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    "ocrText": "JAN 15\nPampa, Texa: S\nJanuary 13, 1949\nThe Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson,\nUnited States Senate,\nWashington, D.C.,\nDear Sir;-\nPlease accept my sincere thanks and congratulations\nfor your action in recommending that the Mexican who was\nrefused funeral service in South Texas be buried in Arlington.\nIt seems to me that if a man is good enough to be dressed in\nOD and sent to foreign soil to give his life he is good\nenough be buried anywhere in the country. I hope it will be\npossible for his parents and family to be present at the\nArlington Cemetary services.\nI'11 tell you right frankly that I am no NEW DEALER\nand I think we are headed straight for bankruptcy if we take\non all the continued New Deal schemes of bailing out public\nmoney to every so and so all over the globe. It seems we must\nrehabilitate all and sundry all over the world, but a disabled\nveteran has to battle for months or years to get a disability\nclaim allowed, and not then without the assistance of one of\nthe Veterans organizations.\n\"Good old Joe\" wrapped F.D. R. around his finger at\nTeheran and Yalta and we're paying the bill now.How long, I\nask you can we continue to spend two hundred thousand dollars\na day because the Soviets made a monkey of us with their\nsecret deals. If the results of the war had been reversed, if\nwe had lost,how many food laden ships would be headed WEST\nacross the Atlantic instead of EAST ? How many Kraut flyers\nwould risk their necks to bring us coal while we sat on our\nhands in our coal fields ? Now don't spring that old worn out\ngag, \"Would you let them starve?\" I've known lots of Germans\nin different parts of the country and I never knew one to\nstarve yet. They have sence enough to not destroy their crops.\nWhat about the expensive mess we've made of the potato\nsituation? I'd like to hear some thing about a \"Saving\nProgram\" for the American people instead of the usually\nadvertised \"Spending Program\".\nThanks again for your action in the Mexican case,\nBox 167,Route 2\nSincerely yours,\nPabt.co\n[2 of 2]"
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