Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor spilled big time to NBC's Katie Couric on Friday night's "Dateline," revealing her Stanford Law School flirtation with Chief Justice William Rehnquist and her culinary experiences with, er, bull testicles.
Touting her new memoir, "Lazy B," O'Connor acknowledges with a girlish laugh that she and Rehnquist dated: "We went to a few movies, and one thing or another."
She also tells a hair-raising story about her future husband, city boy John O'Connor, visiting her family's Arizona ranch: "My father and the cowboys were down in the corral. They were branding calves and castrating the bull calves. And tossing the testicles in the bucket on the side. And my father went over and got some baling wire off the fence. Made kind of a long skewer out of it, took a couple of these things out of the bucket, trimmed them a little with his pocket knife, stuck 'em on this baling skewer and put them in the branding fire, where they sizzled away. And eventually he held it out: 'Here, John. Try these.' " The justice adds that she also indulged: "We used to have them for the cocktail hour. My mother knew how to pick them pretty well."
House Government Reform Committee Chairman Dan Burton used to worship the man whose name graces the FBI's headquarters. "I always thought J. Edgar Hoover walked on water when I was a kid," the Indiana Republican tells Mike Wallace on Sunday's "60 Minutes." But now Burton is investigating Hoover's role in putting an innocent Boston man, Joseph Salvati, in prison for 32 years on a bogus murder conviction, all to protect a Mafia informant who actually committed the crime. Hoover "knew it, and his name should not be emblazoned on the FBI's headquarters," Burton says. "We ought to change the name of that building. I'm serious."
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