Word: boyden
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...that meeting Bush huddled with Sununu, Vice President Dan Quayle, White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray and Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, looking over dossiers on about a dozen possibilities whom the Administration had singled out over the past 18 months. Sununu held back during the discussions, letting Gray and Thornburgh make the case for Souter. After the group had narrowed the list to about eight candidates, Bush asked for further specifics on several of them, then retired to Camp David for the weekend. Sununu went to work behind the scenes on Souter's behalf...
Bush has been preparing for that possibility almost from the day he took office. He asked his aides then to assemble dossiers on potential appointees. At 8 a.m. on Saturday, a team led by Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, White House counsel C. Boyden Gray and chief of staff John Sununu met with Bush to sort through those names. Bush had declared on Friday, "I want somebody who will be on there not to legislate from the bench but to faithfully interpret the Constitution. So that gives me a wide latitude." During his 1988 campaign, Bush was less fuzzy about...