the chief prosecutor at nurnberg. what i am going to do is talk incidencesspecific or episodes in his life advising president roosevelt. my main goal is for us to have fun, ok? but i also want us to learn some about the nature of the advisory process, and some of the ethical that legalroblems advisors run into. jackson was born in 1892. he lived on a farm in western new york. his father was well-to-do, but not wealthy. when you look at his childhood, a pastoral idol of swimming, skating, hunting, horsemanship, he loved horses, he wrote horses his whole life. oddly enough, he never went to college, answer to need never went to law school. that was not unusual over 100 years ago. kedtead, he basically cler with a lawyer. he did receive an astonishingly good liberal arts education from two high school teachers whom he loved. and after graduating from high school, he continued to study for a year, getting a very good liberal arts education. theecame a lawyer by 1920's, he was an immensely successful attorney in western ne