Politics and Policy

339: Robert Reich

After serving as Secretary of Labor, he resumed teaching at UC Berkeley, gracefully relinquishing power, like Cincinnatus returning to the plow. Or not. “Actually,“ he says, “I have much more power as a professor than I did as a cabinet secretary.” Training a student cadre in the Oakland hills? Encouraging rigorous thought? One of those.

Person: Marriner Eccles
Place: Wheeler Hall, Berkeley
Thing: The Voyage of Life
Randy’s Person: William Hawes