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Is an American attorney and former public official who, from August 26, , to June 1, , was chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).!
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Manuel Roig-FranziaThe Washington Post
It begins with a father who wants a boy.
She was born in San Francisco. Her father was a welfare agency executive for a long time. And he thought it would be great to have a son.
She was born in San Francisco.
His best friend at the time was named Brooks, and he thought, "I'll name my son Brooks." But he ended up with a girl and he named her Brooksley at the last minute, feminizing it.
And why is this significant at all? I think that as you look at the trajectory of Brooksley Born, you see a situation in which this woman is forever coming up against the question of her identity as a woman in a man's world.
She goes to Stanford; she attends the law school there.
And on one of her first days, one of her male classmates comes up to her and says: "You are taking the place of a man who will surely be going to Vietnam and risking his life for America. You are taking his place. If you weren't here, he might not be over there risking his life." So can