in history from Stanford University in 1970, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year.

[4] He earned an M.B.A. in 1975 from Harvard Business School, where he was future president George W. Bush's roommate.

[3] He lived abroad in Florence and Milan for two years during his time at Stanford, and became fluent in the Italian language.

[5] Before that he was a managing director in the Investment Banking Division of Dean Witter Reynolds.

[6] In 2002, President Bush appointed Spogli to a three-year term with the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship board.