“It certainly wasn’t something we talked about, but it’s not at all different from the type of community work we did when I knew him,” Hartigan says. “Everything I’ve done with him has been dealing with people and doing things to be active in the community, and I think in the better sense of what they do, that is what politicians do.”
“From a pure, personality perspective, this is somebody who in pretty much every respect is built for [pubic office] in ways more than he even knows,” his classmate says.
—Staff writer Nicholas P. Fandos can be reached at nicholasfandos@college.harvard.edu.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
CORRECTION: April 29
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Harvard Law School students who participate in the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau do not represent their clients in court. In fact, they do represent clients in trials.