On a warm fall evening in 2004, not long after he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois, Barack Obama attended an intimate Washington dinner party. Seated next to him was Covington & Burling’s Eric Holder Jr.-a high-profile litigation partner and former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration.
The two men chatted about politics, the Justice Department and the law and “just kind of hit it off,” Holder says.
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