Autograph letter signed : [Sag Harbor, New York], to "Alicia," [1965 Dec. 11].

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Autograph letter signed : [Sag Harbor, New York], to "Alicia," [1965 Dec. 11].

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Proposing a commission or agency, under the Bureau of Standards, with a cabinet level position of Secretary of Nonsense; relating his position as advisor to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy and Johnson and to Adlai Stevenson in two unsuccessful presidential campaigns; saying that the "most difficult problem the new cabinet will have to face is the head-on collision of two or more opposing nonsensers."

1 item (4 p.) ; 31.6 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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