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HAROLD L. ICKES
3624 PROSPECT AVENUE. N. W.
WASHINGTON 7. D. C.
DUPONT 2281
December 9, 1950.
Dear Mr. Clancy:
I received your note of November 3 to which was attached
your by-line article on the political situation in Ohio. I
was not able to answer at the moment because of two trins out
of town and a subsecuent illness that laid me low for a period.
You were right in predicting that Sena tor Taft would win
but I suspect that you were as surorised as some of the rest
of us were by the size of his majority. To me, the only ex-
planation is that Republicans and even a large part of the
labor vote could not stomach Ferguson. I note that you pro-
posed to vote for Ferguson but I could never have done so.
I declined two urgent invitations to go into Ohio to speak
for Ferguson. It seemed to me that if the Democratic Party
wanted us to oppose Taft it should have given us something
better than the man who is alleged to have declared that he
would carry Formosa when he was asked his views on that sub-
ject. Of course, this may have been apocryphal but it may
also have been one of those witty inventions that says more
than a volume can.
Pretty soon now I want to write a column on the pending
constitutional amendment to limit the terms of the President.
There are so many important things to write about these days
that one cannot do much in one brief page a week in THE MEW
REPUBLIC.
Sincerely yours,
Honoel L.Jehes
Harold L. Ickes.
Mr. Daniel Francis Clancy,
P.O. Box 322,
Springfield, Ohio.