On the recordMay 17, 1994
I must add a very few reflections of my own. My first experience with Mr. Natcher was as Administrative Assistant to my predecessor, John Blatnik, who was a very close friend of Bill Natcher and preceded Chairman Natcher in Congress by several years. John was elected in 1946. But he, too, recounted the story of the Three Sisters Bridge and how Bill Natcher had nothing, no personal interest or reflection or commentary upon the District of Columbia. But there was a law that said that the Three Sisters Bridge had to be built. And he was not going to allow a penny to be spent on the subway until the prior commitment had been met, which was the law. And John Blatnik said, 'You watch. Bill Natcher will not yield an inch.' It was not until the caissons were pounded into the embankment on the Virginia side of the Potomac River and the work begun on building the southern extremity of Three Sisters Bridge that Chairman Natcher finally relented...
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