[Ken H]

How did GHW Bush come to nominate Souter?

By that I mean, who brought him to the President's attention and argued for his nomination?

[Cyber Liberty]

Sununu. New Hampshire boy.

[Theodore R.]

It is often said that Senator Warren Rudman pushed for Souter and that then Chief of Staff John Sununu, a former NH governor, went along for the sake of peace in the NH Republican Party. Sununu was an unsuccessful Republican senatorial nominee in NH in 1980 -- he lost the nomination to Rudman. Now his son, John E. Sununu, is the NH junior senator and the youngest of all senators.