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In the late 1950s, at the start of my career at the US Library of Congress, a man I did not know asked to join me one day as I ate lunch in the cafeteria. Such occurrences were not uncommon on Capitol Hill, where thousands of advisers, officials, staff, journalists and Congress members convened on any given day. Yet the man I shared my table with that day held a far more important position than most of my usual lunchtime companions: he was Supreme Court Justice William Douglas. While there are 100 Senators and 435 members of the House of...
