America’s youngest national security advisor, former Hillary Clinton and Amy Klobuchar aide Jake Sullivan, took center stage at Harvard University on Tuesday to share with Kennedy School of Government professor Graham Allison some of his greatest hits from the Biden administration.

Sullivan’s appearance preceded President Donald Trump saying on Wednesday that the venerated American university has “lost its way” and may be stripped of its tax exempt status.

Harvard has named Sullivan the inaugural Distinguished Kissinger Professor in Residence, and Allison, whose 1971 book ‘The Essence of Decision’ detailed the brinksmanship inside the Kennedy White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis, reminded the audience of roughly 50 people how central Harvard has been to American foreign policy over the years.

Eager to insert himself into a continuum of figures like Kissinger, former Harvard dean and Kennedy national security advisor McGeorge Bundy, and others, Sullivan used his first public speaking engagement since his appointment to remind the august company of his own contributions to making America respected around the world.

While Sullivan did not expound on his role in America’s disastrous and humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, he did seize the opportunity to say how “very proud” he was of forging a kowtow policy towards the Peoples Republic of China.

By bowing and scraping before his Chinese counterparts at a summit in Anchorage, Alaska early in the Biden administration, Sullivan earned the opportunity to later bow and scrape before Chinese President Xi Jinping in August of last year.

President Biden once called Sullivan “one of the greatest talents of his generation,” in an unwitting snub to his son, Hunter.

A key policy advisor to Hillary Clinton in her unsuccessful 2016 presidential bid, Sullivan played a leading role in generating and disseminating disinformation about then candidate Trump colluding with Russia.

While Sullivan spoke, a handful of Harvard students protested his hiring outside the not-particularly-packed venue.

But the university now has bigger problems with dissatisfaction about Sullivan’s hiring, or whether he is big enough to fill Kissinger’s shoes.

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Education sent Harvard a letter listing conditions for it to continue receiving federal support. When Harvard balked at these, the Trump administration announced it was freezing over $2 billion earmarked for the university.

Harvard now puts itself on equivalent footing with Maine Governor Janet Mills, whose attorney general on Friday also told the Department of Education to pound sand regarding its insistence that then state’s schools comply with Title IX guidance on female sports.

Unlike Maine, Harvard may be in a stronger position to assert the moral high ground against Trump. It’s endowment is estimated at $53 billion, which exceeds the gross domestic product of a number of countries around the world.

During the first Trump administration, Sullivan was stabled at Yale University, proving the old adage the medal will always find its hero.