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ALS signed “Bob, Robert Stroud #594,” one page, both sides, 8 x 10.5, Alcatraz prison stationery to which he adds his full name and prison address, October 15, 1953. Handwritten letter to Fred E. Daw, his longtime friend and the president of the Chicago Bird Club, stating his displeasure with the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower and listing several ways in which America could improve. In part: “It has taken me a long time to get around to telling you why I am so deeply disappointed in the present administration and why it is to my way of thinking a more tragic failure than that of Hoover.”
Stroud proceeds to list topics that “should have been done at time of first message to Congress,” which include: “Break diplomatic relation with all totalitarian countries in world, including Argentina, Spain and Yugoslavia,” “Knock down all wages and prices by 40% to bring price in line with world market,” “Take government completely out of business and out of charity rackets, confine it strictly to actual functions of government and actual needs of situations,” “Reclassify all federal employees with the view of disposing of at least a million of them,” and “Announce to the world that our enemy is not communism per se but totalitarianism, and that we will consider any attempt to establish any form of totalitarian government anywhere in the world an act unfriendly to us and will act accordingly without further notice.” In fine condition.
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