The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.

Perot eventually selected Pat Choate. The Warren B. Sununu was a key player in the appointment of Rudman's personal friend Supreme Court Justice David Souter to both the federal circuit and the Supreme Court.

After two terms in office Rudman chose not to run for re-election in 1992. Warren Bruce Rudman (May 18 1930 – November 19 2012) was an American attorney and Republican politician who served as United States Senator from New Hampshire between 1980 and 1993. At the time of his death he was a co-chair of Albright Stonebridge Group; a retired partner in the international law firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison; and an advisory board member of Promontory Financial Group.