Word: aksel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reply to Mrs. Shirley Jean Havens, 21, wife of Arvada (Colo.) Plumber William M. Havens, and mother of two. Last November she wrote the President asking for a statement of Republican principles. (Two months later she was tactfully scouted by Ike's old friend, Denver Banker Aksel Nielsen, who subsequently promised she would be answered by TV and swore her to secrecy.) "It is true," said Ike, "that government has to do many things which, individually, we cannot do for ourselves . . . But the principle still holds true; governments must refrain from unnecessary meddling in the daily, normal problems...