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Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics.
Robert Reich
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Robert Reich
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: June 24
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Former United States Secretary Of Labor
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Robert Bernard Reich
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