The Press: Alicia's Pen Pal

"In your great inaugural speech." editorialized suburban Long Island's Newsday (circ. 328,801) in an "open letter" to President John F. Kennedy, "you said to us: 'Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.' But still we do not know what it is that must be done, and how you as an elected leader want us to do it." Dozens of editorial pages across the U.S. have been making the same complaint to President John Kennedy, but perhaps none of the others thought of wiring the President...

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