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All of which seems to argue for taking the President's advice. Not that anyone will. Not that anyone should. All the prudence involved in not writing letters can't hold a candle to the brave helplessness of putting oneself on the line. "I have concealed nothing from you," Johnson closed a letter to a woman he loved, "nor do I expect ever to repent of having thus opened my heart." —By Roger Rosenblatt