The Campaign Sir: Congratulations on your colorful, informative and objective coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions. Americans who fear our nation's dying prestige and are shocked at our complacent government can put their trust and confidence in John Kennedy. His primary and convention victories give testimony to his brilliance in organization. By reading his speeches one can see that he has a firm grasp of both international and domestic affairs.
JOHN D. IBSON Santa Ana, Calif.
Sir:
I have spent much of my life abroad, and I am convinced that the anti-Communist peoples of Asia and Europe will pray for the Nixon-Lodge-team's victory, as being by far the more vigorous and experienced of the two contestants, and the one more likely to succeed in giving a hemorrhage to Moscow and Peking.
These qualifications must unquestionably be the ones to guide any intelligent American voter in November.
A. GREGG Hong Kong
Sir: I could not help but notice how calm, collected and easy Mr. Nixon was prior to his acceptance speech. This brought to mind one of the first principles of speech, that a person who shows no nervousness before or during an important public speech reflects insincerity.
A. B. WILLIAMS Kansas City, Kans.
Sir:
If we put Mr. Kennedy in the White House, there will be two small children, perhaps more, during his term of office. This means spilled milk and noodles, fingerprints and crayon marks on the hallowed walls, teeth marks on the furniture and puddles on the rugs. Perhaps we could issue a $5 bill with a line of diapers hanging from the Truman balcony!
On the other hand, if Mr. Nixon becomes President, it will undoubtedly mean pajama parties in the East Room, rock-'n'-roll music blasting forth from the windows, empty Coke bottles all over the lawn, and the White House phone forever tied up with teen-age chatter.
Decisions! Decisions!
(MRS.) CELIANN ROSE UHL
Markham, III.
Sir:
This is one diehard Calvinist who's voting for a good Christian Catholic over a hypocritical Protestant.
ANN ARTFELD Staunton, Va.
Sir:
As a Roman Catholic who is convinced that Nixon and Lodge are far more able to lead the country through the next eight years than are Kennedy, Bowles and Stevenson, I beg all the letter writers to let the religious issue drop.
I am confident that, if they are not constantly goaded, my fellow Catholics will vote their judgment rather than their clannishness, and the better man, Nixon, will win.
R. A. BALCH
Winona, Minn.
Who's for Whom?
Sir:
Now please don't think, "Oh, here's another angry Democrat!" I am not; I am an angry citizen and voter. Everyone knows that TIME likes the Republican Party—you say so yourself, and it is your privilege and prerogative to like whomever you please. But it is not your right, as a public news medium, to report the events in such a slanted, one-sided manner as to make one party appear all "white" and the other appear "black."
MABEL ROMM
Bellerose, N.Y.
Sir:
I realize, of course, that you may Well succeed in winning the election for Kennedy, but I would like you to know that the game is understood.