Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.
I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.
In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.
My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.
Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.