At the end of the war, he settled in Dallas, where he and a fellow FBI agent, Richard A. After completing his law degree, Strauss was hired as a special agent by the FBI, and served in the FBI throughout World War II. In law school at the University of Texas, he met another student who would have a large impact on his career, John B. While still an undergraduate, he volunteered for Lyndon Johnson's first congressional campaign. In his sophomore year at the University of Texas in Austin, Strauss campaigned for a state assembly candidate and was rewarded with a part-time job as a Committee Clerk in the state legislature. From an early age he was an outgoing, gregarious person, and his mother soon predicted that he would find a career in politics or diplomacy. Although both of Strauss's parents were Jewish, in the small Texas towns where he was raised there were no synagogues, and he received no formal religious instruction. Robert Strauss's father, who had immigrated to the United States from Germany as a young man, opened a small general store in Stamford. When he was a year old, his family moved to the small town of Hamlin, north of Abilene, and later to the slightly larger nearby town of Stamford. Robert Schwarz Strauss was born in Lockhart, Texas, south of Austin. Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship.Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative.Space Security, Safety, and Sustainability.Technology, Security, and Global Affairs.
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