 He attended the University of Virginia, where he was managing editor of the student newspaper "The Cavalier Daily" and toured statewide with the five-piece folk group The Lovin' Sound.Graduating in 1970 with a degree in history, he attended Columbia Law School and joined the Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy.He worked summers as a reporter for the "Hartford Courant" in 1969 and "Newsweek" in Atlanta (1970) and Washington, DC (1971), for whom he covered the Pentagon Papers trial.