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ots an Average of 13,000 Letters, Weekly from Over Nation

: PAUL x. LEACH, Times Special Correspondent Wa ] Be an aa Cureton ctident ‘every week—but suppose Joe Doaks should wander in off Ave, Wanting to tell the Great White Father how

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atte or his wife write around averages a dozen, are political letters a week to the Presi. | bosses, churchmen, heads of na{tional organizations, gOVernors, mayors, labor leaders, personal ’ friends, distinguished foreigners, a big leditors, bankers, doctors, lawyers, : as we well as government department

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at White House |

” least think they do. The cabinet meets with the President every Friday. And the White House staff has to snuggle

{you're still eating breakfast. ’ Time Was when strangers could,

Every Thursday upward of 200'tne facts of life-the President! reporters crowd into the Presi-iwag busy, If the visitor turned dent's office for questions and an- gut to be a’ put, the agents would swers. shunt him casually away and Crowd Into Office {send him to a hospital, . No holds, beyond good taste,; Now the visitor, regardless of fre barred on questions or ob- who he is, must identify himself servations by the reporters. They at the outer gate and show cause. represent Joe and his wife. {why he should go further. There During a session of Congress, has not been a military guard not a day passes that does not!since the war, but the blue unihas half a dozen Representatives formed White House police are or Senators on the President's/the essence of diplomacy—and ealling list. They go to talk about firmness. everything under the sun. They,| What comes of all those letters, | too, represent Joe, . many of which el Ame ean candor tell the President what «ON that daily calling ist, Which, pe writers think of. him and his, ideas? | Obviously the President Is not| going to read them all, nor can he | reply to them, He would not have | {time for anything else if he did. | But according to Mr. Ross, letters {that really say something—pro/, or con—are weeded out and go to [the President's desk.

‘ Pays Dividends | When the letters and telegrams

{are voicing Joe's approval or disapproval of a national issue, staff aids count the fors and againsts dude give Mr. Truman a dally] tally, } Newspaper editorial writers, who think their advice to the § President never meets his eye, would be surprised how many ol them he does read. Mr. Truman goes over about al ‘vents loss . . + reduces dozen papers a day mostly enst-| ern. That leaves a whale of a lot of the United States unaccounted for, but newspaper editors and newspaper readers clear across tie Jap, Aen send him clippings by

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