Nitpick: Chief Justice of the United States: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2975/who-is-america-s-top-judge
Why not? It’s work. You think he could sit on the veranda sipping mint julips, sending and receiving instructions and reports via cellhone back then?
He was a wealthy and self-employed. He did as much work as he wanted to do. He could have hired a manager to do his managing. I don’t think of “real jobs” as ones that you CAN just quit a lunchtime if you want to and go sip mint julips on the veranda.
I see any legitimate job, regardless of its prestige status or wealth involved for the person performing the work, as a real job.
Buxib, Mudge… It’s worth notingt, too, that ‘rainmakers’ - ‘celebrity lawyers who attract clients – do play a ‘real’ role at major law firms. Their job is to land and schmooze the clients; the other senior partners’,v to work with the rainmakers and the junior partners/associates to assure that commitments are kept and the best advice given, and the junior partners’ and associates’ jobs are to carry out the actual work involved in what the others commit the firm to, Each has an important role in keep[ing it a financially sound, productive practice.
He did actual work, including at least one case where he argued before the Supreme Court. Nixon was never a wealthy man.
Of course not. Mint juleps weren’t invented until 1842.
Yhis should of course be Nixon, Mudge. (I gate developiing cataracts.)_
I came in here to mention Jimmy Carter. Anyone who thinks Habitat for Humanity isn’t a “real job” should have their head examined.
Hey, mine too! I’ve got a picture of my dad shaking Ford’s hand at a corporate event.
I’d call it a real job, but at the same time it doesn’t really fit the spirit of the OP. The fact that Taft was a former president almost certainly put him at the top of the Short Short Short List for potential Supreme Court Justices.
My parents have a photo of them with Ford taken at an anniversary event at the law school both he and my father attended.