Ivy League Graduates in the Bush Administration

  • Dick Cheney, VP: Yale (dropped out)
  • Michael Mukasey, Attorney General: Columbia and Yale Law (editor of Yale Law Journal)
  • Elaine Chao, Labor Secretary: Harvard Business School, Mt Holyoke, Dartmouth, MIT, and Columbia
  • Samuel Bodman, Energy Secretary: Cornell, MIT
  • Mary Peters, Transportation Secretary: Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
  • Henry Paulsen, Treasury Secretary: Harvard MBA, Dartmouth
  • Robert Gates, Defense Secretary: William and Mary, Georgetown
  • Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security: Harvard and Harvard Law
  • James Peake, Veterans Affairs: West Point and Cornell
  • Josh Bolton, Chief of Staff: Princeton, Stanford, taught at Yale Law
 

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