Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe is a sort of legal rock star, particularly among liberals. First-year law students he has never met don’t just show up at his door saying, “I want to work for you.” At least they didn’t until March 31, 1989.
Tribe recently retrieved his daily calendar from that year and pointed to the entry for the last day in March. Just above reminders for “Haircut?” and “Write US Atty,” it says, “11 am: Barack Obama (1L),” indicating that this was a first-year law student.
Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe’s calendar for March 31, 1989, marks his first meeting with future President Barack Obama. The exclamation point was to remind Tribe how impressed he was with the first-year law student.
“And then it has a phone number, which I guess is his dorm room,” Tribe pointed out, “and there’s an exclamation point next to it.”
That was to remind Tribe how impressed he was by this skinny kid in jeans, a sweatshirt and an afro.
SOURCE Obama Made A Strong First Impression At Harvard : NPR.