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Letter To The Editor
Woodville Va.
November 12, 1960
Rappahannock News Washington, Va.
To The Editor: It is' my sincere hope that the Senior Senator from Virginia, whom your paper referred to as the “grinning little mountain climber,” does not take the Rappahannock News. However, I will be grateful if you will permit me to express my sentiments, as a citizen of the county, in an open letter to the Senator through your paper. Dear Senator Byrd:
I feel that I can safely say that many of your loyal supporters in Rappahannock, had they been called upon to write the election report, would have stated that “although Nixon and Ixwlge carried Virginia, the Democrats carried the county” and the Nation without the blessing of a statesman who, even when the going is ‘tough’ never fails to stand firmly for his convictions and who places the Nation above questionable party politics.” His endorsement, due to the respect so many have for his wis_ will always put his Country before dom and their knowledge that he party, would have helped to give Senator Kennedy a larger majority. Regardless of the side we supported, we are proud that \ ivginia’s Senior Senator stood courageously by his convictions and did what he believed right any! by so doing made our faith stronger and our feeling of freedom more secure in the knowledge of having a Statesman fighting our political battles and not a Razzle-Dazzle Petty Politician, who seeks personal profit or political gain without regard to ultimate consequences. By comparison, we might even have gone so far as to casually inquire in the election report, if many of the readers remembered a day in July in the state of California, a supposedly
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