C. Boyden Gray: The Passing of An Uncommon American Conservative - The American Conservative

C. Boyden Gray served as Counsel to the Vice President during Ronald Reagan’s terms.

He was also close to former President George H.W. Bush, a Texas transplant who began life in the Northeast as the son of Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush.

He served two stints overseas as an ambassador, first to the European Union and then as George W. Bush's Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy.

It seems to me that especially in his battle against crony capitalism, Boyden showed himself to be less of an establishment Republican, whatever that might mean at any given time.

Boyden understood that forever wars were a potent stimulus to the centralization and expansion of government power.

He was a charter member of 41’s tennis cabinet’.