Culvahouse vetted an estimated 200 nominees for various positions, including Robert Bork and Anthony Kennedy for the Supreme Court and Alan Greenspan for Federal Reserve chairman.
He also advised the president on a range of matters, including the Iran-Contra investigations.
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The story brings in the various light scandals that have surrounded the process of selecting VP candidates, which seems unduly to require an echo of past story of Jim Johnson from the Obama committee. Culvahouse is called "low profile" instead of "darkly secretive." The article goes to pains to minimize Culvahouse's past duty as a lobbyist. The history of Culvahouse having vetted Bork, Anthony Kennedy, and Greenspan suggests we should brace ourselves for a real doozy of a VP candidate; will Tancredo resurface? Oliver North?
