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ORAL HISTORY OF THEODORE B. OLSON, ESQ.
Index
Abrams, J.J., 192
Acosta, Jim, 256
Aetna v. Lavoie (case), 65
Alabama Supreme Court, 65
Alinsky, Saul, 97, 105
Alito, Samuel, 175, 239, 247
American Spectator (newspaper and website), 76, 144
anti-commandeering principle, 247, 249
Arkansas Project, 91, 144
Ashcroft, John, 151
Austin (case), 110, 137, 234-37
Baker, Jim, 112, 116, 137
Bakke (case), 173
Bank Markaz (case), 230
Barbour, Haley, 87, 108, 123
Baumbusch, Peter, 36
Bentsen, Lloyd, 74
Bevry, Florence, 2
Bevry, Yngve, 2
materrnal grandfather, 2
Biden, Joe, 258
Bird, Rose, 14
Blankenhorn, David, 217-18, 221
Bloody Thursday, 29
Boies, David, 131-34, 196, 198, 200, 207, 214, 217, 225, 227, 257
Boies, Mary, 197
Bork, Mary Ellen, 163-65
Bork, Robert, 204
Bossie, David, 232-34
Boutrous, Ted, 183, 198, 201, 205, 224, 253, 256
Brady, Tom, 242
Breyer, Stephen, 134, 137, 177, 238, 247
Brock, David, 91, 143
Brown, Jerry, 32
Buchanan, Pat, 118
Buckley v. Valeo (case), 240
Burger, Warren, 36
Bush v. Gore (case), 96, 114, 163-64, 180, 229, 239, 257-58
Article II and Safe Harbor arguments, 127
Equal Protection and Due Process, 133
Equal Protection Clause, 122, 127
Fourteenth Amendment issues, 133
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hanging chads, 118
Safe Harbor, 123, 127-28, 138
Bush, George H.W., 34-35, 73, 86, 90
Bush, George W., 109-10
Butler, Sam, 20
California Supreme Court, 32
Carcieri (case), 230
Carolene Products (case), 206, 213
Carvin, Mike, 121, 124
CERCLA See Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
Christian Legal Society v. Martinez (case), 207
Christie, Chris, 246, 248, 250, 253
Citizens United (case), 232-34, 237-40, 242
documentary, 233
Clement, Paul, 168-69, 171, 226, 244-46, 249
Clinton, Bill, 90, 99
Clinton, Hillary, 96, 105-06
emails, 46
Collins, Susan, 241
Commerce Clause, 247
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 46
Comstock, Barbara, 92, 162, 164
Condit, Gary, 108
conscripting or commandeering, 248
Cooper, Chuck, 210, 212, 214-15, 217, 222-23
Cooper, Matthew, 185
Cortes, Luis, 251
Cott, Nancy, 219
Covington & Burling (law firm), 65-68
Crovitz, Gordon, 86
Curb, Mike, 32
D’Amato, Al, 93
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) (case), 250
Davidson, Jon, 204
Deaver, Michael, 57
Dershowitz, Alan, 119
Detroit Republican convention 1980, 35
Dezzani, Dave, 14
Dingell, John, 46
Dinkins, Carol, 47
Dodyk, Paul, 18
Dole, Bob, 108
Donovan, Ray, 64
Dowd, Maureen, 223
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Dreamers, 250-53
Dred Scott (case), 238
Drinan, Father Robert, 80
Due Process Clause, 114, 194
Eagle Publishing, 104
EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), 87-88
Eisenhower administration
executive order firing gays, 220
Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow,169
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), 47-49, 65
Equal Protection Clause, 114, 123, 189, 194
Ethics in Government Act, 56-57, 61
Evans, Don, 139
executive privilege, 45-50, 54
Face the Nation (television news program), 132
Federal Elections Commission, 232
federalism, 229, 247-48
Federalist Society, 86, 96, 210
Feinberg, Kenneth, 244
Fifth Amendment, 93-94
First Amendment, 40, 95, 186, 214, 233-34, 237
Fisher (case), 81-82, 173
Fisk, Robert, 92
Florida Supreme Court, 120-138
Ford, Gerald, 29, 33
Foster, Vince, 97
Fourth Amendment, 240
Free Flow of Information Act, 184
