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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...
...nominee pushed by conservative White House Chief of Staff John Sununu and approved by pro-lifer Bush is unlikely to be pro-choice. But neither Souter nor Bush has chosen to disclose the nominee's opinion on Roe v. Wade, Bush dismissing the issue as unimportant to confirmation...
...United States has long maintained that the Soviets have yet to undertake strong reforms geared towards a market economy and that it would not be beneficial to have an infusion of capital into a system that is not geared to utilizing that capital," said Sununu...
...Sununu added that the United States cannot begin aiding the Soviets until they stop funding enemies of the United States such as Cuba...
...Certainly, the assistance sent by the Soviets to Cuba and the spending within the Soviet Union itself on its own defense structure, obviously it's felt by the United States that these funds can be better used domestically by the Soviets to reform their own economy," Sununu said...