Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sir / Your story "Hurrying a Heart Attack" [April 15] gives Rosenman and Friedman's suggestion that an aggressive, competitive Type A personality might be able to slow himself down by writing "his own obituary." But wouldn't this Type A fellow, upon reading the obituary, decide that he had not accomplished enough, that time was running out on him, and that he had better hurry back to the grind...
...Sir / Reading "Why Those Tapes Were Made" [April 22] gave me a warm feeling. It is comforting to know that the President like everyone else harbors a bitter and savage hatred for people who have angered or crossed him and that he is not above using locker-room language. Why should anyone find such human traits offensive? Had Harry Truman's presidential conversations been recorded, an asbestos tape recorder probably would have been required...
...Sir / If in fact Nixon is innocent of all wrongdoing in Watergate, he must prove his case by making public all relevant tapes. But for the public to hear such "locker-room language" by a President would degrade the presidency, and that is unthinkable for Nixon...
...Sir / Speaking of salty presidential language, one recalls when John Kennedy referred to the Prime Minister of Canada as ans.o.b...
...Sir / Qiryat Shemona [April 22] is another senseless page in the bloody history of the Middle East. The present Arab governments may at last be willing to officially accept the existence and territorial integrity of the state of Israel. But not until they stop harboring, condoning and supporting the terrorists morally and financially, not until they start treating them for what they are -common criminals-can there ever be a true and lasting peace in the area...