These Duke connections keep coming up everywhere. Now we learn that Nan Keohane, former president of Duke, had a hand in deep-sixing Hillary Rodham’s senior thesis at Wellesley. Seems the Clinton White House was concerned her subject (Chicago radical Saul Alinsky) might cause problems. According to MSNBC, Keohane (sister of famed editor and former Washington Post ombud Geneva Overholser, by the way) was more than cooperative. Note her Democratic Party connections mentioned below:
After the call from the White House, Wellesley’s president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, consulted with lawyers and closed access to any thesis written by a U.S. president or first lady, a rule affecting only Hillary D. Rodham’s thesis. Keohane moved on later that year to be president of Duke University, and now is a visiting professor at Princeton, where she teaches political philosophy, leadership and feminist theory. An Arkansan who was eight years ahead of Hillary Rodham at Wellesley, Keohane is a regular contributor to Democratic candidates and to a congressional PAC that gives exclusively to Democrats, including Hillary Clinton.
