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        "Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964",
        "Roberts, Roy Allison, 1887-1967",
        "Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951",
        "McCormick, Robert Rutherford, 1880-1955",
        "Garner, John Nance, 1868-1967",
        "Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908",
        "Gannett, Frank Ernest, 1876-1957",
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    "ocrText": "THE WHITE HOUSE\nBIREH AT ARCHIVES \"NATIONAL SERVICE RECORDS government THUMAN AND LIBERT\nSunday March 5, 1950.\nWASHINGTON\nThy dear The Keat. I'se leea reading\nthe Sunday Washing ton Star your revisal\nof the Republica Party is instituterestry\nNothing than M the a would real resiral would please of the 9 the of\nare consinent that the leadership of the\nSt Mon more + happen though malest the people\nRepublican Party hase a program\nto start with, was a acetionalparty.\nyou know, of course, that the 9. OP.\nUnited it ceases to he a sectional party\nit cant win.\nin # 1948 Mas that the Decracratic\nWhat I Has tying to prose and did prove\nPart is national party We Mon with\nout New a york, Peansyhacia, New Jersey another\nindustrial eact. We you without the\nsolidsouth.\" We non as the party of the\npeople as a whole- fameer, laforen,\nsmall business then - and even\nsome hig business then Now why ?\nwe Mon on a minori the Iffe 25%\nyou say 25% didn t note. Therefore\nhad soted it would have been a\nfriends, along with the pollaten halcon-\nlaudelide you and your columnit\nfined some six or seren million\n90 to the polls! Rechar kable! Issitit.\npeople that there was no reason to\nor Wasatit?\nNon can they he misbed by such loasy\ncan Re poled Ry people who for money.\nPeople no longer in this unite great country\neditors and managers as Heart, Th. Comick\nRoy Housand, Roy Roberts and old than gamett.\nHear bley much that the hand\nMagoa has long ago passed you and\nMark Sullisan R. In my you the both\nof you the flaming lifaals Now you\nare in the grosey Clearland John Jarace\nclass. you are living in 1888. Too fad.\nWe need your hair posser to meet\n1950 situations. I wish Ponce de Reoa\nhad feen succe ss ful- mid still hase\nyou and Mark as literal decreats.\nthest simerely\nNot mailed! HSV\nthe Frank Kent\nTHERE THE RECIVER U.S. THEARY SECURITY AND\nWashington Star\nWashington HC\nTHE FLYING WHITE House"
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