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Michael Steele (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

"I partied my behind off. I heard there were classes, and some people told me I should go. But I was having a good time."

-- Michael Steele telling students at the District's H.D. Woodson High how he got kicked out of Johns Hopkins despite being freshman class president, on C-SPAN's "Students & Leaders," which airs Monday. Part of the RNC chair's message on "perseverance": He called the dean every day for five days, got straight A's in summer school ... and eventually was readmitted.