“There was one law clerk applicant who came to interview with me—top rating at Harvard—who treated my secretaries with disdain,” RBG recalled. “As if they were just minions. So that is one very important thing—how you deal with my secretaries. They are not hired help. As I tell my clerks, ‘if push came to shove, I could do your work—but I can’t do without my secretaries.’”
