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- From: forrie@morwyn.uucp (Forrest Aldrich)
- Subject: Re: A letter to Clinton/Gore
- References: <1992Nov18.074528.14279@netcom.com>
- Organization: Vision Graphics
- Dover, NH
- USA
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:48:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.014854.513@morwyn.uucp>
- Reply-To: morwyn.uucp!forrie@unhtel.unh.edu (Forrest Aldrich - SysAdmin)
- Lines: 65
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- From article <1992Nov18.074528.14279@netcom.com>,
- jeffp@netcom.com (Jeff) has written:
- +--------------------
- | Dear Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore,
- |
- | This is not a letter of congratulations on your win of the
- | presidency, but I do congratulate you, and wish you great success
- | in the years to come.
- +--------------------
-
- Well, I would move to include a congratulations as a warm opening...
- even though they have received _many_ of these, it serves to
- 'set the mood'. Immediately, when I read that, I felt discouraged.
-
- [ ... some omittance, for brevity ... ]
-
- +--------------------
- | I was very glad to hear of your recent meetings with Mr. Bill
- | Moyers, and I do believe this is a great statement on your part
- | that you intend to help the american people and create and honest
- | government. I call upon you to rid us of the Secret Government, to
- | tear-down the wall of deciet that has separated the people from the
- | truth for so many decades, and make the US a truly
- | democratic society, and the world, a better place to live.
- +--------------------
- +--------------------
- | We will be watching, waiting, and hoping, that you will live up to
- | the greatness that is within you, and protect liberty and
- | happiness for us all.
- +--------------------
-
- Generally, a good letter ...
-
- The letter is good, but very poetic in some respects. I would move
- to write in a more detached manner, and perhaps include some
- specifics with regard to incidents... for example, you might
- include something specific to a dramatic abduction case; one that
- has been highly publicized...
-
- And I would probably steer away from being so accusational about
- the government, in a negative fashion. Again, maybe some factual
- accounts to support these accusations would be more appropriate.
-
- In addition to those, I would also suggest that the letter (if you
- agree to work with a 'group effort') be accompanied by many
- signatures with verifiable addresses and phone numbers (?)...
- those types usually get quicker responses. The trouble with that
- is how would you coordinate it? :)
-
- This is an excellent start, Jeff, indeed. Thanks for posting it.
- If you're willing (and others are) to work as a group with editing
- and submitting suggested inclusions/omissions/editing, this will
- be an excellent effort... dunno if doing it via a.a.v would be
- appropriate, but perhaps through private emailing...
-
- I can't imagine such a letter to be less than 4 pages, typed...
- particularly if we all work on it and so forth.
-
- Forrest
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