Sandra Day O'Connor and William Rehnquist were law school sweethearts

Sandra Day O'Connor may have been Sandra Day Rehnquist, had a certain former chief justice had his way a few decades ago. O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, and William Rehnquist, who was the court's chief justice until his death in 2005, were more than just classmates at Stanford University back in 1949. They dated for a few months, and Rehnquist even proposed to O'Connor, an O'Connor biographer told NPR on Wednesday. O'Connor and Rehnquist both began at Stanford in 1949, though th...