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if 2415 PETER G. DAYTON PHI KAPPA FRATERNITY 229 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE BOSTON 16, MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Oct.23,1949 Dear President Truman, ROBERT S. / = y am writing you, in the hope that similar such letters might reach your office, and thus be called to your attention. The recent appointment of an unknown, politically active housewife to the fost of ambassador # Engene anderson to Denmark smachs of ill-directed chanimisms of can see that you want to send a person to repe- sent the people who is represent atire of the people, but this is not kith the fast that such appoint- ments make the U.S. diplomatic corps and even the U.S.A. seem ridimlous and ordinary. 2 Why do politicians have to become diflomats. Why can't the person who represents us