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HAROLD L. ICKES 3624 PROSPECT AVENUE, N. W. WASHINGTON 7. D.C. DUPONT 2281 March 11, 1949. My dear Mr. Clancy: I am glad to learn from your letter of March 7 that the proposed twenty-second amendment has been defeated in Indiana. Evidently you out in some good work there. I also note that you are making some progress in getting a committee together. I am surprised that you have not heard from former Senator Guffy. I expect to be in touch with him shortly, and will speak to him. I hope that the operation that you speak of will neither be serious nor lay you up too long. You are doing a good job. It is really nothing less than sneering impertinence of the politicians to disregard the will of the people as expressed both in 1940 and 1944, and attempt to force on them a limitation of presidential tenure which clearly they do not want. Thank you for letting me see the clipping which I return herewi th. Sincerely yours, Harold L. Ickes. Mr. Daniel Francis Clancy, 532 South Fountain Avenue, Springfield, Ohio. Encl: