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...Mueller's resume, however, suggests he is tough enough for the burden. Although born to an affluent family and educated at Princeton, Mueller enlisted in the Marines in 1967 and earned a rack of medals for his Vietnam service. After law school at the University of Virginia and a stint in private practice, he became a federal prosecutor and then U.S. Attorney in Boston. "It seemed to me he stood head and shoulders above all the other persons mentioned," says Dick Thornburgh, the former Attorney General who tapped Mueller to become Assistant Attorney General for the criminal division...
...When Bob Mueller took over the Justice Department's criminal division in 1990, his subordinates teased him about his patrician manner and the pressed jeans that were his idea of a dress-down Saturday in the office. His high-Wasp name, Robert Swan Mueller III, led them to call him Bobby Three Sticks...
...there was nothing effete about Mueller, a decorated Marine, who handled cases ranging from the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 to the prosecution of Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. He smashed through bureaucratic obstacles so enthusiastically that his deputy, Dave Margolis, warned him gently that if he didn't forgo a few battles, Washington would smash him. "I don't bruise easily," Mueller replied. The 56-year-old prosecutor is going to need his thick skin. Last week, when George W. Bush nominated him to succeed Louis Freeh as director of the FBI, Mueller prepared to take over an organization...
When the Bush Administration left office in 1993, Mueller went into private practice but returned to government work two years later, taking a job as a lowly prosecutor chasing murderers in the District of Columbia Superior Court. He told a friend, "There are just too many people dying violently in this city." He loved to answer his phone, "Mueller, Homicide...
...Mueller's critics are skeptical. "The cynics are saying, let him take over the FBI, it'll be great theater, and he'll run it into the ground in six months," says one former prosecutor who found Mueller overbearing. But his friends insist that behind his earnest demeanor, Mueller has the balance, wisdom and wry sense of humor to manage the task...