On Aug 1, 5:57 pm, J a c k wrote:
From an interview found online:

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You went to the Air Force Academy, but you didn't stay there, did you?

Alberto Gonzales: No, I didn't. I was there for two years.

The (Air Force) Academy was tough for me because there's such a
concentration on engineering and physics and chemistry, and my
strengths lie in English and history and political science and law and
government. And so I did well in terms of being on the dean's list
every semester, but I struggled. It was hard. I had to work very, very
hard. I was the freshman class council president, and so I assumed
responsibility early while I was at the Academy. Because I did as well
as I did, I was able to participate in a gliding program during one
summer, so I learned how to fly gliders. I mean it was a great experience.

But I started thinking things over, probably towards the end of my
freshman year or the beginning of my sophomore year. I really began
wondering whether or not I should pursue a military career. I realized
as I was taking some of my history courses and political science
courses at the Academy, this was something that I had more of an
interest in. And so I thought about applying to a school, Rice
University in Houston, and this was a school I did used to dream about
attending when I was a small boy, because when I was 12 and 13, I got
a job selling soft drinks at their football games, Rice University
football games. And I would watch the students stroll back to the
campus, their dorm, and I would dream about what it would be like to
be a student there. But that was it, it was just a dream. But when I
was at the Academy and began thinking about my future, I sort of put
it in God's hands and applied to transfer to one school, and that was
Rice. And if I got accepted, then I knew it was meant to be to go back
home to Houston and maybe pursue a career in law, and if I wasn't
accepted, then I would stay at the Academy -- and hopefully at the
time, I was very interested in becoming a fighter pilot -- and so I
was accepted, and then I transferred to Rice University.

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/p...mber/gon0int-1

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Jack

.... so Alberto, our Attorney General, was a glider pilot! Now that
makes him so much more sympathetic and trustworthy to me. There's
just no way he could be lying to congress...
At least he has a nice hobby to go back to once he is done saving the
country.

Herb