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...Sir: Your method of healing the nation is a little like seeking a Band-Aid for a case of tuberculosis. Why not step even farther back for perspective and work on the virus of our disease-that 73% of Americans live on 1% of the land? A system of tax incentives could be used to relocate companies and corporate headquarters outside the teeming cities. With a communications system such as ours, there is no reason for so many sources of employment to be located on overcrowded, crime-infested, air-polluted islands of humanity. The answer must surely be to make...
...Sir: Richard Nixon [Jan. 24] wanted them and now he has them: Viet Nam, ghettos, taxes, inflation, France, Russia, Cuba, gun control, hunger, nuclear nonproliferation and strikes. Also, he faces added worries because: 1) the majority of the voters rejected him, 2) he must live up to his promises of a modern Shangrila, and 3) he must accomplish all this with a fresh Cabinet and a Vice President who is the biggest joke in the history of American politics. Due to these factors, Richard Nixon should become the most prayed-for President in our nation's history...
...Sir: The game of attempting to categorize the "Nixon style" goes on. Permit me to suggest that Mr. Nixon is, above all, tough-minded. The nation has never been more ready for such a quality of mind. Toughness, by definition, is like leather-durable, flexible, dynamic, and should in no sense be equated with hardness-inflexible, brittle and weak. Our new President will need-and possesses-firmness, judgment, commitment, compassion and dedication. History, of course, will make the ultimate judgment. I believe that the times demand these qualities and that President Nixon will demonstrate them...
...Sir: I hope Nixon's suggestion that we stop shouting and start speaking softly catches on. How wonderful it would seem to be underwhelmed for a change...
...Sir: I am a proud black man, who was a ghetto orphan at six, but now surpass at least 97% of whites in education and income. What I resent is that when you publish a "Black and White Balance Sheet" [Jan. 24], you do not also explain that according to the 1960 census, a black man with four years of college can expect to earn less in a lifetime than a white who just finishes high school. What does this tell us about working hard, being clean, getting an education? Isn't this proof of how racist the system...