The Daily Background
| Defering on economics, Bush incorrectly remembers academic performance
Filed at 6:35 pm, Thursday September 20th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
You’ve heard of currency inflation, but what about grade-inflation?
In a Thursday morning morning press conference at the White House, the President engaged in a little bit of grade inflation about his academic record.
“You need to talk to economists,” he answered when asked if there was a risk of recession in the US economy. “I think I got a B in Econ 101. I got an A however in keeping taxes low, and being fiscally responsible with the people’s money.”
President Bush as an undergraduate at Yale did not in fact receive a grade of B in his economics course. Bush received a grade that would correspond with a C-.
Watch a video of Bush’s remarks on the economy today here.
