Staff boast that one of them taught President Hu Jintao when he was at university.
In six decades as a jazz saxophonist, Mr. Heath, 78, has played alongside Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and John Coltrane and taught President Clinton a thing or two at the White House.
In defense of the administration's position, the legal scholar Laurence H. Tribe, who taught President Obama at Harvard Law School, has insisted, as he put it two years ago, that "only political courage and compromise" can avert disaster.
"I'm more inclined to think that he sees the whole problem as a continuation, not as an avenging," said John Morton Blum, the historian who taught President Bush at Yale.
You would think that the "Mission Accomplished" fiasco would have taught President Bush's handlers a lesson, but instead of an honest appraisal of the war or a meaningful strategy for ending it, we again get an empty slogan, "Plan for Victory".
The US President had dared at the beginning of his first term to demand that Israel merely "freeze" settlement-building, and thus the Israeli Prime Minister made the resolve to teach President Obama a lesson, forcing him to back down while pledging to continue to act as he finds it to be in his political or ideological interest.
At Yale, where I teach, President Peter Salovey announced an ambitious plan that will establish a multi-million dollar center for the study of race, indigeneity, and transnational migration; hire new faculty in ethnic studies; double the funding for campus cultural centers; and provide additional financial aid and support services for low-income students and students of color.
"I love teaching," the President told Jeffrey Toobin in October, 2014.
Mr. Eisgruber, who continued to teach and write about legal issues after becoming provost in 2004, said he expected to continue teaching as president, as Dr. Tilghman did.
Now, to the horror of the powerful teaching unions, President Jacob Zuma's government is talking of reintroducing a schools' inspectorate.Not all is gloom.
While visiting her mother's cousins, Franklin and Eleanor, in the White House on December 7 , 1941 she spent the afternoon teaching the President's dog, Fala, to roll over.
