evidence: Harry Truman is reputed to have said, "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog!" I spent four years as counsel to Missouri Governor, Christopher S. "Kit" Bond, four more years advising him daily on his quest for re-election after his narrow defeat in 1976, an additional four years as a police commissioner in St. Louis City, an appointment by Bond in 1981, and finally, served as a political consultant to Bond during his election campaign for the United States Senate in 1986, the first of four terms in Washington. I chose not go to Washington, but I did marry a dog, or, rather I married a woman with a dog in 1986. Her name (the dog’s) was Katy and she was a beautiful, one-year-old Golden Retriever with an assertive, alpha personality.