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...Staff writer William C. Marra can be reached at wmarra@fas.harvard.edu...
...immediately and thanked Bush. It's uncertain who was happier; Roberts was fulfilling a lifelong ambition, but Bush was getting his first good news in days. It was a smart political move for a beleaguered president. Roberts seemed to be on his way to confirmation before Chief Justice William Rehnquist died at his Virginia home on Saturday night. Now, barring some unforeseen development, Bush will have his own chief justice in place when the Court begins its new session in October-and he will make his mark on the court for 30 or 40 years. And since Sandra...
...William Hubbs Rehnquist served on the court even longer than Ehrlichman had hoped. When the 80-year-old died Saturday night after battling thyroid cancer, he had been Chief Justice for nearly 19 years and Associate Justice for 14 years before that. Nixon did indeed "salt away" one of the longest serving Chief Justices in history, but was he a "rock-solid conservative...
...Bill Rehnquist was born in Milwaukee to Margery, a part-time translator who spoke five languages, and William Benjamin, who sold paper wholesale. Justice Rehnquist almost never cooperated with profile writers, but when the New York Times Magazine came calling in 1985, he spoke sarcastically of trying to locate the source of his ideas in his past. "It may have something to do with my childhood," he said mockingly. But it's worth noting that Rehnquist was raised in a solidly Republican home and never found reason to reject the Willkie-Hoover-Taft conservatism instilled at the dinner table...
...Rehnquist managed the court with a rare combination of efficiency and amiability, and the other Justices will miss him. Justice William Brennan, the late liberal icon, once called Rehnquist "my best friend up here." Unlike some of his predecessors, Rehnquist was fair about assigning opinion writing and tried to tamp down office politics. "There's no one who doesn't like William Rehnquist," says the University of Virginia's Howard. "He really is someone who is easy to be around and has a very unpretentious and pleasant manner...