Have you noticed in the Bush family that whether it's getting Dad's help in getting out of the war or getting into school that it's always okay for Bush but not for others? ---Sam
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON - President Bush, who followed his father and grandfather to Yale University despite an undistinguished academic record, said Friday that colleges should get rid of "legacy" admission preferences that favor the sons and daughters of alumni.
"I think it ought to be based on merit," Bush told a conference of minority journalists when he was pressed about his views on affirmative action. "And I think colleges need to work hard for diversity." ...
... A member of a politically influential family, Bush graduated from Yale in 1968 and didn't try to hide that he had enjoyed the party life in college and had taken — as he put it — the "academic road less traveled." Returning to Yale four months after moving into the White House, Bush said with a grin, "To the 'C' students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States."
"In my case I had to knock on a lot of doors to follow the old man's footsteps," Bush said Friday, although it wasn't clear if he was talking about Yale or the White House.
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