Lexington Herald-Leader | 07/21/2005 | Bush trusts intuition in making his selection
When President Bush sat down in the White House residence last Thursday to interview a potential Supreme Court nominee, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, he asked him about the hardest decision he had ever made — and also how much he exercised.
“Well, I told him I ran 31/2 miles a day,” Wilkinson recalled yesterday. “And I said my doctor recommends a lot of cross-training, but I said I didn’t want to do the elliptical and the bike and the treadmill.” The president, Wilkinson said, “took umbrage at that,” and told his potential nominee that he should do the cross-training his doctor suggested.