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Box 19, Folder 11, Document 42
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McDONALD & NEWTON
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
WESLEY E. McDONALD SUITE 715 B. AUSTIN NEWTON, JR.
VIRGINIA OFFICE 815 157TH STREET. N. W. VIRGINIA OFFICE
3675 N. MILITARY ROAD 100 WOODSIDE DRIVE
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA WASHINGTON, D. ©. 20005 MCLEAN, VIRGINIA
JA
71213
DI 7-9140 693-9004
September 30, 1966
Mr. Ivan Allen
Office of the Mayor
Atlanta, Georgia
My dear Mayor:
On yesterday, Thursday the 29th, I listenend with amazement to the
television broadcast and read in the Washington Post this morning of your
statement concerning the nomination of Mr. Lester Maddox as the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Georgia.
While I am not a resident or a voter in your state, I cannot refrain,
as a United States citizen and a voter of the State of North Carolina and
one who all his life has been interested in and supported the Democratic
party, from writing you to express my feelings with respect to your comments.
In my humble opinion, you have slandered and case unfair aspersions
on the intelligence, sense and honesty of purpose of over 425,000 citizens
of Georgia who cast their votes for Mr. Maddox.
It is unfortunate that a public official such as yourself would take
such an attitude and speak out in the manner that you have in the face of
the strong mandate of the voters expressing their choice.
Your hasty and unwarranted expressions give a new insight into your
extreme views and you certainly have disqualified yourself from any further
public service by such derogatory comments about your own citizens.
I shall look forward with pleasure and anticipation to the time when
you next seek re-election as the mayor of the fine city of Atlanta in the
sincere hope that the “idiots, rabblerousers, a etc. as you described
them, will pass judgment on you.
Very truly , oF
Whole ee
Wesley E. mnald, Sr. =
f la
WEM; tp &
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
WESLEY E. McDONALD SUITE 715 B. AUSTIN NEWTON, JR.
VIRGINIA OFFICE 815 157TH STREET. N. W. VIRGINIA OFFICE
3675 N. MILITARY ROAD 100 WOODSIDE DRIVE
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA WASHINGTON, D. ©. 20005 MCLEAN, VIRGINIA
JA
71213
DI 7-9140 693-9004
September 30, 1966
Mr. Ivan Allen
Office of the Mayor
Atlanta, Georgia
My dear Mayor:
On yesterday, Thursday the 29th, I listenend with amazement to the
television broadcast and read in the Washington Post this morning of your
statement concerning the nomination of Mr. Lester Maddox as the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Georgia.
While I am not a resident or a voter in your state, I cannot refrain,
as a United States citizen and a voter of the State of North Carolina and
one who all his life has been interested in and supported the Democratic
party, from writing you to express my feelings with respect to your comments.
In my humble opinion, you have slandered and case unfair aspersions
on the intelligence, sense and honesty of purpose of over 425,000 citizens
of Georgia who cast their votes for Mr. Maddox.
It is unfortunate that a public official such as yourself would take
such an attitude and speak out in the manner that you have in the face of
the strong mandate of the voters expressing their choice.
Your hasty and unwarranted expressions give a new insight into your
extreme views and you certainly have disqualified yourself from any further
public service by such derogatory comments about your own citizens.
I shall look forward with pleasure and anticipation to the time when
you next seek re-election as the mayor of the fine city of Atlanta in the
sincere hope that the “idiots, rabblerousers, a etc. as you described
them, will pass judgment on you.
Very truly , oF
Whole ee
Wesley E. mnald, Sr. =
f la
WEM; tp &
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