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from an Original mouthpainted by 1. SCHRICKER
Published by the Association of Handicapped Artists, Inc., Buffalo
Litho by Holling Press, Inc., Buffalo, N.Y.
Printed in U.S.A.
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Dear Margaret,
l am writing to let
you know you are in
my thoughts and prayers
during your time of
testimony before the
House and Senate. may
God bless and keep yall.
Sincerely
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
Kevin V. Holaman
404 West 96th Terrace
USA29
Kansas City, MO AND 6411
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I pledge
25 JUL
Tallegiance.
1994
THE HONORABLE
MAGGIE A. WILLIAMS
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D C.
20500
THE WHITE HOUSE
Dear Kevin,
Hearing from my piends has time. really
Thank you for your thought ful card.
sustained me during this
Keep praying for me I need your
prayers.
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Handi-Card
FLOWERS IN VASE
26-4
From an Original mouthpainted by L LUBBE
Published by the Association of Handicapped Artists, Inc.
Litho in U S.A. by Holling Press, Inc., Buffalo, N.Y.
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Dearest Margret,
Just to let you Know
We love you, and are praying
for you.
We have Nodr name on
our prayer chain in 005
Department.
We Know your faith
in God will goide and direct
you,
Love and prays.
The Primary Dept. of Paseo
Buftist shurh.
Deitha Highto Mer, Supt,
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
Bertha Hightower
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5531 Surope Parkway
sulir. 25 PM I'L 04/
Kansas City, Mp.64130
1994
Honorable Moggie A. Williams
The white House
Washington D.C. 20500
THE WHITE HOUSE
Dear Mrs. Hightower-
many thanks for your beautiful note.
It is good to know that my name
department. I need your prayers
is on the prayer chain in your
and I am grabeful for your support
Sincerely Margare File
RICHARD JAMES MURPHY
aug. 11,1994
Dear Maggie,
what a star you are!
And dammed good tao ! Full of
grit, max ie and stamina. Jam sure
that your as teem for some of thome cross-
self righteous members who were be
examing you cauld hat any
lower than mine, but you did a guat job
of masking those committee it. There are whom sereral the public characters the
on would be justified in viewing, mc Carmack, in works
of the with min late mum Speaker high John regard: But you
Sure as here didn t let them guind you
down and for that, Jam really proud
of you!
Speaking of girt and
deter mination, there isn' A a Letter example
in america today than your boss, Mrs.
Streeton She has more etan justified my
fait in what it means to have a real
Democrat in the white House to take an
the hattle that are worth fighting As one
who knew Mrs. Roosenect, I an tall you
how proud I know she would he of aus
First Lady in whom She would see a great
deal of Renself.
Itherght you might he
interested in seasing the enclosed, which
Dare William asked me to write at
a recent re upterifor Gor. Romer. If
seems that his tory is indeed upeating
itself - same words, same opposition
and I hope with the sluve results.
Keep up the guat work which you are
doing. He story well treat your efforts
very well inleed.
for,
Dick meeting
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
Hon. margant Williams
Chief of Staff to the First Lady
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
9912 HARROGATE ROAD
BETHESDA. MARYLAND 20817
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
Sound Familiar?
By Dick Murphy
In the words of a great baseball seer, its "de ja vu all over again".
When I first came to Washington, forty years ago, the outlook for healthcare
reform looked dismal indeed. The Truman Administration, the first ever to
propose comprehensive national health insurance, had just left office two years
before, having proposed unsuccessfully the adoption of the Wagner-Murray-
Dingell (yes, the father of the current chairman of the House Energy and
Commerce Committee) bill on three occasions. Comprehensive health reform
having been soundly defeated ("socialism" said the AMA), healthcare advocates
(led by Wilbur Cohen, Bob Bail and Nelson Cruikshank) now decided to press for
the adoption of hospital insurance for just the elderly, who were then the poorest
and sickest part of our population. After trying unsuccessfully to secure
sponsorship of their proposal in the House by Cong. Jere Cooper of Tennessee
(yes, father of now Cong. Jim Cooper) who disapproved of "employer mandates",
they finally secured sponsorship of what became Medicare in 1957 by Cong.
Aime Forand of RI.