Free Speech movement, 22
Garment, Leonard, 78
Garre, Greg, 171
Gates, Bill, 218
gay marriage
procreation argument, 215
GibsonDunn (law firm), 18, 20, 31, 35, 69, 77, 102, 111, 142, 147, 183, 225
Ginsburg, Ben, 112, 137
Ginsburg, Marty, 86
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 56, 79, 85, 137, 207
Giuliani, Rudolph, 56
Goldwater, Barry, 17, 21, 195
Gonzalez, Al, 172
Gore, Al, 109, 114, 116, 118-19, 127, 139-40, 180
Gorsuch, Anne, 46
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Gratz (case), 82, 171
Greene, Harold, 69
Greenhouse, Linda, 123, 126
Griffin, Chad, 188, 190, 198, 203, 205
Griswold (case), 22
Grutter and Gratz (cases), 82
Grutter v. Bollinger (case), 81-82, 171
Hale, David, 92-94
Hamdan (case), 170
Hamdi (case), 170
Harris, Katherine, 120-21, 124
Hartnett, Edward, 249
Hatch, Orrin, 143-44
Hell to Pay by Barbara Olson, 96-97, 104
Hill, Anita, 86, 88
His Cheatin’ Heart by David Brock, 91
Hollingsworth v. Perry (case), 232
Hopwood (case), 81
Hopwood, Cheryl, 81
Houser, Dick, 52
IC. See Independent Counsel
In re Marriage (case), 187
In Re Sealed Case, 79
Independent Counsel, 51-54, 56-57, 61-62, 65-67, 72-73, 75-76, 92, 98, 102, 143-44
Independent Counsel Act, 61, 64
Independent Women’s Forum, 87, 89
Jackson, Robert, 62, 75
Jeffords, Jim, 145
Jenner & Block (law firm), 55, 59-60
Jones, Paula, 100
Kagan, Elena, 235
Katami, Paul, 227
Kelly, Timothy, 256
Kennedy, Anthony, 57, 130, 133, 135, 137
Kennedy, Arthur, 15-6, 58, 130, 175, 205-06, 217, 224
Kennedy, Bobby, 41
Kennedy, John (Jack), 41
assassination, 15
Kentucky (case), 173
King, Larry, 107-08, 163, 166
King, Martin Luther
arrest in Selma, 22
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assassination, 31
Koh, Harold, 53
Lavelle, Rita, 46
Lawrence v. Texas (case), 206
LBJ. See Johnson, Lyndon Baines
Lear, Norman, 192
Ledeen, Barbara, 88, 92, 163
Lee, Wen Ho, 183, 186
Levy, Chandra, 108
Lewinsky, Monica, 99-100, 102-03
Libby, Scooter, 186
Londo, Florence
maternal grandmother, 2
Lopez (case), 247
Los Angeles Magazine, 92
Los Angeles Times (newspaper), 92, 187
Loving v. Virginia (case), 206
Luttig, J. Michael, 96, 245
MacKinnon, George, 66
Manning, John, 111
marriage equality, 199
Marshall, Thurgood, 236
Martin, Tom, 55
Mayer, Jane, 239, 257
McCain-Feingold Act, 168
McConnell v. FEC (case), 168
McConnell, Bob, 40, 52, 162-64
McConnell, Mitch, 52, 168-69
McGill, Matt, 227
McKay, Jim, 68
Meese, Ed, 57
Meet the Press (television news show), 132, 163
Middlebrooks, Donald, 113, 118- 21
Miller, Judith, 185
Miller, Zell, 146
Mitchell, Andrea, 255
Mitchell, George, 41
Molene, Kate Bales, 188
Morrison v. Olson (case), 61, 83
Morrison, Alexia, 54, 57, 59-60, 65, 68
Independent Counsel, 52
Mueller investigation, 255
Murphy v. NCAA (case), 244-46, 253
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National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Governor of New Jersey (case), 246
Neal, Jim, 59-60
Nelso, Ben, 146
New York Times (newspaper), 75, 105-06, 144, 147, 185-86, 219, 240, 258
New York Times v. Sullivan (case) (the Pentagon Papers), 240
New York v. United States (case), 247
New Yorker (magazine), 238
Newsom, Gavin, 187, 220
Nickles, Don, 87, 108
Nixon Memorandum, 47
Nixon, Richard, 41
Notre Dame Law Review, 249
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 90, 130, 134, 139, 173
Obama, Barack, 195, 228, 239
Obergefell (case), 208
Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War Over Anonymous Sources by Norman Pearlstine, 186
