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...summer of 1989, Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin, a prestigious Chicago law firm that also happened to employ a young intellectual-property lawyer and Harvard Law grad named Michelle Robinson. Obama was offered a permanent job at Sidley, though senior partner Newton Minow wasn't surprised when he turned the firm down; the two had often discussed the intern's political plans, and Minow had pledged to help Obama in his pursuit of a place in public life. But Obama didn't just turn the firm down. Minow, a former Federal Communication Commission chairman, recalls that Obama told...
Martha L. Minow, who also taught Obama at the Law School, said that the senator’s campaign “echoes qualities” that she “saw in him as a student...
Obama has “an amazing ability to combine vision with analysis, emotion with reason, and hope with good sense,” said Minow, whose well-connected father, Newton, was an early and prominent backer of Obama in Chicago...
...campaign trail. “Obama’s campaign is indeed consulting widely, and that includes faculty members who are strong supporters (including me) and others who have not committed to any candidate but are glad to give advice,” Smith Professor of Law Martha L. Minow wrote in an e-mail...
...Wilkins ’77. Both Wilkins and his wife gave Obama $2,300, the maximum contribution allowed for the primary, as did Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 and his wife, who both helped organize the event. Smith Professor of Law Martha L. Minow donated $4,600, half of which is reserved for the general election and can only be spent if Obama wins the Democratic nomination. One of the more surprising $2,300 contributions to Obama came from Anne Gergen. She is the wife of Kennedy School Professor of Public Service David R. Gergen...