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The Presidency/ Hugh Sidey
Edwin Sidey, Editor
The Adair County Free Press
Greenfield, Iowa
My dear brother,
I have not heard from you in a while, and I'm concerned. I listen to Senator Alan Cranston's gloomy speeches and read the doomsayers in the Washington Post, and it makes me fear the bank has foreclosed on the old print shop or you are so weak from hunger that you can't write.
This may be a bad time to add to your burden, but we have always been candid with each other. The capital is beginning to panic. There is good economic news, and there seems to be nothing...
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