If John McCain wins the nomination, there is talk that Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr. could be chosen as John McCain's attorney general. A longtime Washington figure who served in the Reagan administraition and is currently the chair of O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Culvahouse helped guide the McCain campaign's Vice Presidential vetting process. The ABA Journal recently profiled Culvahouse as a candidate for attorney general:
Culvahouse moves behind the scenes on the inside of insiders' Washington. He was President Reagan's White House counsel from 1987 to 1989 and advised the president during the Iran-Contra investigation. He was Robert Bork's handler in his unsuccessful bid for confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court. He headed the search for McCain's running mate, and he was agile enough to handle last-minute vetting of Sarah Palin and win a hotly contested third four-year term as chair of O'Melveny & Myers. Though he cut his political teeth as legislative assistant to Republican icon Howard Baker, the McCain campaign marks Culvahouse's first foray into a presidential campaign. Democrats in Washington respect him and he has private access to a lot of ears on Capitol Hill.
Read more about Arthur Culvahouse Jr.'s role in helping to vet McCain's possible VP picks, including, of course, Sarah Palin, via the Washington Post.