Letter from Lillie Faye Renegar to President Harry S. Truman, with Attached Newspaper Clipping

clipping R. OLSEN, PRESIDENT R. OLSEN OIL COMPANY 2809-14 APCO TOWER OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. September 7, 1948 286-A Honorable Harry S. Truman President of United States Washington, D. C. Dear President: Enclosed please find clipping from the ,Daily Oklahoman ¥144-A-R setting forth Elmer T., Peterson's comments on your & socialized medicine! proposal, which, I may add, expresses the opinion of all clear thinking Americans. TRUMAN I am Secretary to the President of an independent oil ARCHIVES ANG 1 company and come in contact with many, many people from varied RECORAS SEPVICE a walks of life, from the millionaire business man to the roughneck SOVERAMENT on the drilling rig, from the bookkeeper in the offices to the farmer on whose farm we may be drilling a well, and, in discussing today's problems confronting the people of the world, I find they are all without exception very adverse to socializing anything in the United States and much prefer our American way of free enterprise. Not only that, but the people every where are greatly disturbed over the socialistic trend the Government is now taking. Now, Mr. President, being a Democrat myself, I can not become convinced that you actually believe socialism in any form, however small, is the answer to any of our problems. I can not be- lieve that is a true reflection of your own ideas, as you have al- ways seemed a fundamentally sound man with your feet.more or less on the ground. We all know that a Country can not function on either capital or labor when taken alone, we know that the two must work to- gether, but neither can a nation progress and grow economically or otherwise when it is under Government domination in any form, and I do not believe the American people will sit idly by and do nothing about it.