<p>The main point was that the state universities seem to be where the route to political leadership lies in most instances.</p>
<p>Past Presidents of the 20th Century:</p>
<p>GWB: Yale
Clinton: Georgetown
GHB: Yale
Reagan: Eureka college
Carter: US Naval Academy
Ford: U of Michigan
Nixon: Whittier College
Johnson: Southwest Texas State Teachers College
Kennedy: Harvard
Eisenhower: West Point
Truman: Spalding's Commercial College (one semester)
F Roosevelt: Harvard
H Hoover: Stanford (pioneering class, 1891)
Wilson: the College of New Jersey (now Princeton)
Taft: Yale
T. Roosevelt: Harvard</p>
<p>When one looks at those without family and money, the route to the presidency does not seem to be through HYP either. Particularly since WWII.</p>