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Remembering Rehnquist
Author(s) -
O'CONNOR SANDRA DAY
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of supreme court history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1540-5818
pISSN - 1059-4329
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5818.2006.00116.x
Subject(s) - economic justice , supper , supreme court , evening , law , history , political science , archaeology , physics , astronomy
William Hubbs Rehnquist spent the last thirty‐three years of his life as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court, fifteen as an Associate Justice and eighteen as Chief Justice. I met Bill when I was a freshman at Stanford in 1946. He was attending Stanford and working part time as a “hasher” at my dormitory during the evening meal. He amazed all of the young women by carrying such heavy loads of dishes on his tray. Perhaps that is how he learned to carry all those heavy loads in all of the years that followed. He was tall and good‐looking, and he had a sharp sense of humor.

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