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Attorneys at Work

Columnist Gail Collins asks what makes us prefer lawyers as politicians even though the story often ends the same way: with failure.

Columnist Gail Collins asks what makes us prefer lawyers as politicians even though the story often ends the same way: with failure. “There is something about attorneys general that makes everybody want to nominate them for higher office, even though it almost always ends badly. In New York, our past experience along this line runs from Aaron Burr to Eliot Spitzer. Wouldn’t you think that would have taught us something?”


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