{"id":2062,"date":"2012-05-22T08:30:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2012-05-22T08:30:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T12:30:58","slug":"obama-made-a-strong-first-impression-at-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/05\/obama-made-a-strong-first-impression-at-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Made A Strong First Impression At Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe is a sort of legal rock star, particularly among liberals. First-year law students he has never met don&#8217;t just show up at his door saying, &#8220;I want to work for you.&#8221; At least they didn&#8217;t until March 31, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Tribe recently retrieved his daily calendar from that year and pointed to the entry for the last day in March. Just above reminders for &#8220;Haircut?&#8221; and &#8220;Write US Atty,&#8221; it says, &#8220;11 am: Barack Obama (1L),&#8221; indicating that this was a first-year law student.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/05\/22\/153214284\/obamas-harvard-days-began-with-exclamation-point?ft=1&amp;f=1001\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/obama_calendar1.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then it has a phone number, which I guess is his dorm room,&#8221; Tribe pointed out, &#8220;and there&#8217;s an exclamation point next to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was to remind Tribe how impressed he was by this skinny kid in jeans, a sweatshirt and an afro.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/05\/22\/153214284\/obamas-harvard-days-began-with-exclamation-point?ft=1&amp;f=1001\">Obama Made A Strong First Impression At Harvard : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe is a sort of legal rock star, particularly among liberals. First-year law students he has never met don&#8217;t just show up at his door saying, &#8220;I want to work for you.&#8221; At least they didn&#8217;t until March 31, 1989. Tribe recently retrieved his daily calendar from that year and pointed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,20],"tags":[183,1209,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}