Famous Failures
How Yale Quitters Become Heavy Hitters
Forty-five years ago, an ambitious young man from the West Coast arrived on Old Campus as many freshman do: homesick, underconfident and missing his high school sweetheart (Lynne). Fewer than two years later, the freshman football player, a future vice president of the United States, decided he'd had about enough of Yale. And so Dick Cheney (not quite '63), dropped out, twice.
"A Yale degree is worth a lot, as I often remind [Cheney]," President George W. Bush '68 said at Commencement in 2001. "So now we know -- if you graduate from Yale, you become president. If you drop out, you...
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