Over the next three years, the Forand bill was faced with ferocious opposition
from the American Medical Association; the National Association of
Manufacturers; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; most of the Republican Party;
the insurance industry; most Southern Democrats as well as other conservative
groups and was defeated twice in the House Ways and Means Committee in
1960 (both votes of 17 - 8) and in the Senate Finance Committee (where it had
the sponsorship of Sen. Clinton Anderson of NM) by a vote of 12 - 5.
In June of 1960, Gov. Averell Harriman and I held the first platform committee
hearing in Miami Beach on the subject of "Medicare", where several hundred
senior citizens jammed the hearing room to hear among others, Dr. Edward
Annis, then President of the American Medical Association, deliver a scorching
condemnation of Medicare as "socialism" and "the most deadly challenge to the
medical profession ever". A security escort was required to get Dr. Annis safely
out of the room following his testimony, so greatly had he angered the seniors.
"Medicare" was subsequently written into the Democratic Platform in Los Angeles
in July of 1960 and Jack Kennedy successfully ran for President (I was one of his
national campaign coordinators) with the adoption of that issue as his principal
campaign promise.
Still, tenacious opposition of virtually all of the Republican Party and many
conservative Democrats in Congress as well as relentless campaigns by
business and medical groups outside Congress were to deny President Kennedy
his most ardent legislative wish. The King-Anderson bill (as the Administration's
Medicare bill was then known) was defeated by a two vote margin in the full
Senate in 1962.
When Lyndon Johnson became President, he immediately took up Jack
Kennedy's cause and moved to secure the adoption of Medicare which he did in
the Senate in August of 1964, by 5 votes! However, he lacked the votes in the
House where Cong. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas was still opposed. LBJ. then had
Medicare written into the Democratic Platform of 1964, and campaigned on it as
his major promise if elected. As one of his sub-cabinet surrogate campaigners, I
remember receiving instructions to highlight Medicare as the major issue in our
campaign speeches (of which I made over twenty in 1964).
Even having received a huge majority vote and carrying a large Democratic
majority in the Congress, LBJ still was confronted with solid Republican
opposition to "employer mandates" (as they had opposed Social Security and its
"employer mandate" 30 years before) as well as only "soft" support or outright
continued opposition from many "moderate" and Southern Democrats (led by the
chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Harry Byrd of VA). It took
every bit of LBJ's famous "treatment" plus the 40 new Democratic votes in the
House and the brilliant lobbying genius of Larry O'Brien, Wilbur Cohen and Bob
Ball to persuade Wilbur Mills, then chairman of the House Ways and Means
Committee, to change his mind; to get Sen. Byrd to hold hearings and Senator
Everett Dirksen to accept a deal from LBJ to take the Administration's proposal
for "Medicare" (hospital insurance for the elderly) and combine it with the AMA's
proposal for "Eldercare" (medical care for the means-tested needy, an expansion
of the Kerr-Mills program, which became "Medicaid") which Dirksen and the
Republicans backed. Added to these proposals was the option of medical
insurance for the elderly, paid through Social Security. Thus was born the
second greatest piece of social legislation in this century (next to Social
Security), which was finally passed by a huge margin even though many
members had opposed Medicare (then Cong. Bob Dole and Bob Michael among
them) on every vote up to the final one (exactly as had happened with Social
Security in 1935)!
For almost the next three decades, only one administration before President
Clinton - that of President Nixon - was to propose a comprehensive health
insurance program paid for by an employer mandate (sponsored by Senator Bob
Packwood of Oregon, who now opposes them) but that received very little
support in Congress, opposed by both liberals and conservatives in both parties:
President Clinton campaigned on the adoption of a plan for comprehensive
health insurance as his major campaign promise in 1992, and he and Mrs.
Clinton have been able for the first time in history to get four congressional
committees to report out comprehensive health care bills, which have now been
melded into the Gephardt proposal in the House and the Mitchell bill in the
Senate. These bills would simply give to all citizens the same kind of medical
care which members of Congress have quite properly had for themselves for 35
years, and virtually every major country in the world has had for many decades.
Will this momentous opportunity, which has come this close only once every
thirty years or so in this century, be seized or thrown away. Only our
Congressional representativeshave the power to decide that in the next few
weeks.
