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In nov 1971, when William Rehnquist was nominated to fill a co-employee Justice couch on the Supreme Court docket, the Senate raised no major objections, and a little-known Helper Attorney General found himself at the pinnacle of the judiciary. It seemed an easy choice of a comparatively young, academically spectacular and politically seasoned attorney who shared Richard Nixon's viewpoint of "rigorous constructionism." As Nixon's White House Counsel John Dean reveals for the very first time that the choice was not straightforward. The simple truth is that Nixon's nomination was the result of a remarkable, Nixonian rollercoaster. Rehnquist was a last-minute longshot who had once been dismissed by Nixon as a "clown." Only John Dean -- Rehnquist's champion at the time -- knows the entire, improbable story. Dean's gripping story is packed with revelations such as Nixon's plan to pack the judge by forcing resignations, before his inauguration. Using newly released White House tapes, and a large number of previously unseen documents, Dean puts listeners immediately in the Oval Office with Nixon, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Rehnquist, and the applicants they considered. The Rehnquist Choice fills in a long-missing explanation of the making of the man who wrote almost all opinion in Bush v. Gore and presided above the impeachment trial of William Jefferson Clinton.
