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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A life well lived and happiness well deserved.
Best of luck to Ted, but a Napa wedding? Ugh! How trendy!
I think his name is Danforth.
Oh, yeah, Jack Danforth...the minister.
Maybe he officiated.
LOL! I giving Lady the credit for Ted looking so good!
Oh, heck! It isn't Danforth either.
It's Boyden Gray! Hat tip to the poster above.
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.
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.
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.
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Ted deserves some happiness after what he's been through. I hope that he's found it.
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.
That coupled with the 20 hr work days day after day required to prepare for a trial.
Suction into the zone of evil created by Rove's alter ego, Rumsfeld.
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?
bump
*ha ha*
She is forty- something and this is her first marriage?? Hmmmm......
It is far worse to let her win and then later she finds out you where right!!
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