Clinton's People: Robert Reich

Robert Reich wrote and directed his first play in the ninth grade, and since then he has seldom strayed from the footlights: as a 26-year-old lawyer arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court; as a popular lecturer in political economy at Harvard; as a best-selling and prolific author and essayist, television commentator and corporate consultant. Built like a jockey (4 ft. 10 in. and wiry) and bursting with humor and energy, Reich could always attract and hold an audience, even when playing honky-tonk piano for friends on weekends. And for the past 24 years, he has won some of his loudest applause...