But when Tim Russert asked Bush about Skull and Bones in February on "Meet the Press," the president said: "It's so secret we can't talk about it." When Russert asked Kerry last August what it meant that both he and Bush are Bonesmen, the Massachusetts senator replied: "Not much because it's a secret."īut the fact that both presidential candidates are Bonesmen raises a different question: How has Skull and Bones imprinted them? Neither man responded to repeated requests for interviews for this article. Neither talks publicly about Skull and Bones - except to say he can't talk about it. Both would rather advocate raising taxes. What are the odds?" says Alexandra Robbins, author of the 2002 book "Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power."ĭon't bother asking Bush and Kerry the odds. "What is so staggering about two Bonesmen running against each other for president is that it's a tiny club with 15 members a year and only 600-some living at any time. It's a coincidence of historic political proportions. Never before have two Bonesmen run against each other for the presidency. What remains shrouded in mystery is their membership in Skull and Bones, an elite, covert club for which involvement continues long past the last refrain of "Pomp and Circumstance" on graduation day. It's no secret either that they both come from privileged preppy backgrounds. It's no secret that Bush and Kerry are both Yalies. Looking at the number of powerful people who come out of Yale, Skull and Bones is probably everything it's made out to be." "From what I hear," says the New Haven native, whose grandfather opened the popular eatery 54 years ago, "it's the most powerful secret society at Yale. Rick Beckwith flips sausages and eggs on the grill at the Yankee Doodle diner, a Yale institution three blocks away. But because Skull and Bones doesn't tell you anything, people suspect it." "They're supposed to have Geronimo's bones in there, but they could be anyone's bones," he says.
New Haven cabby Gerald Walthall grins knowingly. "I think it's more of an after-hours club." "I never see anyone around the Tomb," she says. "Once in a while there is a sort of furtive person slinking into this building."īulldozing a stump in front of the Tomb's towering padlocked front doors, grounds worker Dawn Landino says that after 19 years on the job she knows "nothing" about the secret society. "I know it exists but that's about as much as I know," says Glier, who has taught Germanic language and literature at Yale for 34 years. John Kerry, and is imagined by some to be the most potent in the nation's history.
For 138 years it has housed Skull and Bones - a secret society that links President Bush and Sen. On a snowy March morning, Yale professor Ingeborg Glier hurries to class past the grim, practically windowless, brown limestone mausoleum. People passing through on High Street barely notice the cryptlike Greco-Egyptian building called the Tomb.
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