professors at Harvard who influenced how you thought abou... ...We had a six-day-a-week newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, that I eventually ended up a... ...politics. That was a moment when Harvard was very caught up in the antiaparthei... ...Entire sections of the biolabs at Harvard were going private and spinnin... ...Thanks for sharing that with us. After Harvard , I know you worked as a staff write... Show more... Kate Orff ...When I was in school, and this was at Harvard in that master in landscap... ...This is at a lecture you gave at Harvard . You said, “The president-elect i... ...is—if I was maybe trained at Harvard or whatever to think of myself as th... ...your professional training at Harvard , for instance. Yes, it really fel... Nancy Sutley ...and attended Cornell University and Harvard University . Were there particular experiences o... Jeh Johnson ...in his class at West Point, was on the Harvard Law Review with Barack Obama, I'm tol... Susan Sher ...resume, Princeton [University], Harvard Law School, so I interviewed her. An... ...had left the administration and was at Harvard [University] at the time. I called he... ...the campaign, after graduating from Harvard . And he had a Haggadah with him o... Martin Nesbitt ...Obama's story about Princeton and Harvard . So very similar in values. I thin... ...to, they thought, “A Black guy from Harvard against a Black guy from Harvard; w... ...from Harvard against a Black guy from Harvard ; we have a chance.” Like, no. Thes... ...both African American males from Harvard doesn't mean they're the same person... ...they're Black and they both went to Harvard . We don't see them as the same, and w... David Axelrod ...African Americans face, but he was a Harvard Law graduate—as she was, but he did no... ...because he had been president of the Harvard Law Review, the first African America... ...in 1992. Obama had just returned from Harvard Law School, and he was running Projec... ...here is a guy who was president of the Harvard Law Review. He had made national new... ...an African American president of the Harvard Law Review, until we changed that. The... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Financial Crisis and the Economy Financial Crisis and the Economy go to the Gun Control Gun Control go to the Native America Native America