Twenty years ago, I read the first edition of Chief Justice Rehnquist’s book on the Supreme Court. It’s a history of the Court for the lay-person, interspersed with Rahnquist’s recollections of coming to the Court in the 50s to clerk for Justice Jackson.
I recently re-read it, this time the more recent second edition.
I could have sworn that in the first edition, he mentions shame-facedly that when he was clerking, he complained to his landlord about a parking ticket he got, and his landlord “took care of it” with someone on the DC police, in exchange for a bottle. But this little anecdote is missing from the second edition.
Am I misremembering, or did Rehnquist delete the story in the more recent edition of his book?