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OCR Page 1 of 1203/11/1991 15:51
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ARTHUR SCHLESINGER R
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ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.
1 May 1995
Dear Mr President:
I thank you for your letter of 20 April (which
took more than a week to reach New York) and
only regret that I should have provoked you
into taking the time to write. I don't know
whether a letter I faxed to you on the 18th had
reached your desk before you wrote.
I don't blame you for feeling exasperated.
I well remember when I worked in the White
House in JFK days how irritated we felt about
criticism from the left when we believed we
were doing our damnedest to achieve common
objectives. I sympathize with the general line
of the Richard Rothstein piece (though he is
sometimes wrong on historical details). Ken
Galbraith and I were not out to organize an
anti-administration campaign; we were chatting
idly with John Harris and neglected to put
passing remarks off the record.
I do think it might help if you
occasionally called in liberals with experience
in government. We often read about White House
consultation with the DLC crowd, most of whom
have had no executive branch background; but
rarely with liberals who have been through the
mill. Any time you would like to hear out Ken, Ted
Sorensen, Bill vanden Heuvel, Joe Califano and
me, you have only to say the word. In the mean-
time, as I said in the postscript of my letter of
the 18th, our hearts are with you.
Ever sincerely yours,
Cash
The President of the United States
Box G40, 33 WEST 42 STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10036 TEL: 212/642.2060