Letter to Senator Bob Dole from Jane Denton of the National League of Families Regarding Letter Sent to President Nixon

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Title (Dublin Core): Letter to Senator Bob Dole from Jane Denton of the National League of Families Regarding Letter Sent to President Nixon
Date (Dublin Core): 1971-11
Date Created (Dublin Core): 1971-11
Congress (Dublin Core): 92nd (1971-1973)
Topics (Dublin Core): See all items with this value Vietnam War, 1961-1975; See all items with this value Families of prisoners of war
Policy Area (Curation): Armed Forces and National Security
Creator (Dublin Core): Dole, Robert J., 1923-2021; National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia
Record Type (Dublin Core): correspondence
Names (Dublin Core): See all items with this value Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
Rights (Dublin Core): http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Collection Finding Aid (Dublin Core): https://dolearchivecollections.ku.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=31&q=
Physical Location (Dublin Core): Collection 002, Box 293, Folder 22
Institution (Dublin Core): Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Archival Collection (Dublin Core): Robert J. Dole Senate Papers-Constituent Relations, 1969-1996
Full Text (Extract Text): November 10, 1971

(handwritten) POW

Mrs. Jane M. Denton
National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia
P. O. Box 4116
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23454

Dear Mrs. Denton:

I very much appreciate receiving a copy of your letter to the President.

As you know, the President will make an announce- ment on Monday, November 15. While I have no knowledge of what he will say, I do know that the return of American prisoners and American's missing in action is of the highest priority with the President.

If I should obtain any information which would be of interest, will certainly forward it to you.

Sincerely yours,
BOB DOLE
U. S. Senate

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NATIONAL LEAGUE OF FAMILIES OF AMERICAN PRISONERS AND MISSING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Virginia Beach, VIRGINIA CHAPTER

P. O. BOX 4116
VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA 23454

PHONE: 425-6441
425-6442

November 9, 1971

The Honorable Robert Dole
Senate Office Building
Washington, D. C. 20510

Dear Senator Dole:
Enclosed is a copy of a letter to President Nixon from a group of wives of prisoners of war and men missing in action. We want you to be informed of our feelings as we have expressed them to the President.

Please use your influence to bring about an end to the war, a return of prisoners and an accounting of the missing.

Sincerely,
(handwritten) Jane M. Denton
Jane M. Denton

Encl.

NATIONAL LEAGUE OF FAMILIES OF AMERICAN PRISONERS AND MISSING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Virginia Beach, VIRGINIA CHAPTER

P. O. BOX 4116
VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA 23454

PHONE: 425-6441
425-6442

November 9, 1971

President Richard M. Nixon
The White House
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. President,
As our country is apparently reaching the final stages of active participation in the Vietnam war, we, the wives of prisoners of war and men missing in action, wait with anticipation for word of a settlement for their release. Our hopes are combined with a deep anxiety that there is no provision for these men in the withdrawal plans. Our fears are prompted in large part by statements from Republican senators that a residual force of forty or fifty thousand will remain in Vietnam in the event that there is no settlement of the prisoner of war issue. If this is indeed your intention, we urge you instead to offer in your November 15 address to negotiate now with the withdrawal of all your remaining forces in return for all our men held in Indo China.

As plans are made for the return of thousands of men from Vietnam by Christmas, surely the prisoners of war, who have served this cause the longest of all, are deserving of your greatest efforts on their behalf.

If we, the families who have supported the administration throughout this long struggle, are forced in the

NATIONAL LEAGUE OF FAMILIES OF AMERICAN PRISONERS AND MISSING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Virginia Beach, VIRGINIA CHAPTER

P. O. BOX 4116
VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA 23454

PHONE: 425-6441
425-6442

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coming year to a choice between traditional non-political activity or our husbands' lives, this will be our deepest personal tragedy.

Sincerely yours,
(the following signatures are handwritten)
Mrs. Edwin a. Shuman III wife of Col. Edwin A. Shuman III P.O. W. March 17, 1965
Mrs. Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr. (wife of Captain Jeremiah Andrew Denton POW July 18, 1965)
Mrs. Eugene B. McDaniel (wife of Cdr. Eugene B. McDaniel, POW, May 19, 1967
Mrs. S.E. Keller (Captain S.E. Killer, MIA, April 21, 1966)
Mrs. Allen C. Brady (Cdr A.C. Brady, Pra, Jan 19, 1967)
Mrs. John H. Fellowes (wife of. Com. John H. Fellowes POW 8/27/66
Mrs. James A. Mulligan Jr. (Wife of Capt. J.A. Mulligan Jr. POW Mar. 20, 1966!!)
Mrs Alan Ashall (Wife of Lt. Alan F. Ashal M.I.A. Aug. 29, 1968)
Mrs. Michael D. Christian (wife of Navy Lt M.D. Christian) POW April 24, 1967
Mrs. Williams Tskudy (wife of Fedr. W.M. Tskudy ) POW July 18, 1965

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