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His Harvard Law School connection is his most enduring, yet least-known, personal network. See also: SCOTUS considers Obama citizenship
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Transition News 12/05
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NYT describes Obama's breakneck pace of appointments. Grassroots leaders meet to discuss how they can have Obama's ear. Henry Kissinger praises Obama's national security picks. Don't let the economy get you down: Obama can fulfill his promises. The Harvard buds who are advising Obama. There's a debate over who should head the FDA--and Congress is letting Obama know about it. Possible trade rep Becerra has ties to controversial clemency case. Slate shows you ...
Carol Platt Liebau: When Good Love Goes Bad
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... It's possible they needn't worry. An awful lot of policymaking is done at sub-Cabinet level, and it's entirely likely that the less high profile appointments will be substantially to the left of those we've already seen. What's more, if you look at the Harvard classmates with whom Obama has surrounded himsel f, they are true blue liberals (a couple of them, Tom Perelli and Chris Lu, are very fine people). From his history, that (and even left of it) is the milieu in which Obama seems most comfortable. All that being said, as I argued ...
Obama's Harvard Law Mafia
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The family grows with two new transition announcements: Elena Kagan, Solicitor General Kagan, the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law, is currently the 11th Dean of Harvard Law School. Kagan first came to Harvard Law School as a visiting professor in 1999 and became Professor of Law in 2001. She has taught administrative law, constitutional law, civil procedure, and seminars on issues involving the separation of powers. She was appointed Dean of the Law School in 2003. From 1995 to 1999, Kagan served in the White ...
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