OPINION: How the Nixon Mail is Running

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Senator Alan Cranston, a Democrat from California, reports nearly a 10-to-l ratio against the President in 35,000 letters, including one from a youth counselor in Whittier, Nixon's home town. "I find it a bit awkward to convince a wayward youth to be honest or just while our President sets such a startling example to the contrary," he wrote. A pro-Nixon letter from Newport Beach countered: "From the Viet Nam War through Watergate and calling Brezhnev's bluff, Mr. Nixon's full name should be President Guts Nixon."