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Not actually, but obviously, if somebody has a real objection.

Has there been any that has been a very controversial, or the committee argued about, that you're aware of?

Oh, well--my God, there were dozens that were turned down. You want more than a consensus. You don't want to split up your faculty over one person or another, it's not worth it.

Give me some examples of turned-downs. [pause]. And the reason.

Well, first--I'm going back to a previous point, when I said we didn't nominate anybody who was in political office. We had invited Cy Vance to be the speaker. And the man who invited him to be the speaker made the mistake of saying, “And you will get an honorary degree.” We had to tell--I had to tell the man: “Look, you can't do that. You've got to go back and tell Cy Vance that we want him to be a speaker but he isn't going to get an honorary degree.” Next year, courtesy of the Iranians, he was out of office, so we gave him the honorary degree the year after.

Ah--oh, God! I can try--I know quite a lot were sort of booed out of contention, but I'm trying to remember who they were. Well, it may come back to me as I read the notes.

Okay. Anything else to comment on about the granting of honorary degrees?