The Washingtonian reports that the reason Bush didn't nominate Ted Olson for the Supreme Court was his age: at 65, he's considered too old. Olson also is engaged to be married.

Some four years after his wife, author Barbara Olson, was killed on the hijacked American Airlines flight that crashed into the Pentagon, former solicitor general Ted Olson is engaged. He will be married this fall to Lady Evelyn Booth, who has been his social companion since they met at the Kentucky Derby in 2002. A native of Louisville, Lady Booth was named for an aunt.

Olson left the solicitor general’s office last year and was considered a candidate to succeed William Rehnquist as chief justice before the job went to John Roberts.

Judge vetters saw Olson, 65, as too old, although many in his Norwegian family have lived into their nineties. His mother is going strong at 85. Olson still sports a thick shock of sandy Viking hair and zips around Great Falls in a silver Mercedes SL 600.