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SHEPARD MITCHELL TELEPHONE M.B. SILBERBERG OLIVE 3-7511 GUY KNUPP PEERY PRICE WILLIAM HINCKLE LAW OFFICES C.E. ERKEL ARTHUR GROMAN MITCHELL, SILBERBERG & KNUPP CHESTER 1. LAPPEN EDWARD RUBIN IRVING 1. AXELRAD 6399 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD BRADNER PETERSEN LOS ANGELES 48, CALIFORNIA JOHN L. NOURSE ALFRED T. MARSHALL GEORGE BENEDICT, JR. MACKLIN FLEMING HAROLD FRIEDMAN February 3, 1959 JAMES B.JENNINGS JAMES S/KOSTAS HILBERT P.ZARKY IN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO: MARTIN F. ROSTON HOWARD S.SMITH Honorable Richard M. Nixon Vice President of the United States Senate Office Building Washington 25, D. C. Dear Dick: I know of your deep interest and personal efforts and sacrifice in the task of bringing to the world in general an accurate and, therefore, favorable image of our country. I realize, of course, that this purpose is being pursued in many directions and by many methods. I am taking the liberty of calling your atten- tion to one activity with which, through the Motion Picture Industry, I have had some contact. I refer to the Informational Media Guaranty Program. I am informed that in the ten years of its operation through June 30, 1958, the program has made possible the export into 18 countries of American books, periodicals and films valued at about $150 million retail. This means many millions of readers of American books, magazines, newspapers, scientific and educational materials; it means many millions of viewers of American motion pictures. In 1958 a Senate subcommittee which included Senator Bill Knowland made a most laudatory appraisal of this activity. I understand that in the ten years of its activity this program has cost the fund - although this money has not been completely lost - some sixteen million dollars. My interest in this matter is not alone from the viewpoint of the motion picture industry which it enables to reach the people in many more or less remote lands - but also in its general value in giving these people a voluntary opportunity to learn of the life, literature and principles of our country.

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