Bill Bradley came to Seattle as a work destination, facing the Sonics as a New York Knicks forward, and later as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He happened to look across the water at a sight that continues to transfix even the most jaded among us locals.
“I had my personal exposure,” Bradley joked in an interview. “You look out during a Seattle sunset. You see mountains, and ask, ‘What is that?’ It’s the Olympics. What a backyard.”
Bradley was later to hike in the Olympic rainforest — “It is a special place in this country” — and to play a key role in enhancing that place. He midwifed legislation authorizing removal of two aged, salmon-destroying dams from the Elwha River, the greatest stream system on the Olympic Peninsula.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/connelly/article/A-Jersey-guy-s-love-for-the-Olympics-2159791.php
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