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Letter from Arnold Tiegreen to President Harry S. Truman
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Letter from Arnold Tiegreen to President Harry S. Truman
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First Baptist Church
ARNOLD TIEGREEN, Pastor
MRS. O. A. HOLMES, Clerk
Phone 155
Leoti, Kansas
1-H
May 7, 1950.
Con
Hon. H. S. Truman,
President of the United States of America,
T
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. President:
As holding the highest office in the land, and a position exceeded
in honor and trust by no one in the world, you, as a person, wield an
HARRY TRUMAN ARCHIVES "NATIONAL AND LIGHARY
enormous influence in all your actions and practices.
I assure you, we have often prayed for you, and will continue to do
so; but in view of many stories told matter-of-factly in the press, I
fear you are wielding an adverse influence over many of our youth.
These stories are concerning your poker-playing for stakes, 'although
small' and your indulging in intoxicating liquors. If you have been doing
these things, won't you please, for thesake of our youth cease from it in
the future? of, if these stories are false, won't you please also for the
sake of the moral and spiritual influence you can bring to bear, denounce
these evils of gambling and drinking?
I understand that you are a member of the Baptist Church in your home
city; in order to do that you certainly must have pledged allegiance to Jesus
Christ as Lord? Please read in the New Testament, Romans 14:21.
Yours, in the Name of Christ as Lord, and for a cleaner, purer, and
greater United States of America.