Harvard Dragged Deeper Into Trump’s ‘America First’ Visa Fight (3)

For Lloyd Blankfein, Harvard University’s appeal to foreign students is inextricably linked to its national identity.

“It is an American institution that attracts foreigners precisely because it is an American university,” the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. chief said in an interview, echoing a message he delivered to the school’s president last year. Blankfein had urged it to prepare for a coming attack, warning that if Harvard failed to define itself as a distinctly American force working for the public good, its detractors would advance a crippling counter-narrative.

Almost a year on, the White House is doing just that.

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