Not that much of a geek, I know the alma maters of those presidents too...But, do the military academies count as "Ivy League?"

Well GHW Bush didn't go to college. In fact, he didn't even graduate highschool. It's a Fact™.

Bush: Yale/Harvard
Clinton: G-town/Yale
Bush: Yale
Reagan: Eureka College
Carter: Naval Academy
Ford: ? Michigan?
Nixon: Whittier/Duke
LBJ: Sam Houston State teacher's college?
JFK: Harvard
Eisenhower: West Point?

And here I was, thinking that I was the champion heartland inverse social snob.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

Eighth cousins, twice removed.

Ike did go to the Point, Carter spent a year at the University of Georgia, I think, before the Academy, and I am sure Ford went to Michigan. He played football there.

I only know that most of them were Ivy League (erm, that was an easy one, I guess). On the other hand, I have a new address and I went to college at The University of Missouri-Columbia.

Don't forget, not only did Bush and Kerry both go to Yale, but both are Skull and Bones members.

Ford went to the University of Michigan.

Well done IB Bill and the rest of you. :-)

Ivies are ONLY the following 8: Dartmouth, Yale, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Penn, Columbia and Brown.

My grandfather was the athletic director at Penn at the time of the formation of the League. See also his obit from Penn.

Mr. Ford's 1953 appointment led to the official alignment of the Ivy League in 1956 when the Council of Ivy Group Presidents went into effect.

Lastly, text from a 1957 Sports Illustrated:

As the curtain rises on our morality play, it is 1948. The University of Pennsylvania has installed a new president--big, blond, balding Harold Edward Stassen, who had thrice been governor of Minnesota (the Boy Governor, they called him) and had served on Admiral Bull Halsey's staff in the Pacific.

At this time, the Ivy League had not yet been formed, but it was in the process of fruition. Five years before Stassen attained prexyhood, the presidents of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia and Pennsylvania had begun holding annual meetings to discuss football in their group and how to handle it. The eight presidents were groping for an Ivy League formula, and had already drawn up some regulations for the group.

OK, now I looked it up. LBJ went to Southwest Texas State Teachers College. Dan Rather went to Sam Houston State, I believe.