Correspondence to Senator Bob Dole Regarding Washington, District of Columbia Bicentennial Center Mural

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Correspondence to Senator Bob Dole Regarding Washington, District of Columbia Bicentennial Center Mural

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1974-01-25

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1974-01-25

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93rd (1973-1975)

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See all items with this valueAmerican Revolution Bicentennial, 1976

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Government Operations and Politics

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correspondence

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See all items with this valueDole, Robert J., 1923-2021

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eng

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https://dolearchivecollections.ku.edu/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=31&q=

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Collection 002, Box 234, Folder 4

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Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

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Robert J. Dole Senate Papers-Constituent Relations, 1969-1996

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(page 1)

(stamp)
SENATOR BOB DOLE
RECEIVED
JAN 25 1974
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510

Sen. Bob Dole
United States Senate
Washington D.C.

Honorable Sen. Dole,
Are you aware of this? Something needs to be done about it and you seem one who ought to make some noise. I don't like it plain + simple.

Sincerely
{redacted}
Vassar, Ks
66543

P.S. D.S.T. is about as stupid an answer to saving fuel as I can see. We milk 70 cows, feed them, all with lights and still need a flash light to get back to the house.


(page 2)
Editor's Page

WORST JOKE IN 200 YEARS

BY HOWARD FLIEGER

With varying degrees of originality, communities all across the nation are getting ready to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the United States in 1976.
In 1776, when the country was born, the population was 2.5 million.
Now it exceeds 210 million.
If you are one of those millions of American citizens, you have just been insulted.

The Bicentennial Center for the District of Columbia, the nation's capital, was dedicated on January 14 by the Mayor of Washington. A representative of the White House was there. So were other dignitaries.
Looking down on the occasion was a new mural, done for the Bicentennial office by an artist named H. H. Booker II. (underlined by hand and "who is he?" written next to name)
Among the personages depicted-
Karl Marx, the father of Communism.
Friedrich Engels, Marx's associate.
Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union.
Mao Tse-tung of the Chinese Communists.
For extra measure, the muralist included a caricature of President Nixon wearing a mustache and clad in the costume of a movie gangster. He sketched the President's daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, with an Afro hairdo. He included a portrait of Angela Davis.
This is Americana?
Where are Washington, Jefferson, Tom Paine, Ben Franklin and the Adams family?
Where are such symbols of American culture and uniqueness as Washington Irving, Mark Twain and Carl Sandburg? Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington and Thomas Hart Benton? Francis Scott Key and George M. Cohan? John Philip Sousa and Louis Armstrong? Samuel Gompers and Andrew Carnegie? Thomas A. Edison and Mary Bethune? Where are the pathfinders-Lewis and Clark, Charles Lindbergh and Neil Armstrong, to name a few?
The list is endless. If portraits are needed to dramatize two centuries, you can take your pick from within our own borders, including many immigrants from other lands.

Granted, the planning for the Bicentennial observance has been uneven, often halting and short of real achievement on a national scale. But hundreds of communities, many States and regions have pitched in with their own projects and are moving ahead to the anniversary with enthusiasm and pride.
Granted, too, there has been honest disagreement. One group, for example, feels that the basic aims of the American Revolution are being overlooked. But such things are legitimate dissent-which is the American way.
The mural in Washington is something else.
A member of the staff of this magazine asked an official of the District of Columbia Bicentennial Commission about the inclusion of the Communist figures. The explanation was that those people are a valid part of the American scene because "all were involved in some way with the United States over the past 200 years."
When asked what Marx, Engels, Stalin and Mao had to do with the U. S., the official, irritated, broke off the conversation.
The muralist explained to a reporter for "The Washington Star-News" that his employer told him to "make faces" on the walls, so he sketched those he considers interesting. He called it a "lot of fun" and seemed to regard the whole affair as a very clever joke.
Marx, Stalin and Mao as characters in an American panorama-this is a joke?
It is a coarse insult to the very word, a desecration of everything truly American from 1776 to today. It is high jinks of the lowest order, done in the poorest taste.
Those who had anything to do with it- whether through deliberate participation, irresponsibility, arrogance or plain ignorance- should hang their heads in shame.

(No part of this or any other page may be reproduced without written permission)

84 U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Jan. 28, 1974

(page 1)

(stamp)
SENATOR BOB DOLE
RECEIVED
JAN 25 1974
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510

Sen. Bob Dole
United States Senate
Washington D.C.

Honorable Sen. Dole,
Are you aware of this? Something needs to be done about it and you seem one who ought to make some noise. I don't like it plain + simple.

Sincerely
{redacted}
Vassar, Ks
66543

P.S. D.S.T. is about as stupid an answer to saving fuel as I can see. We milk 70 cows, feed them, all with lights and still need a flash light to get back to the house.


(page 2)
Editor's Page

WORST JOKE IN 200 YEARS

BY HOWARD FLIEGER

With varying degrees of originality, communities all across the nation are getting ready to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the United States in 1976.
In 1776, when the country was born, the population was 2.5 million.
Now it exceeds 210 million.
If you are one of those millions of American citizens, you have just been insulted.

