Word: souter
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...Harvard College, Souter joined Hasty Pudding and majored in philosophy. He wrote his senior thesis on Justice Holmes' belief that a judge should not be influenced by either politics or ideology. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. For a graduation gift, friends put together a scrapbook of made-up news stories featuring Souter as the lawyer he hoped to be. One headline read, DAVID SOUTER NOMINATED TO THE SUPREME COURT...
...Rhodes scholarship to Magdalen College at Oxford. His classmate Bill Bardel, now a managing director of Shearson Lehman Hutton, recalls that Souter belonged to a group that would return so late to their rooms after visiting the local pubs that they would have to climb a ladder to get over the locked gates. Back at Harvard Law School, Souter played the role of courtly gentleman, wearing a three-piece suit to parties and telling stories in his strong New England accent. Says Levine: "No one I've ever met is more fun at a party; he has that British satirical...
After graduating, Souter returned home to Weare, N.H., and took a job at Orr & Reno, a Concord law firm. But he was not happy in private practice. In 1968 he took the turn in the road that would eventually land him in the White House chatting with the President, by joining the New Hampshire attorney general's staff. Shortly after Warren Rudman became state attorney general in 1970, he plucked Souter from a group of assistants to become his top aide. The thoroughly scholarly Souter soon became the perfect complement to the gregarious, politically wired Rudman. The two, along with...
...Rudman resigned as attorney general and four years later ran for a Senate seat. Thomson reluctantly went along with Rudman's advice to appoint Souter to the job. Over the next two years Souter became involved in several controversial cases, largely at Thomson's behest. In 1978 Souter's staff defended the Governor in a suit to prevent him from lowering the American and state flags over state buildings on Good Friday. In another Thomson crusade, Souter's staff unsuccessfully defended the state's attempts to prosecute residents who for religious reasons covered up the state motto -- "Live Free...
...those cases, Souter seems to have been acting as a lawyer putting forth the best argument he could on behalf of his client. But friends still talk | about the zeal Souter brought to one of the few cases he personally argued as attorney general: whether the state or the Federal Government had jurisdiction over Lake Winnipesaukee. Combining his love of New Hampshire with his passion for history, Souter headed off to museums and historical societies to dredge up scraps of information. He spent weeks with ancient maps spread out over his office, scanning each meticulously to ferret out tiny differences...