'A pit bull in size 6 shoes' Gee, Dubya, you sure know how to flatter a girl. That's the Bush quote CNN headlined for an AP story about Harriet Miers, Bush's Supreme Court nominee. It's an old quote, but great headline copy. (Hey, it grabbed my attention. I thought Dick Morris was the only politico who paid attention to women's shoe sizes.)
In 2004, Bush appointed her White House counsel, calling her "a talented lawyer whose great integrity, legal scholarship and grace have long marked her as one of America's finest lawyers." He articulated his high regard for her more memorably during a 1996 awards ceremony when he called her "a pit bull in size 6 shoes."