When Clint Eastwood wasn’t yelling at an empty chair and debating an invisible President Barack Obama during his recent tour de force at the Republican National Convention in August, he was taking shots at lawyers. “I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to be the president, anyway,” said Eastwood. “They are always devil’s advocating this and bifurcating this and bifurcating that.” Unfortunately for Clint, both Obama and Mitt Romney have J.D.s from Harvard Law School. But the losing candidate can rest assured that there will probably be a nice, well-paid job at a prominent Am Law 100 firm waiting for him if he wants it. After all, there’s plenty of precedent.
Charles Evans Hughes
GOP nominee for president, 1916.