Today, there is no prouder boast from a member (or former member of Congress
or their heirs) than the fact that he or she or their mother or grandfather cast their
vote for Social Security or Medicare. Their courageous actions are revered by
millions who owe their very lives to those momentous votes. Those who voted
against these legislative landmarks are hardly remembered by anyone and most
of them would prefer that people did forget their votes.
The amazing thing is that, then as now, the same tired old canards from many of
the same groups were raised against social insurance and employer mandates.
"Socialism"; hundreds of thousands of jobs lost; putting people out of business;
loss of competitiveness; doing too much at one time; system should be voluntary;
insurance industry would disappear - these were some of the arguments heard
against Social Security in 1935. None of them proved valid.
Again with Medicare we heard "Socialism"; taking away choice of doctor and
hospital; government control of medicine; driving doctors out of medicine; killing
research; reducing quality of medicine; huge loss of jobs. Again, none of this
happened!
Members of Congress would do well to remember these smoke screens as they
summon up their courage to cast probably the most momentous vote of their
lifetime and do the right thing on an issue which Theodore Roosevelt initiated in
1912 and which church leaders today have said goes to the core of fundamental
morality and human decency. The continued cost of doing nothing is really the
greatest cost of all, throwing the federal budget deficit into chaos; driving state
budgets to near bankruptcy, giving the middle class millions no relief from the cost
burdens they now carry and forcing national healthcare expenditures well over
20% of the GDP. History is watching and every member knows it. Sen. Mitchell
gave up a Supreme Court nomination for healthcare reform; he has a right to ask
other members what contribution they are willing to make for the common good.
Dick Murphy served as Assistant Postmaster General in the Kennedy and
Johnson Administrations, as well as Director of Platform Hearings for the 1960
Democratic National Convention. He was a longtime associate of Lawrence F.
O'Brien.
The Lord is my strength
and my shield:
my heart trusted
in him,
and I am helped:
therefore my heart
greatly rejoiceth;
and with my song
will I praise him.
PSALM 28:7
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I love you !
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PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
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1994
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Hear hus. Murphy,
you have been in my corner
for a very long time and you are
still in my Corner. your thoughtful
card is evidence of that. Thank
you for believing in me "lo these many
years." Continue to keep me in your
prayers.
Love
margaret ann
THE WHITE HOUSE
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How wonderful to hear from you. your
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Margaret ann Williams
The White House
Washington DC 20500
THE WHITE HOUSE
Dear hus. Gales-
thank you for writing. If was
good to hear from you and
meant so much to me. For
your thoughts and especially
for your prayers am grateful
Sincerely Margared ann
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 15, 1994
Mr. Donald M. Stewart
President of The College Board
45 Columbus Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10023-6992
Dear Donald:
Sorry to have been slow in responding to your letter of July
6th regarding your invitation to President and Mrs. Clinton to
greet the National Forum members while they are in Washington in
late October.
Your letter has been forwarded to Mrs. Clinton's scheduling
director. I wish I could be optimistic but I need to let you
know that Mrs. Clinton is limiting her commitments until after
October.
Please accept my apologies for this late response and my
best wishes.
Maggin Margaret A. Williams
Sincerely,
Chief of Staff to the First Lady
The College Board
45 Columbus Avenue, New York, New York 10023-6992
(212) 713-8000
Office of the President
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July 6, 1994
Ms. Margaret Williams
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Chief of Staff
Office of the First Lady
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Maggie:
I hope that this finds you well and that I get to see you again soon.
In the meantime, I am enclosing a copy of my June 28 letter to the
President and First Lady in the hope that they might be able to greet
our membership at our National Forum in Washington sometime during the
period October 26-28. This is the largest gathering of school and
higher ed professionals in the country which would provide an excellent
audience for the President and Mrs. Clinton to express their values and
views on American education. The First Lady was our principle speaker
in 1989 and was absolutely superb. She received a standing ovation and
was almost carried out of the auditorium on the shoulders of our
delegates. I know her speech resulted in a great deal of support for
the President from the educational community and this is something that
I want to happen again. If there is any way that you might be helpful
in my effort to secure their presence at our meeting, I would be deeply
grateful. Please call or have a member of your staff call me should you
have any questions. Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Warm regards,
Sincerely,
Don
Donald M. Stewart
President
P.S.
