Letters: Jun. 29, 1970

The President's Ear

Sir: Bravissimo to Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman, who asks the Nixon Administration: "Do we have to do this at all?" and "Why can't the states do this?" [June 8]. For 25 years we have seen the Federal Government assume functions it was never created to perform. At last there's a man close to a President's ear who is posing the absolutely essential query in a Government that's supposed to be limited.

WOOLSEY TELLER Indianapolis

Sir: During the 1968 campaign it was said by Republicans that R.M.N. had somehow, during his eight long...