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6425 Cedar Drive
Falls Church
Virginia

November 30, 1953

Mr. Robert A. Fulwiler, Jr.
Hercules Powder Company
Delaware Trust Bldg.
Wilmington, 99, Delaware

Dear Bob:

Here is the brief. From sheer poundage, if nothing else, it is an outstanding production; but it also represents an almost unbelievable amount of work. We had to research the Federal materials through more than a dozen sessions of Congress, and State materials from here to hell and gone.

The result is rather mild, but I hope it fills the purpose. As a result of our arduous labors, two of us are to be retained for the regular staff of the Office of Legal Counsel. An honor, no doubt, and one which will feed me, but, actually, I'm not at all happy with it. I have my mind made up to get out, and, while nothing has yet shown up, I hate to unmake it. Of course, having signed this brief, my chances of practicing below the Mason-Dixon line are not notably enhanced.

Your boy Stanley did right well; had the rest of the State been as bright as the 10th District, he would have had a shoo-in. It bears out what I've always said, that a Democrat anywhere else is really in Virginia a Republican.

We were just served with the John W. Davis brief for South Carolina, so it's back to the salt mines.

Anyway, let me know if you hear of any employment possibilities outside this town.

Sincerely

William J. Lamont