Curated playlist
20th-century American lawyers
- Richard NixonRichard Nixon was the only U.S. president to resign. He left office on the 9th of August, 1974, over Watergate.
- Barack ObamaObama rejected a plan to bomb a compound in Pakistan and sent Navy SEALs instead. The 2011 raid killed Osama bin Laden.
- Bill ClintonBill Clinton was born three months after his father died in a car crash.
- Phillip FormanJudge Phillip Forman swore in Albert Einstein as an American citizen in 1940. He later did the same for Kurt Godel.
- James ComeyJames Comey was addressing agents at the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office on the 9th of May 2017. Television news reports flashed word that President Donald Trump had fired him. He was the seventh director in the bureau's history, and fewer…
- Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Warren began her bankruptcy research thinking most filers were gaming the system. She found abuse was rare.
- Adam SilverFour days after a racist recording leaked, Adam Silver banned Donald Sterling from the NBA for life.
- Allison ShearmurAllison Shearmur broke into Hollywood by winning a campus contest.
- John GrishamJohn Grisham hid in a restroom during a gunfight at 17. That scare pushed him toward college, law and novels.
- Lee EastmanLee Eastman bought Buddy Holly's music catalogue for Paul McCartney. He had asked McCartney which artists he loved most.
- Thurgood MarshallThurgood Marshall won 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court. He later became a justice there.
- David SternDavid Stern began shipping VHS tapes of NBA games to Chinese state television in 1987.
- Paul TagliabueTwo days after September 11, 2001, NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue canceled that weekend's games.
- Robert MuellerRobert Mueller was the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Senate confirmed him on the 2nd of August 2001, by a vote of 98-0. Not one senator opposed him. That kind of agreement was no accident of timing. Four…
- George MikanThe NBA widened its foul lane to slow down one player, George Mikan. The rule was formally dubbed "The Mikan Rule."
- Larry O'BrienThe NBA championship trophy is named for a political operative, Larry O'Brien.