George Bush actually said...

I am asking the Congress to consider the enclosed request, for an additional $51.8 billion, for emergency FY 2005 supplemental resources.

It was more than a half-century ago that Bill Rehnquist first came to the Supreme Court as a law clerk.

That character was clear in the young man of 18 who signed up for the Army Air Corps during the Second World War.

He was prudent in exercising judicial power and firm in defending judicial independence.