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Letter from Mary Hedrick to President Harry S. Truman
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Letter from Mary Hedrick to President Harry S. Truman
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3 letter
Oreg. Dec. 10, '50.
To the President of the United States.
Dear Mr. Truman;
This tempest in a teapot about a critic's
review of your daughter's concert seems most unim*
portant at this time. I am a professional musician
with many years of concert and symphony experience
and who learned long ago that critics are often un-
fair, unimortant, and beneath getting all steamed
up over.
Please, Mr. President, keep your mind on
all out mobilization at home, price controls and
whatever else that can be done to save our sons from
the horrors of Asiatic combat.
My son is twenty one years of age and has
been classified 1A in the draft; about to leave his
home and loved ones. There are hundreds of thousands
of mothers like me, who would thank God if there
were any that we, just by getting angry, could pro-
tect and help OUR children. Think it over please.
Respectfully Yours,
(hrs.) Mary Hedrick
U.S. HARRY S. GOVERNMENT AND LIBRARY
P.O. Box 43
Paulout, 7,
Oreg.