Who Was Bryce Harlow?
Bryce Harlow dedicated his life to public service and private enterprise. During his five decades working in the nation’s capital, he served as counselor to presidents, speechwriter, congressional liaison and corporate representative — and he served each post with unquestioned ability and integrity. Harlow’s first days in Washington were under the most inauspicious conditions. In September of 1938, he arrived at the Capitol building as an Oklahoma University graduate student completing research on his master’s thesis about the Congressional Ways and Means Committee. He worked as an assistant for the library staff at the House of Representatives, but intended to leave Washington as soon as his research was finished. Instead, Harlow inadvertently began a career that would place him within the highest reaches of government and business. And he would accomplish this despite few initial ties to the Washington establishment — hard work and honesty drove his success. After the completion of h
