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http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=513563 Bushs Personal Aide To Enroll at Business School Gottesman, college dropout and former beau to Bush daughter, to begin in the fall Published On 5/22/2006 2:12:14 AM By PARAS D. BHAYANI Harvard Crimson Staff Writer A 26-year-old college dropout who carries President Bushs breath mints and makes him peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches will follow in his bosss footsteps this fall when he enrolls at Harvard Business School (HBS). Though it is rare for HBSor any other professional or graduate schoolto admit a student who does not have an undergraduate degree, admissions officers made an exception for Blake Gottesman, who for four years has served as special assistant and personal aide to Bush. Gottesman, a Texas native who attended Claremont-McKenna College in California for one year, has long had ties to the Bush family. He dated the presidents daughter, Jenna Bush, nearly ten years ago when he attended St. Andrews Episcopal School of Austin. After completing his freshman year at Claremont in 1999, he left to join the Bush presidential campaign and later served as a junior aide to former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card. In February 2002, he became the presidents personal assistant. In his current role, Gottesman performs a wide range of duties, from dog-sitting the presidents Scottish terriers, Barney and Miss Beazley, to carrying the presidents speeches and giving him the two-minute warning before a speech begins. Gottesman has declined all requests for comment on his business school admission, but White House staffers have described him as loyal, warm, and fun-loving. He is a friend and adviser to every employee of the White House, from career maintenance workers to cabinet secretaries, Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin told The Myrtle Beach Sun News. He is consistently kind and warm and generous with his time and provides extraordinarily good advice. Gottesman has likened his role at the White House to that of Charlie Young on the NBC television program The West Wing. When asked about his similarity to Young in an interactive question-and-answer session on the White Houses Web site, Gottesman wrote, Charlie seems to be smarter, funnier, and better-looking. But, from what I rememberour jobs are probably pretty similar. HBS spokesman James E. Aisner 68 explained the decision to accept Gottesman, even though he is not a college graduate, by telling The Economist that extraordinary circumstances will sometimes compel it to drop [its] rule of only admitting students who hold bachelor's degrees. He refused to comment specifically on Gottesman, citing Harvards policy of not commenting on the admission of any individual student. Aisner also pointed out to The Economist that Harvard would surely admit applicants like Bill Gates and Michael Dell, both of whom are college dropouts. But the often-snarky British weekly noted: Needless to say, holding the presidents hand-sanitizer is a far cry from heading a Fortune 500 company. Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________ Note: This message comes from the peace-justice-news e-mail mailing list of articles and commentaries about peace and social justice issues, activism, etc. If you do not regularly receive mailings from this list or have received this message as a forward from someone else and would like to be added to the list, send a blank e-mail with the subject "subscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or you can visit: http://lists.enabled.com/mailman/listinfo/peace-justice-news Go to that same web address to view the list's archives or to unsubscribe. E-mail accounts that become full, inactive or out of order for more than a few days will become disabled or deleted from this list. FAIR USE NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the information in this e-mail is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving it for research and educational purposes. I am making such material available in an effort to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of copyrighted material as provided for in the US Copyright Law.
