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Tight security at Bush speech

YDN Staff Reporter
Published Tuesday, May 22, 2001

Security for the 2001 Commencement was the tightest for any Yale graduation ceremony since the last time a President Bush received an honorary degree and addressed the University's graduates.

Heavy concentrations of Secret Service agents and police were spread throughout the Yale campus, particularly around Old Campus and the President's House on Hillhouse Avenue, where President George W. Bush '68 spent Sunday night with Yale President Richard Levin.

Long lines formed all around Old Campus before the ceremony Monday morning as attendees waited to go through...

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