The late Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist carried a torch for fellow Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor when the two were in college, even proposing to her in secret.
According to a Wednesday NPR report, though O’Connor turned him down, the two remained friends and Rehnquist is even believed to have floated her name to President Ronald Reagan when a vacancy opened up on the Supreme Court.
“It was just an amazing accident of history that my mom and her friend and law school classmate ended up on the Supreme Court together,” O’Connor’s son Jay told NPR. “Not only did they have a wonderful working relationship for over 25 years on the court they had a wonderful friendship their entire life.”
