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05/08/1973
Letter
From Lyman Brownfield to Rosemary
Woods RE: Michael Kirernan. 2 pgs.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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LYMAN BROWNFIELD
185 SOUTH DREXEL AVENUE
COLUMBUS, OHIO 43209
May 8, 1973
Miss Rosemary Wood
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Dear Rosemary:
I had a call Tuesday afternoon from one Michael Kirernan,
a free lance reporter in Washington. He has been reviewing
biographical material concerning the President and has come up
with the incident reported by Don Jackson about the time during
the summer of 1936 when Freddie Albrink and Nixon boosted Bill
Perdue through the transom into the Dean's office in order to
see what the grades were. He is looking into this from the
standpoint that it might appear to have been early training for
Watergate.
He called me about the incident. I told him I wasn't
present, and he is going to call Albrink. We did discuss the
situation for a while, and when we concluded he left me with
the impression that he felt that this was a harmless student
prank, and that nothing more should be read into it. He
suggested that he might have been the first person to catch
this idea, and that perhaps others would come up with it later.
In response to his questions I advised him that the
incident had been discovered probably before the summer was
out, that no serious reprimand resulted, and that we were all
so close together that if Dean Horack had walked into the office
in the middle of the proceedings all three would have been
unruffled and would simply have invited him to draw up a chair
and help them find the grade records. I also suggested that it
was probably in character for Freddie to have originated the
prank (which I think is probably true). I am sure Albrink
will add no fuel to any fire, but perhaps the President or
someone in the office may want to know that this particular
thing is brewing.
Kirernan began by asking whether any of the Class had
sent the President messages of support. I said I did not know
of any, that I had been planning to write but had procrastinated
in favor of other pressing matters, but that the affection for
Miss Rosemary Wood
May 8, 1973
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the President held by the five classes who were with him in
school ran so deep that I was sure all of them supported him
in spirit, regardless of political differences. Having so
prompted, I am about to stop procrastinating long enough to
dictate a brief personal note, which if the President has time
and you think it appropriate you may want him to see.
Sincerely,
Lymm
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