Correspondence Between Harold Ickes and Wallace McClure

COPY COPY COPY COPY COSMOS CLUB Washington 5, D. C. February 23, 1949 Dear Mr. Ickes A California friend has sent me a copy of your article, stated to be from the Los Angeles Daily News, February 10, 1949, dealing with the pending amendment to the United States Consti- tution seeking to restrict the people in their free choice of thier President. I am deeply gratified that you have, with so much force and power, taken up the struggle to prevent ratifi- cation. I should be grateful if you would tell me whether there exists any national or other organi- zation for making known the aspects of the case which you so admirably set forth in your article and, if not, whether you think such an organization feasible or useful. As a member of the American Political Science Association I have been cor- responding with several of my fellow-members with a view to the use of such persuasiveness as we have with our State legislatures. But obviously such individual action can be of little effect. I had the pleasure of meeting you at Sandusky a decade ago on the occasion of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle of Lake Erie. Faithfully, /s/ Wallace McClure Enclusre Wallace McClure The Honorable Harold Ickes, 3624 Prospect Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C.