Office of Government Ethics, 39
OLC. See Office of Legal Counsel
Olson, Barbara (wife), 86-89, 92, 95-97, 104-10, 116, 122, 135, 137, 155-57, 160, 162-66, 179-81
Bill Maher television show, 153
CNN, 153
Deputy General Counsel House of Representatives, 87
Independent Women’s Forum, 87
Larry King, 153
plane hijacked, 158
U.S. Attorney’s Office, 87
WilmerHale, 87
Olson, Christine (daughter), 23
Olson, Elida
paternal great grrandmother, 1
Olson, John, 36
Karen (wife), 22
Olson, Karen Beatie (wife), 18, 22
Olson, Kenneth (son), 23
Olson, Lady (wife), 5, 179-83, 191-92, 197, 224, 227-28
Olson, Lester (father)
LaGuardia a protected category so he was not drafted during World War II, 2
Midway Airport radio technician, 2
Milwaukee School of Engineering, 1
United Airlines, 2, 4
engineer, 1
Senior Vice President of Line Service Engineering, 2
Olson, Theodore – Personal
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birth Chicago, 3
Boalt Law School (now Berkley Law), 12 -5, 18, 29, 174
law school Law Review, Order of the Coif, 14
California Lawyers for Ronald Reagan, 32
College Federation Young Republicans, 14
color blind, 7
Cravath Swaine & Moore summer, 17
libertarian, 195-96
Los Altos High School, 4
track team, 6
Menlo Atherton High School, 6
Palo Verdes Estates, 40
proudest achievements, 228
Reagan Foundation Board, 26
Redeeming the Dream by Theodore Olson, 5
University of the Pacific (previously College of the Pacific), 7
college debate team, 7
college fraternity Arcania, Alpha Kappa Phi, affiliated, 11
college newspaper, 7
editor, 13
Honors awards college graduation, 12
Wisconsin, 1, 3, 105, 108, 147, 152, 166, 181, 246
Olson, Theodore – Professional
Aetna (case), 65
American Spectator (newspaper and website), 76
Arkansas Project Board, 91
Aspen Institute speeches, 241
California Commission on Uniform State Laws, 27
Cravath Swaine & Moore, 18
Deflategate, 242
drafting blind trust for President and Mrs. Reagan, 38
gay marriage cases, 185, 187
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, 18-20, 31, 115
Office of Legal Counsel, 36, 41-45, 47, 53-54, 56, 58, 63, 143, 150
Acting Attorney General, 36 Rasul v. Bush (case), 170-71
Reagan Foundation Board, 76
role in the presidential election recount and Supreme Court litigation, 144
Solicitor General
Guantanomo habeas corpus issues, 170
nomination, 142, 210
preparing for oral argument, 149, 154
recused self from certain 9/11 cases, 171
sports betting case, 229
Telecommunications Act of 1996, 167
Olson, Walter
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paternal grandfather, 1
Olson, Yvonne Bevry (mother)
Marquette University, 1
master’s degree in English Literature and a teaching credential, 5
Paine, Thomas, 236
Parsky, Gerry, 36
Patchak (case), 230-31
Pearlstine, Norman, 186
Perry, Kris, 227
Plame, Valerie, 186
Plaut v. Spendthrift Farms (case), 230
Pledge of Allegiance (case) See Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow
Poindexter (case), 69-70
preemption, 247-49
Printz (case), 247
Proposition 8 (California), 187-89, 193-94, 202, 204, 208, 212, 221, 224
Rasul v. Bush (case), 170-71
RBG. See Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
Reagan Administration, 57, 150
Reagan Kitchen Cabinet, 25, 27
Reagan Memorandum, 48
Reagan, Nancy, 73
diaries, 76
Reagan, Ronald, 21, 25-26, 28-29, 32-33, 37, 40-41, 62, 69-70
Redhorse, John, 9
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 173
Regnery Company, 104, 106
