Letters: Nov. 22, 1968

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Sir: Hooray for Richard Nixon! He has survived presidential defeat in 1960, his personal nadir in the 1962 California Governor's race, the 1964 Republican fiasco, and even L.B.J., to reunite the Republican Party and become President. Political shades of Horatio Alger!

S. BOWEN MATTHEWS Manlius, N.Y.

Sir: Richard M. Nixon's moving quotation of the Ohio teen-ager's sign stating "Bring us together again" is a most fitting theme for the launching of a new administration. I can think of no more appropriate way to begin this than by Nixon's utilizing the magnificent talents of Hubert H. Humphrey in some capacity after the inauguration.

PHILIP BESONEN Edwardsville, Ill.

Sir: The most disturbing aspect of the election is that 43% of the voters slaphappily approved of the Democratic leadership of the past eight years, under which: Cuba has become a Communist arsenal (Bay of Pigs); the U.S. is deep in a 500,000-man shooting war 8,000 miles from home; attorney generals have not stuck to their basic jobs; the Supreme Court has become a manufacturer instead of an interpreter of the law; crime has tripled; strikes and riots are the rule, not the exception; the city of Washington is a thug-infested jungle; and a letter costs twice as much to post and takes twice as long to arrive.

This is the Herculean stable-cleaning job with which Nixon will be faced on Jan. 21. He can only hope that the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate will put country before party and back his programs instead of playing party politics as usual. Otherwise, heaven help us.

JAMES VAN ALEN Newport, R.I.

Sir: It is hard to believe that Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew will now begin a four-year term in Washington because of the timing of three men. Mayor Richard J. Daley gave up on Hubert Humphrey a little too early, President Johnson sat on his hands a little too long, and Senator Eugene McCarthy did not realize there were other people in this country until it was a little too late—how sad.

(MRS.) NANCY HARRIS Chicago

Sir: Biblical researchers will miss the boat if they do not interrogate Senator Gene McCarthy as to his post-election feelings. I am sure they will discover just how Judas Iscariot felt after the Crucifixion.

VINCENT A. SHEA Minneapolis

Sir: Nixon's won, America is done!

(MRS.) KAY B. POPLIN Lubbock, Texas

Sir: On a hard, realistic, profit-minded basis, any advertising agency that had at its disposal the millions of dollars the Republicans spent, the scads of top echelon organizational brains, and four years of "scientific" advance planning, yet could only bring forth a neck-and-neck race, would be headed for extinction.

SAMUEL WHITMAN Long Beach, Calif.

Sir: Memo to George C. Wallace: Blue collars don't always cause rednecks.

JOSEPH E. KING

Urbana, Ill.

Sir: I am one of the 98% of this world to whom it matters who is elected President of the U.S. I have no sympathy for Humphrey and his party machine. Perhaps they now realize that the tactics used at the Chicago convention led to their doom. We will now suffer quietly.

S. HAMID London