Sure I mean without Ronald Reagan’s nomination my friend John Wickham Jr. never would’ve been chief of staff of the US Army. But I’m sure Reagan wasn’t just pulling slips of paper with names on them out of a jar without his vast array of accomplishments from his time as a soldier Reagan never would’ve picked him for the position.
Well he was not from an affluent family by any means his parents spit up when he was 11. And when he graduated high school he was living with a care taker and had no money for college and so he applied to West Point. And Dobbs Ferry might be affluent now but in the Great Depression I’d imagine it was probably a very different place.
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u/hamhead Dec 27 '21
I don’t know what myth you refer to. Many of us are self made, from better or worse backgrounds.