Princeton University - Obama Presidency Oral History

...says, “Yeah, I don't think you're Princeton material.” Now, this of course upsets ...

...her heart, she's like, “Craig goes to Princeton , and I'm smarter than Craig. So if h...

...opportunity to go to college or go to Princeton . Reach Higher, and then our Gen ...

...tell young people not the, “You're not Princeton material,” but actually, “There'...

...about policy, and she went to Princeton and Harvard Law and had been ...

...We had Mrs. Obama on the plane in her Princeton shirt. All of us wore our colleg...

...idea and had Michelle Obama in her Princeton shirt, to suddenly this iconic momen...

...Every year we'd pick out a different Princeton shirt for Mrs. Obama. We'd be figurin...

...his Columbia shirt, Mrs. Obama in her Princeton shirt; they're sort of back to back i...

...Ivies. They both went to Columbia and Princeton and then Harvard Law and Harvard Law...

...image. Not that everyone has to go to Princeton and Harvard or Columbia, but ho...

...believe in her and told her she wasn't Princeton material, and yet going to college an...

...a story about when she was a senior at Princeton and she was working on her thesis an...

...counselor who told her she wasn't Princeton material. So, I guess spring roll...

...they want to say, “Of course I got into Princeton , of course I got into Harvard, o...

...kid on the South Side of Chicago to Princeton and Harvard and Sidley and the Whit...

...students at an elite place like Princeton . We probably didn't use the term the...

...ways she's described her experience at Princeton , and I think you can describe it, a...

...her imposter syndrome, her struggles at Princeton ; whether it was talking about th...

...counselor who told her she wasn't Princeton material. When we were workshoppin...

...She was a TA for a professor at Princeton . Yeah, you told me that story. Bu...