Warren Burnett

July 21, 2016

“At the end of Burnett’s speech, the chairman of the Coordinating Board said, “Mr. Burnett, this has indeed been a most impressive presentation. I–I am left with just one question to ask you. Do you honestly believe there is justification for a four-year college in Odessa?” Burnett beamed and replied, “Mr. Chairman, there is enough ignorance in Odessa to justify an eight-year college.” Got the school too.”

Read Online

Molly Ivins, “A Creature of the Courts: Warren Burnett,” Texas Observer, October 11, 2002, accessed July 21, 2016, https://www.texasobserver.org/1132-a-creature-of-the-courts-warren-burnett/.

Also Published In

Molly Ivins, “Warren Burnett,” in Who Let the Dogs In? Incredible Political Animals I Have Known (New York: Random House, 2004), 344-5.

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