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Napa Nuptials for [Ted] Olson and His Lady
The Washington Post ^ | October 22, 2006 | by Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts

Posted on 10/22/2006 3:19:49 AM PDT by aculeus

Top Washington lawyer Ted Olson and his fiancee, Lady Booth, tied the knot yesterday in Napa Valley, Calif., starting a happy new chapter in Olson's personal life. "She's a Southern girl," he told us. "She's just a marvelous person."

Olson shot to national fame when he successfully argued the 2000 election case for George W. Bush in the Supreme Court, and was named solicitor general by the grateful president. On Sept. 11, 2001 -- his 61st birthday -- his wife, conservative commentator Barbara Olson, was killed when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. His personal loss became part of the public narrative of the tragedy, making him perhaps the most famous widower in Washington.

The following year, Olson was introduced to the Louisville native (she's named "Lady" after an aunt) by mutual friends who thought he would hit it off with the 40-something blond tax lawyer. Their first few dates included the Kentucky Derby (both like horse racing) and the Napa Valley charity auction (both like fine wine). Olson popped the question on Oct. 21, 2005, and the couple set the date for exactly one year later at Napa's Meadowood resort.

More than 300 guests attended the midafternoon ceremony on the golf course, including Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, former justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, legal commentators Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova, NPR's Nina Totenberg, legal names such as Robert Bork, Kenneth Starr, David Boise, and Olson's law partner Bill Kilberg. U.S. Appeals Court Judge Laurence Silberman performed the ceremony, and Wall Street Journal

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To: horton
Ted seems more level headed than Sir Paul, after all he actually let Linda sing in public.
41 posted on 10/22/2006 7:08:07 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
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To: aculeus

A life well lived and happiness well deserved.


42 posted on 10/22/2006 7:10:23 AM PDT by the anti-mahdi
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To: aculeus

Best of luck to Ted, but a Napa wedding? Ugh! How trendy!


43 posted on 10/22/2006 7:13:51 AM PDT by GVnana (Former Alias: GVgirl)
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To: Timeout
That's not Ted.

I think his name is Danforth.

44 posted on 10/22/2006 7:16:56 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: Churchillspirit

Oh, yeah, Jack Danforth...the minister.
Maybe he officiated.

LOL! I giving Lady the credit for Ted looking so good!


45 posted on 10/22/2006 7:18:21 AM PDT by Timeout (I hate MediaCrats! ......and trial lawyers.)
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To: Churchillspirit

Oh, heck! It isn't Danforth either.

It's Boyden Gray! Hat tip to the poster above.


46 posted on 10/22/2006 7:19:17 AM PDT by Timeout (I hate MediaCrats! ......and trial lawyers.)
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To: aculeus

Every time I think about Barbara Olson I feel this awful pit in my stomach. She is a loss that will always be present, so I sincerely wish Mr. Olson all the best that life can bring him.


47 posted on 10/22/2006 7:24:00 AM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL ( **Hunter-Tancredo-Weldon-Hayworth 4 President** I get it, Glenn.)
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To: aculeus
I wish Ted Olsen and his new bride a long and happy life but I am dismayed at the idea of naming someone Lady.

I fear their life together will sound like one long Jerry Lewis movie. Hey La-dy!
48 posted on 10/22/2006 7:24:13 AM PDT by redheadtoo
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To: aculeus

She looks amazingly like Barbara. And amazingly young.

It's said that men remarry quickly after being widowed if their prior marriage was a happy one. That seems to be the case here. I do wish them all joy, peace, and prosperity.


49 posted on 10/22/2006 7:25:37 AM PDT by Fairview
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To: SkyPilot
Absolutely. Let us all be charitable, and Christian in this FR thread today, and wish the man and his wife the best.

He has had quite a tragedy in his life. Glad he can move on and try to live the rest of it with some happiness the man deserves and which we would all want were we to remarry after our own beloved spouse had been murdered five years earlier by terrorists.

50 posted on 10/22/2006 7:28:19 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (..is an American allright, but is not in Japan, folks. Thanks for letting me keep the moniker.)
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To: Timeout
Look again....:)

sw

51 posted on 10/22/2006 7:29:24 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: aculeus

Ted deserves some happiness after what he's been through. I hope that he's found it.


52 posted on 10/22/2006 7:38:08 AM PDT by RedWhiteBlue
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To: Sheier Was Right

28 and , still married to each other.

Congrats to the two of you and, I hold the same belief.
We are becoming a rare breed in America today. I read just recently the divorce rate in America, hard to believe people are becoming so lax with their commitment to one another.

I believe every woman is entitled to every right she is entitled to but, women's liberation and, lets burn our bra crowd has helped destroy the sacred marriage vows.


53 posted on 10/22/2006 7:40:27 AM PDT by buck61
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To: sportutegrl

That coupled with the 20 hr work days day after day required to prepare for a trial.


54 posted on 10/22/2006 7:41:00 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: L.N. Smithee
how did this tragic plane crash into the Pentagon happen?

Suction into the zone of evil created by Rove's alter ego, Rumsfeld.

55 posted on 10/22/2006 7:43:24 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: MarkL
IMHO, they were not murdered, but killed. Just as soldiers who die in battle aren't murdered. Plain and simple, our country was attacked by a pseudo-government using a covert military force.

Well, you are wrong on about every count one can be wrong. There is no just theory of war under which you hijack a civlian airliner and deliberately murder all the civlians on board to achieve a military objective. Second, if you will recall, after we used the military to establish civil jurisdiction in Germany and Japan, we then brought the murderous bastards in the SS and some of the same kinds of senior Japanese military and civilian folks to the bar of justice.

This was not unavoidable collateral damage. It is was directly and simply murder.

What kind of an inhuman soul are you not to see the difference?

56 posted on 10/22/2006 7:52:54 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: aculeus
Well, wonderful for him and her.
57 posted on 10/22/2006 8:08:38 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Be a persevere Republican not a cut-n-run one.)
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To: goresalooza

bump



*ha ha*


58 posted on 10/22/2006 8:41:42 AM PDT by justche (If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: All

She is forty- something and this is her first marriage?? Hmmmm......


59 posted on 10/22/2006 8:44:13 AM PDT by ClarenceThomasfan (It's like a plantation - and you know what I mean!)
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To: goresalooza

It is far worse to let her win and then later she finds out you where right!!


60 posted on 10/22/2006 9:04:52 AM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Is there any right devoid of responsibility?)
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