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...survivors of a head-on auto collision during winter break of 1956, which left him with a brain concussion and the other survivor, driver John F. Stevenson ’58, with a fractured jaw and shattered knees. His other two friends in the car, William C. Boyden III ’57 and William S. North III ’58, were killed instantly...
...William C. Boyden...
...watch because he was just so good," Garnett recalls. "It was kind of like if you heard that Tiger was going to be hitting on your home course's driving range. You'd want to go watch him." But Roberts was by no means invincible. Once, recalls C. Boyden Gray, a White House counsel in the first Bush Administration, when the Supreme Court shut Roberts out 9 to 0 in a commercial case, the clients were ranting about the result. "How could we lose 9-0?" they kept demanding. Roberts' wry brush-off response: "Because there were only nine Justices...
...Republican loyalist and canny political strategist, C. Boyden Gray has been quite busy lately. The former White House counsel to the first President Bush heads up the Committee for Justice, an advocacy group that has worked closely with the White House to push Bush 2's most controversial judicial nominees through the Senate. John Podesta has been busy too. The former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton who today leads the liberal Center for American Progress has worked hard to foil Gray. Yet even as the two party generals square off in a battle that has roiled the Senate...
...Former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray, who heads a group that's run ads supporting Bush?s nominees (with fundraising help from Bush's father), complains that the Democrats have taken obstructionism to new lows. "If 51 senators want to vote down an Estrada or Sutton or whoever, they're entitled to do that," he said. "But when Democrats say you need 60 votes? - which is what's required to end a filibuster - that's beyond fair play...