Enclosed is some background information on the College
Board. Please know that I have also asked Alexis Herman
to help us.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Then Return
letter to
August 12 1994
Mr. Donald M. Stewart
for Comments
meesonal
President of The College Board
45 Columbus Avenue
New York N.Y. 10023-6992
Dear Don: Donal Q
Thanks
Sorry to have been slow in responding to your letter of July
Maggie
6th regarding your invitation to President and Mrs. Clinton to
greet the National Forum members while they are in Washington in
late October.
has been forwared
I have forwarded your letter to Mrs. Clinton's scheduling
director. I wish I could be optimistic but I need to let you
know that Mrs. Clinton is limiting her commitments until after
October.
Please
I hope you will X accept my apologies for this late response
and my best wishes.
Sincerely,
Margaret A. Williams
Chief of Staff to the First Lady
Dear Don:
Sorry to have been slow in responding to your letter
of July 6th regarding your invit ation to President
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and Mrs. Clinton to greet the National Forum members while
they are in Washington in late October.
I have forwarded your letter to Mrs. Clinton's scheduling
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director. I wish I could be optimistic but I need to
let you know that Mrs. Clinton is limiting her commitments
until after the election.
I hope you will accept my apologies for this late
response and my best wishes.
(Maggie -- maybe Alice could send them a letter of greeting
to be read at their meeting)
The College Board
45 Columbus Avenue, New York, New York 10023-6992
(212) 713-8000
Office of the President
FEDERAL EXPRESS
June 28, 1994
The President and Mrs. Clinton
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President and Mrs. Clinton:
I am writing to invite you to join the members of the College Board when we convene our 1994 National
Forum at the Washington Hilton Hotel, October 26 to 28, 1994. Enclosed are some printed materials
about the College Board that contain background information you may find useful as you consider my
request.
The College Board champions educational excellence for all students through the on-going collaboration
of its member schools, colleges, universities, education systems, and organizations. The National Forum
is our major agenda-setting function. In 1993, our Forum focused on the challenges of advancing reform.
Last year, our major speakers included Secretary of Education Richard Riley, Secretary of Labor Robert
Reich, and Texas legislator Wilhemina Delco.
In addition to Mrs. Clinton, who addressed us in 1989, other recent speakers who have helped us to
address important issues have included John Akers, Lamar Alexander, Arthur Ashe, Derek Bok, Louis
Harris, Barbara Hatton, David Kearns, Marian Wright Edelman, Roy Romer, Albert Shanker, and
Andrew Young.
In 1994, our Forum theme, shaped by our Trustees, will be Transitions in Learning: How Will Schools
and Colleges Shape the Future? Under the leadership of our chair, Peter Stanley, President, Pomona
College, our Forum will bring together more than 1,600 delegates from College Board member
institutions from across the country for three days of exploration of how to make student transitions
from middle school to high school, high school to college, and school or college to work -- truly
transitions in learning.
The National Forum is an important opportunity for the voices of educators to be heard in discussions
of access to high standards of learning, equity of opportunity, and sufficient financial support so that
every student is prepared for success in college and work.
Your joint strong commitment to educational excellence for all students is embodied in your history of
public and private sector activities. Our delegates would be honored by your presence at our Forum.
Sadly, due to the recent death of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, much media attention has focused on the
end of an era called Camelot. Those of us who are committed to the belief that all children can learn and
must have the opportunity to learn are unwilling to see the ideals of Camelot fade. We hope you might
take the opportunity of our Forum to reinforce your already strong statements of the values of high
education standards for all citizens in a democracy.
A nonprofit educational association serving students, schools, and colleges through programs designed to expand educational opportunity
2
As you may know, the College Board is a nationwide membership association of nearly 3,000 schools,
colleges, universities, school and university systems, and education departments, agencies, and
associations.
On behalf of our members, we own and sponsor a number of programs including the Advanced
Placement Program and the SAT; we are actively involved in financing of higher education through our
College Scholarship Service; we sponsor research and we undertake public service activities.
