The son never played football ("I didn't want to be compared to my dad") and instead studied political science at UCLA and got an M.

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John Kerry went to a boarding school in Switzerland, to a top private school in New Hampshire and then to Yale, where he studied political science and joined the secret and elite Skull and Bones club, just as George W Bush did two years later.

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He studied philosophy and political science at Memphis State University, and then earned a law degree from Vanderbilt University in 1967.

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