Regnery, Al, 104
Rehnquist, William, 57-58, 90, 210
Reiner, Rob and Michelle, 188-90, 192, 198, 205
reporter’s privilege, 183, 185
Roberts, John, 125, 223, 229, 245, 255
Robertson, Pat, 80
Robinson, Aubrey, 78
Roe v. Wade (case), 21, 196
Romer v. Evans (case), 206-07 217
Romero, Anthony, 223
Roseborough, Teresa, 127
Rove, Karl, 139
Rumsfeld v. Padilla (case), 170
Scaife, Richard Mellon, 91
Scalia, Antonin, 43, 57, 58, 61, 83, 85, 130, 134, 175, 193, 245
Seattle (case), 173
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separation of powers, 49, 58, 63
Silberman, Laurence, 56-57, 61, 79, 88, 95, 182, 245
Silberman, Ricky, 87
Simms, Larry, 43, 66
Smith, William French (Bill), 23, 33, 35-38, 40
Chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of California, 27
Sotomayor, Sonia, 235
Souter, David, 134, 136-37
sports betting See National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Governor of New Jersey
Starr, Alice, 98, 136-37
Starr, Ken, 36-38, 40, 62, 92, 97, 102-03, 109, 136-37, 203, 245
Stein, Jake, 102
Stevens, John, 127, 130, 136-38, 238, 241
Stewart, Potter, 174
Stewart, Scott, 236
Stier, Sandy, 227
Strauss (case), 187, 203, 207
Sunstein, Cass, 53
Superfund Act, 46
Suter, Bill, 85
Tam, Bill, 216-17
Telecommunications Act of 1996, 167
The Spectator (British newsmagazine), 91
Texas v. United States (case), 205, 250
Thomas, Clarence, 85- 88, 148, 162
Thomas, Ginni, 162
Time Magazine, 185
Tribe, Larry, 119, 126-27, 131-32
Trott, Steve, 55, 59
Trump, Donald, 255-56
Twenty-fifth Amendment, 140
Tyrrell, Bob, 91
U. S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 54, 56-58, 61, 88-89, 171, 185, 245
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 114, 118-20, 122-23, 127-28, 229
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 81
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 245
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 243
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 209
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 226-27, 245-46, 250
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 56, 58, 212, 215, 222, 227
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 48
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, 210
U. S. Supreme Court, 22, 36, 52, 57-58, 65-66, 81-82, 148-49, 152, 171-74, 178, 185-86, 189-90, 194-96, 208, 212, 215-16, 218, 220-33, 238-40, 243, 245, 247-54, 257
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Florida election, 109-44
Hayes/Tilden election, 141
Jones, Paula, 101-02
marriage equality, 199-227
McCain-Feingold Act constitutionality 168
Underwood, Barbara, 148
Uniform Commercial Code, 27, 28
Uniform Probate Code, 27, 28
United States v. Carolene Products Company (case), 206, 213
United States v. Virginia (case), 82-83, 85
Victor, Roy, 20
Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership, 83
VMI See United States v. Virginia
Voss, Helen, 155
Voting Rights Act, 57
VWIL. See Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership
Wald, Patricia, 61
Walker, Helgi, 111
Walker, Vaughn, 208-09, 213, 215, 222
Wall Street Journal (newspaper), 86, 106, 199
Walsh, Lawrence, 62, 69-71, 73, 75, 98
Walters, Barbara, 102, 166
Warin, Joe, 224
Washington Post (newspaper), 73, 144, 183
Washington Times (newspaper), 106
Watergate, 41, 45
Westmoreland, William, 218
Wheatley, Horace, 10
Whitewater, 93
Wiesel, Elie, 80
Williams, Stephen, 56, 79
Winters, Paul, 8, 11
World Trade Center (9/11), 155
Zarrillo, Jeff, 227