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Thu Sep 20, 2018, 09:41 AM Sep 2018

Version of Kavanaugh Speech that Went to Senate Mysteriously Omits Remark About High School Days


by Ronn Blitzer | 8:44 am, September 20th, 2018

In March 2015, Brett Kavanaugh gave a speech at Catholic University Law School, during which he recalled his high school days at Georgetown Prep. Those days are now being scrutinized due to allegations that Kavanaugh tried to rape Christine Ford during that time period. In his speech, Kavanaugh made a joke alluding to misbehavior as a high school student, which ended up being cut out of the version published by the Catholic Law Review. That version was included in the Supreme Court nominee’s “published works” that were turned over to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

As seen in video shared by Jonathan Larsen of The Young Turks Investigates, Kavanaugh spoke briefly about mottos.

“Our motto at Georgetown Prep was ‘to be men for others,” it was an all boys school; to be men for others,” Kavanaugh said. “And I know this school helps teach its students to be lawyers for others to serve the public and to serve others who are in need.” He then went on to discuss teachers and coaches he had, and sayings of theirs that he recalled. Then there was the following:

I, by coincidence, three classmates of mine at Georgetown Prep were graduates of this law school in 1990 and are really, really good friends of mine: Mike Bidwill, Don Urgo, and Phil Merkle. And they were good friends of mine then and are still good friends of mine as recently as this weekend, when we were all on email together. But fortunately we had a good saying that we’ve held firm to to this day, as the dean was reminding me before the talk, which is, “What happens at Georgetown Prep stays at Georgetown Prep.” That’s been a good thing for all of us, I think.





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