From The Desktop of Carl Fisher

  You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout I'm telling you why Wayne Morse is coming to town At least that’s what I like to think they sang in the winter of 1944 when Oregon’s Senator-elect made his cross country road trip to Washington D.C. He arrived in DC just in time for Christmas. You might be asking why Morse made the long trek by car instead of by train as would have been customary for someone entering the Senate. It was pretty simple. No matter how educated Morse had become at institutions of higher learning he never stopped being a farmer and animal lover.