The Board's impact on American education extends well beyond these better known services. We support
education reform through major public services undertakings, such as our EQUITY 2000 project, which
is designed to prove that all students can learn. In operation in six large school systems around the
country, EQUITY 2000 is creating new expectations of students and establishing new standards for
teachers and counselors. Our Pacesetter initiative, in collaboration with major discipline associations,
is developing a model approach to curriculum, teacher training and development, and assessment for all
students prior to high school graduation. Our ExPAN pilot project, which is electronically linking
schools and colleges nationwide to streamline and improve the college admission process, is the first
component of an array of activities called Transition 2000 that will by the millennium integrate teaching,
counseling, assessment, and transition services for millions of our nation's students.
Through the College Board since its founding in 1900, educators have voluntarily established national
standards regarding academic preparation for higher education - -- what students should know and be able
to do.
I hope that you will agree that our Forum and its breadth of attendees and visibility within the education
community provides an appropriate platform to further your goals for American education reform. Our
program can best accommodate you mid to late afternoon on Friday, October 28, although late afternoon
on Thursday, October 27, is also a possibility.
The members of the College Board, my colleagues on the Board of Trustees, and I would be greatly
honored by your joint presence at our Forum. I will contact your office in the next few weeks to
determine when we might expect a preliminary response to this request. Thank you for considering this
invitation and warmest best wishes.
Sincerely,
Won
Please
Donald M. Stewart
President
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 12, 1994
Richard Augustine, Sr.
3406 East Nighthawk Way
Phoenix, Arizona 85044
Dear Mr. Augustine:
Thank you very much for taking the time to
write. To expedite handling your concerns, I have
forwarded your letter to the White House Agency
Liason Office. Please be assured that your letter
will be given every consideration.
Sincerely,
Margaret A Williams
Chief of Staff to the
First Lady
Richard Augustine. Sr.
3406 East Nighthawk Way
Phoenix. Arizona 85044
August 1. 1994
Ms. Margaret (Maggie) Williams
Chief of Staff for the First Lady
The White House
Washington. D.C. 20500
Dear Ms. Williams:
In the year of 1955 I joined the United States Army
and served until 1975. During that time I cultivated no
political allies and now I like so many others find our-
selves as warriors who served and now we are forgotten.
I have written you before and I truly beg your in-
duligence for people who are desparate do things they norma-
lly would not do. But being a black man in America I find
myself a member of the group which is now being catagorized
as the have nots.
This label is being placed on us because we have in
many regions of this country no represetation. This situtat-
ion is becoming more predominate because Congress is spend-
ing their time chasing a shadow in which they can not catch
and has no bearing in alleviating the problems we have in
this country.
I say this for in the Constitution Article II
section 4 It makes the following statement. "the President.
Vice President and ali civil officers of the United States.
shall be removed from office on impeachment for conviction
of. treason. bribery. or other high crimes and misdemanors".
This tell me and others citizens of this country the first
ladies finacial dealings and Whitewater has nothing to do
with the duties of either the President or the first lady
and the people who work for them and her need to start using
the Constitution as means of eliminating the undue pressure.
My letter is because I as a citizen of this country
have been forced to take my problem to the Federal Court
because Congress will not do their job and mistakes they
have created in the past is responsible for my delimna and
millions like me. In 1947 they passed the National Security
Act which gave to the Pressident the power of delegation to
his Executive Departments. This right was founded under
Title 5 section 301 This power was only supposed to be for
the authorization to write the the rules and regulations for
governing their Departments not for laws of the country.
Many of the people in the Executive Departments did
not read all of the rules only part which stated they could
write statutes. Two of the principles rules are very import-
ant and have created much unrest in America. One rule states
they are excluded from writing rules which would affect the
America economy of one hundred million dollars. The second
which really places the red flag in front of people like one
in front of a bull. This is under the guidelines of the 5th
Admendment where it states no property shall be taken with-
out due compensation.
In the year 1803 James Madison had been appointed
Secretary of State The President appointed a gentleman by
the name of Marbury and three others to the position of
Justice of the Peace in Washington D.C. Secretary Madison
did not want the individuals in the position and his stance.
it was not officials until they took office. Mr Marbury took
it to the Supreme Court who stated. "that once appointed
this was all that was necessary". all four people attained
their position, the case was Marbury V Madison.
