Circumstances are the creatures of men.
Rogers entered his father's bank at age 19, eventually becoming head of the firm at age 30 when his father died. After attending Barnard College and getting her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, she worked at the Department of Defense and taught at Georgetown University. A Democratic activist in her early professional career, she was so opposed to President Carter's foreign policy that she became Ronald Reagan's foreign policy advisor during the 1980 campaign. After the election, she became America's first female ambassador to the United Nations, serving from 1981 to 1985. In 1985 she formally became a Republican, and continued to comment on political affairs.