Frederic René Coudert Jr.was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1947 to 1959 though better known for his role in New York's Rapp-Coudert Committee... (wikipedia)
It was young, idealistic and wonderful. But idealists have a hard time in this world.
It's very hard to run an organization if you have too many satellite offices,
In the major international firms, what's different today is you have more of a corporate-type organizational structure,