The bold did not happen.
The facts: Elizabeth Warren and her Native American ties
Any special treatment?
Several people involved in hiring her at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania lent their weight to that claim.
Harvard Law School professor Charles Fried, who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan and was part of the committee that put Warren in a tenure position, said in a written statement that her ethnicity never came up during the process.
Fried, who donated $250 to Warren's campaign, told the
Republican, a Springfield, Mass., newspaper, in 2012, "This stuff I hear that she was an affirmative action hire, got some kind of a boost, it is so ludicrous and so desperately stupid and ignorant, it just boggles the mind."
Asked about Warren’s minority status, Robert H. Mundheim, the dean who hired Warren at the University of Pennsylvania, told the
Boston Globe that summer, "‘I don't think I ever knew that she had those attributes and that would not have made much of a difference."
A number of news organizations interviewed dozens of faculty and students from the three law schools where Warren taught, and no evidence emerged that any claim about her ethnic roots played a role in the hiring process.