The Institute of Politics (IOP) has hosted presidents, news-making conferences, heads of state and Chris Matthews' Hardball, but never a presidential debate.
Chances are that it never will.
The size of available facilities, inconvenience to students and lack of organizer interest are all factors that have helped Harvard shy away from the grand-daddy of them all.
On Sept. 14 campaign representatives of Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore '69 agreed to four debates--all at institutions of higher learning--as scheduled by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). The first will be held next Tuesday at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.
Twelve colleges and universities had presented the CPD with detailed proposals.
Harvard never even made an overture.
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