"just out of law school": following, that is, graduation from Georgetown University, a Rhodes scholarship, and graduation from Yale Law School. There is an old

"just out of law school": following, that is, graduation from Georgetown University, a Rhodes scholarship, and graduation from Yale Law School. There is an old gibe that a Rhodes Scholar is a young man with a great future behind him, but I suspect that most persons with those credentials do pretty well. Achieving the presidency of the US has so many chance factors in it--would we have heard of GWB had Ronald Reagan picked (say) Richard Lugar to run with him in 1980?--that it makes a tricky argument for political acuity.