In any other administration, the recruitment of Eli Nachmany, a 23-year-old with virtually no higher education experience, would have been remarkable, writes alexnazaryan
WASHINGTON — What does it take to get a job working on higher education policy in the White House? Ambition helps. So does, apparently, writing an awkwardly honest book about failing to gain admittance to an Ivy League college.
Even before coming to the White House, Nachmany enjoyed a relative level of prominence within the Trump administration, having been hired at the tender age of 21 to serve as a speechwriter for Ryan Zinke, the Interior secretary who was forced to resign from his position last December amid ethics investigations. The news of his move to the White House was initially reported by Politico Playbook, which described Nachmany as “detailed” to the White House from the Department of Interior.
But those do not appear to be Nachmany’s concerns, judging by his sole contribution on the topic. “Good Enough” — the clearest guide to Nachmany’s thoughts on higher education — was published in 2015 by Outskirts Press, a self-publishing company based in Denver. The 140-page book has 11 reviews on Amazon, with an average rating of 2.5 stars.
By his own admission, Nachmany was not exactly Nobel material while a student at Demarest High School in Demarest, N.J., a wealthy bedroom community for professionals many of whom work in Manhattan. The average household income there is about $150,000, triple the national average. Nachmany, who is now one of the few White House officials explicitly working on higher education, does not appear to be perturbed by the state of things, judging by his book. “I wanted clout,” he wrote, describing his motivation behind his college applications in the fall of 2012. “I wanted a brand name university that would impress people.” It is not clear yet how that desire for clout will translate into Nachmany’s work at the White House.
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