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TAX DIVISION
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL
WASHINGTON
HATIONAS
THERON LAMAR CAUDLE
October 17, 1951
RECORDS
My dear Mr. President:
I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed being
with you and your legion of friends back in my State the
other day in Winston Salem.
You made a wonderful speech and it was well received.
After we saw you off at the airport we went back to Thurmond
Chatham's home for a little get-together, and I heard nothing
but praise for you.
As an alumnus of old Wake Forest, I want to thank
you with all my heart for taking time out to recognize this
great Baptist institution, which has one of the finest law
schools, one of the finest medical schools and certainly one
of the finest religious schools in the country. When Dr.
Tribble was in Washington and would drop by to see me, he
was hoping and praying that you would find time to go. I
told him that I thought you were a great believer in the
smaller institutions of learning and since you were the fore-
most Baptist in the land that if circumstances would permit
you eventually would find it possible to go.
I want you to know, Mr. President, that you are a
great inspiration to me. You always have been.
Yesterday I was talking to a great admirer of yours,
Jess Larson. We were chatting over the phone and he said he
had seen you recently, and this is what he said to me:
"Lamar, he is one fine and good person. Every time I see
him he puts a stiff rod up my back, and every time I leave
him I am hoping I can be a better servant for the Administration.
11
This admiration is commonplace, Mr. President, every-
where I go. Every time I see you I realize anew that here is
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