Since that time under the Mandamus Vanue Act all
problems pertaining to ambassadors. other public ministers
and consuls come under the scrutinity of the Supreme Court.
This means although I am going to a Federal Court my direct
appeal is with the Supreme Court.
The question you are asking and I can hear all the
way in Phoenix. Arizona, what can I do? Ms. Williams this
problem I have is pandora's box and someone needs to look at
it before I go public. In 1974 a statute concerning the
Pension program was written by the Departments of Labor and
Treasury. These people are stating. "this statute only per-
tains to the private sector and there is no law pertaining
to the government and political subdivisions".
What this has allowed the government and politi-
cal subdivisions to do is use money which does not belong to
them and place many citizens in our country in a financial
predictment which should not be. If I had direct access to
the President or anyone who would listen I would substanti-
ate the information I am revealing to you.
The part which angers me is this will come about on
President Clintons watch and it should have happened years
ago. Ms. Williams this is not idle chatter for I have
terminal cancer and all I am attempting to do is protect my
wife. I am a college graduate and exceptionally precise in
research and once I get started I do not quit until I have
all the pertinent information.
Those people who are in the areas which are respon-
sible for this problem might indicate I am a nut case. But I
assure you that if I was not sure of my position no way
would I attempt to put it in the court system. But if no one
will believe you and imply Congress wrote laws for the
private sector which does not pertain to the government and
polictical subdivision than Congress has a problem for this
would be a bill of attainder. That Department of Defense
writes the regulations for retirement pay and annuity of
retired military people. another Constutional violation.
That they will use a law written in 1891 pertaining to
officers to keep from paying enlisted personnel for time
served. Than a citizen must do what a citizen must do.
Sincerely yours
Richard Augustine. Sr.
(602) 759-9149
THE WHITE HOUSE L.L.
WASHINGTON
August 16, 1994
Bridget McMinn
Director of Public Affairs
First Hospital Corporation
240 Corporate Boulevard
Norfolk, Virginia 23502
Dear Bridget:
Your words of support and
encouragement meant so much to me during
the past weeks. It was very kind of you
to take the time to write as you did and I
am grateful.
Please accept my thanks and best
wishes.
Sincerely,
Massin First Lady
Margaret A. Williams
Chief of Staff to the
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FIRST HOSPITAL CORPORATION
BRIDGET McMINN
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
240 Corporate Boulevard, Norfolk, VA 23502
(804) 459-5100 FAX (804) 459-5219
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DEAR MAGGIE -
I CAN'T HELP BUT CONGRATULATE YOU ON
YOUR INDOMINABLE SPIRIT. YOUR RESPONSE
AT THE "INQUISITION" RELATED TO TRUTH WAS
so STRONG, so CLASSIC. As I HEARD You
DELIVER THAT LINE, I FELT SUCH PRIDE
FOR YOUR DOUBTLESS COURAGE - THOUGH
I FLASHED ON THE FALT THAT YOU
WOULD PROBABLY RATHER BE TRYING
ON HATS of AMY D. Bridget
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August 16, 1994
Mary Bourdette
Deputy Assistant to Secretary
DHHS/OS/ASL
Room 416 G
H.H.H. Building
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
Dear Mary:
Your words of support and
encouragement meant so much to me during
the past weeks. It was very kind of you
to take the time to write as you did and I
am grateful.
Please accept my thanks and best
wishes.
Sincerely,
Margaret A. Williams
Chief of Staff to the
First Lady
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Dear Maggie,
Please remember that Do may
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and I care duply about you.
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WASHINGTON
August 16, 1994
Carl Anthony
1720 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
Dear Carl:
Your words of support and
encouragement meant so much to me during
the past weeks. It was very kind of you
to take the time to write as you did and I
am grateful.
Please accept my thanks and best
wishes.
Margaret Sincerely, A.
Williams
Chief of Staff to the
First Lady
Dear Maggie
August 4/84
first a note to soy you were excellent
today - you handled Graunm fantastically by
cabinly patty everything in context. not shown The in
goodness that testoming is detailed
Soundbites because your careful
explanations made it work. And you me
and I'm also gled you mem ww Then!
helping to not first change, but improve America
Best Regads -
Hong in There - Cas Conthony
Carl Anthony
1720 16th 55 NW
WASH DC 20009
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