The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 4th, 2005
On Jan. 30, 1952, a 27-year-old law school graduate named William Hubbs Rehnquist left his parents' home in Shorewood in a 1941 Studebaker Champion, heading for Washington, D.C.
He drove through a snowstorm in West Virginia and Maryland along the way, writing later, "It's hard to believe that even in 1941 a heater would have been optional equipment on a car sold in Milwaukee, Wisconsin."
Two days after he left, he found himself standing in awe in front of the majestic building that houses the United States Supreme Court.
"I had only foggiest notion of how the Supreme Court operated," he wro...
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