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TLS as a Massachusetts senator, signed “John Kennedy,” two pages, 8 x 10.25, United States Senate letterhead, May 9, 1953. Lengthy letter to Doria Juliano, a Ninth Grade Social Studies teacher at the Onteora Central School in Boiceville, New York, in full: “Your Ninth Grade Social Studies Class certainly asks a lot of questions, and I am really not able to answer all of them. I will answer your question on Tideland oil by saying that I do not agree with the bill passed by the House and Senate because I firmly believe that these offshore oil and gas resources belong to all of the people in all of the states and not just two, three, or four states. A synopsis of my speech on the Senate floor along these lines is attached.
I think it is too early to tell if the Eisenhower Administration has been successful or not. There is, however, an interesting document which I am enclosing which comes from the Research Division of the Democratic National Committee comparing the first hundred days, which you specifically mention, of the Roosevelt Administration with the Eisenhower Administration. As for economy and efficiency, I have done a good deal on that score, and I might mention the following:
1. S. 833, which I have co-sponsored, to establish a joint Committee on the Budget which could really find out specific places where cuts could be made in federal spending. Only yesterday I voted to report this bill favorably.
2. The Byrd Resolution, S. Con. Res. 8, which I also co-sponsored, to increase the control by the Congress on the rate of spending by the federal government agencies.
3. S. 1360, Air Mail Subsidy Separation Bill, introduced by myself and twenty-three other senators, both Republicans and Democrats, which would reform the present practice whereby the subsidized airlines are permitted to charge the Post Office $130,000,000 a year for only $60,000,000 of mail transportation services actually rendered. My bill alone would reduce the postal deficit by $70,000,000 a year.
I hope that while my answers do not cover all problems which you and your students have raised that they will at least be some specific indication of what I am trying to do in Washington.” Kennedy’s referenced enclosures are not included. In fine condition, with some light creasing to the bottom blank area of the second page.
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