The Bicentennial Center for the District of Columbia, the nation's capital, was dedicated on January 14 by the Mayor of Washington. A representative of the White House was there. So were other dignitaries.
Looking down on the occasion was a new mural, done for the Bicentennial office by an artist named H. H. Booker II. (underlined by hand and "who is he?" written next to name)
Among the personages depicted-
Karl Marx, the father of Communism.
Friedrich Engels, Marx's associate.
Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union.
Mao Tse-tung of the Chinese Communists.
For extra measure, the muralist included a caricature of President Nixon wearing a mustache and clad in the costume of a movie gangster. He sketched the President's daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, with an Afro hairdo. He included a portrait of Angela Davis.
This is Americana?
Where are Washington, Jefferson, Tom Paine, Ben Franklin and the Adams family?
Where are such symbols of American culture and uniqueness as Washington Irving, Mark Twain and Carl Sandburg? Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington and Thomas Hart Benton? Francis Scott Key and George M. Cohan? John Philip Sousa and Louis Armstrong? Samuel Gompers and Andrew Carnegie? Thomas A. Edison and Mary Bethune? Where are the pathfinders-Lewis and Clark, Charles Lindbergh and Neil Armstrong, to name a few?
The list is endless. If portraits are needed to dramatize two centuries, you can take your pick from within our own borders, including many immigrants from other lands.

Granted, the planning for the Bicentennial observance has been uneven, often halting and short of real achievement on a national scale. But hundreds of communities, many States and regions have pitched in with their own projects and are moving ahead to the anniversary with enthusiasm and pride.
Granted, too, there has been honest disagreement. One group, for example, feels that the basic aims of the American Revolution are being overlooked. But such things are legitimate dissent-which is the American way.
The mural in Washington is something else.
A member of the staff of this magazine asked an official of the District of Columbia Bicentennial Commission about the inclusion of the Communist figures. The explanation was that those people are a valid part of the American scene because "all were involved in some way with the United States over the past 200 years."
When asked what Marx, Engels, Stalin and Mao had to do with the U. S., the official, irritated, broke off the conversation.
The muralist explained to a reporter for "The Washington Star-News" that his employer told him to "make faces" on the walls, so he sketched those he considers interesting. He called it a "lot of fun" and seemed to regard the whole affair as a very clever joke.
Marx, Stalin and Mao as characters in an American panorama-this is a joke?
It is a coarse insult to the very word, a desecration of everything truly American from 1776 to today. It is high jinks of the lowest order, done in the poorest taste.
Those who had anything to do with it- whether through deliberate participation, irresponsibility, arrogance or plain ignorance- should hang their heads in shame.

(No part of this or any other page may be reproduced without written permission)

84 U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Jan. 28, 1974

(page 1)

(stamp)
SENATOR BOB DOLE
RECEIVED
JAN 25 1974
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510

Sen. Bob Dole
United States Senate
Washington D.C.

Honorable Sen. Dole,
Are you aware of this? Something needs to be done about it and you seem one who ought to make some noise. I don't like it plain + simple.

Sincerely
{redacted}
Vassar, Ks
66543

P.S. D.S.T. is about as stupid an answer to saving fuel as I can see. We milk 70 cows, feed them, all with lights and still need a flash light to get back to the house.


(page 2)
Editor's Page

WORST JOKE IN 200 YEARS

BY HOWARD FLIEGER

With varying degrees of originality, communities all across the nation are getting ready to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the United States in 1976.
In 1776, when the country was born, the population was 2.5 million.
Now it exceeds 210 million.
If you are one of those millions of American citizens, you have just been insulted.

The Bicentennial Center for the District of Columbia, the nation's capital, was dedicated on January 14 by the Mayor of Washington. A representative of the White House was there. So were other dignitaries.
Looking down on the occasion was a new mural, done for the Bicentennial office by an artist named H. H. Booker II. (underlined by hand and "who is he?" written next to name)
Among the personages depicted-
Karl Marx, the father of Communism.
Friedrich Engels, Marx's associate.
Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union.
Mao Tse-tung of the Chinese Communists.
For extra measure, the muralist included a caricature of President Nixon wearing a mustache and clad in the costume of a movie gangster. He sketched the President's daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, with an Afro hairdo. He included a portrait of Angela Davis.
This is Americana?
Where are Washington, Jefferson, Tom Paine, Ben Franklin and the Adams family?
Where are such symbols of American culture and uniqueness as Washington Irving, Mark Twain and Carl Sandburg? Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington and Thomas Hart Benton? Francis Scott Key and George M. Cohan? John Philip Sousa and Louis Armstrong? Samuel Gompers and Andrew Carnegie? Thomas A. Edison and Mary Bethune? Where are the pathfinders-Lewis and Clark, Charles Lindbergh and Neil Armstrong, to name a few?
The list is endless. If portraits are needed to dramatize two centuries, you can take your pick from within our own borders, including many immigrants from other lands.

