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According to Karch, Gonzales didn’t broadcast his political views. “He had a very ready smile and he was very agreeable—but not a real talkative guy,” Karch said.
After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1982, Gonzales rose through the ranks of a prestigious Houston firm to serve as legal counsel to George W. Bush during his first term as Texas governor.
Gonzales helped Bush get out of jury duty in a 1996 drunk driving case—a strategically-key maneuver that allowed the then-governor to avoid revealing under oath that he himself had been arrested for DUI in 1976.
Bush tapped Gonzales to be Texas’ secretary of state in 1997 and named him to the State Supreme Court in 1999.
When Bush won the presidency in 2000, he brought Gonzales with him to Washington to serve as White House counsel.