Fitzgerald Gets Interviewed By Student At His Alma Mater.

Source: Regis High School

Patrick Fitzgerald sits down for an interview, but this time it's from a senior at his former high school.

He's a pretty cool guy for taking time out of his busy schedule to answer questions for the school's newspaper.

Patrick Fitzgerald '78, a well-respected and diligent federal prosecutor, was appointed by George W. Bush as Special Counsel for the ongoing "CIA Leak Case" of October 30, 2003.

Fitzgerald grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn; his father was a doorman at 14 East 75th Street in Manhattan. An article about Fitzgerald in Vanity Fair adds that Fitzgerald himself worked as a doorman during one summer at 520 East 72 Street. On his astounding success, Fitzgerald made one thing clear: "Regis has a much greater impact on students than they realize when they are there."

"I appreciated Regis much more once I had graduated," Fitzgerald noted. "You have nearly a century of people going through the school for free, getting a great education."

In a tribute to Regis faculty past and present, Fitzgerald said, "there are great teachers at Regis who teach because they want to teach, although they could be doing something else; they are extremely selfless." Fitzgerald sees Regians as "down-to-earth city kids who go to school and work hard."

As Fitzgerald went on to college and graduate school, he "felt that Regis made more of an impact than other great institutions because it grabbed me in my teens, teaching me to work hard and think." After Regis, Fitzgerald attended Amherst College and Harvard Law.

Fitzgerald admitted, "In college, I started to rethink my assumption from high school that I wanted to be a lawyer after being involved in debate at Regis. At the end of college, I was considering if I wanted to study economics or perhaps go into business."

In the end, Fitzgerald made the choice that he found "more comfortable." He explained, "I entered law school with some doubts that I wanted to be a lawyer. And I also graduated law school with some doubts."

You can read the complete interview if you click on the source link.

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