Granted, the planning for the Bicentennial observance has been uneven, often halting and short of real achievement on a national scale. But hundreds of communities, many States and regions have pitched in with their own projects and are moving ahead to the anniversary with enthusiasm and pride.
Granted, too, there has been honest disagreement. One group, for example, feels that the basic aims of the American Revolution are being overlooked. But such things are legitimate dissent-which is the American way.
The mural in Washington is something else.
A member of the staff of this magazine asked an official of the District of Columbia Bicentennial Commission about the inclusion of the Communist figures. The explanation was that those people are a valid part of the American scene because "all were involved in some way with the United States over the past 200 years."
When asked what Marx, Engels, Stalin and Mao had to do with the U. S., the official, irritated, broke off the conversation.
The muralist explained to a reporter for "The Washington Star-News" that his employer told him to "make faces" on the walls, so he sketched those he considers interesting. He called it a "lot of fun" and seemed to regard the whole affair as a very clever joke.
Marx, Stalin and Mao as characters in an American panorama-this is a joke?
It is a coarse insult to the very word, a desecration of everything truly American from 1776 to today. It is high jinks of the lowest order, done in the poorest taste.
Those who had anything to do with it- whether through deliberate participation, irresponsibility, arrogance or plain ignorance- should hang their heads in shame.

(No part of this or any other page may be reproduced without written permission)

84 U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Jan. 28, 1974

(page 1)

(stamp)
SENATOR BOB DOLE
RECEIVED
JAN 25 1974
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510

Sen. Bob Dole
United States Senate
Washington D.C.

Honorable Sen. Dole,
Are you aware of this? Something needs to be done about it and you seem one who ought to make some noise. I don't like it plain + simple.

Sincerely
{redacted}
Vassar, Ks
66543

P.S. D.S.T. is about as stupid an answer to saving fuel as I can see. We milk 70 cows, feed them, all with lights and still need a flash light to get back to the house.


(page 2)
Editor's Page

WORST JOKE IN 200 YEARS

BY HOWARD FLIEGER

With varying degrees of originality, communities all across the nation are getting ready to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the United States in 1976.
In 1776, when the country was born, the population was 2.5 million.
Now it exceeds 210 million.
If you are one of those millions of American citizens, you have just been insulted.

The Bicentennial Center for the District of Columbia, the nation's capital, was dedicated on January 14 by the Mayor of Washington. A representative of the White House was there. So were other dignitaries.
Looking down on the occasion was a new mural, done for the Bicentennial office by an artist named H. H. Booker II. (underlined by hand and "who is he?" written next to name)
Among the personages depicted-
Karl Marx, the father of Communism.
Friedrich Engels, Marx's associate.
Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union.
Mao Tse-tung of the Chinese Communists.
For extra measure, the muralist included a caricature of President Nixon wearing a mustache and clad in the costume of a movie gangster. He sketched the President's daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, with an Afro hairdo. He included a portrait of Angela Davis.
This is Americana?
Where are Washington, Jefferson, Tom Paine, Ben Franklin and the Adams family?
Where are such symbols of American culture and uniqueness as Washington Irving, Mark Twain and Carl Sandburg? Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington and Thomas Hart Benton? Francis Scott Key and George M. Cohan? John Philip Sousa and Louis Armstrong? Samuel Gompers and Andrew Carnegie? Thomas A. Edison and Mary Bethune? Where are the pathfinders-Lewis and Clark, Charles Lindbergh and Neil Armstrong, to name a few?
The list is endless. If portraits are needed to dramatize two centuries, you can take your pick from within our own borders, including many immigrants from other lands.

Granted, the planning for the Bicentennial observance has been uneven, often halting and short of real achievement on a national scale. But hundreds of communities, many States and regions have pitched in with their own projects and are moving ahead to the anniversary with enthusiasm and pride.
Granted, too, there has been honest disagreement. One group, for example, feels that the basic aims of the American Revolution are being overlooked. But such things are legitimate dissent-which is the American way.
The mural in Washington is something else.
A member of the staff of this magazine asked an official of the District of Columbia Bicentennial Commission about the inclusion of the Communist figures. The explanation was that those people are a valid part of the American scene because "all were involved in some way with the United States over the past 200 years."
When asked what Marx, Engels, Stalin and Mao had to do with the U. S., the official, irritated, broke off the conversation.
The muralist explained to a reporter for "The Washington Star-News" that his employer told him to "make faces" on the walls, so he sketched those he considers interesting. He called it a "lot of fun" and seemed to regard the whole affair as a very clever joke.
Marx, Stalin and Mao as characters in an American panorama-this is a joke?
It is a coarse insult to the very word, a desecration of everything truly American from 1776 to today. It is high jinks of the lowest order, done in the poorest taste.
Those who had anything to do with it- whether through deliberate participation, irresponsibility, arrogance or plain ignorance- should hang their heads in shame.

(No part of this or any other page may be reproduced without written permission)

84 U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Jan. 28, 1974