Letter sent to President Richard Nixon by Leslie Brooks

LESLIE BROOKS & ASSOCIATES, Inc. Specializing in Oil and Gas Industry Market Research /LTBA 2126 East Fifteenth Street Phone (918) 932-3261 Post Office Box 4429 Tulsa Oklahoma 74104 January 20, 1970 Hon. Richard Nixon President, United States of America White House Washington, D. C. 20500 HD Mr. President, the Republican party keeps writing me for contributions to help elect a Republic Congress, but your actions make me wonder if there is any use. The latest is your reported endorsement of a newly introduced postal reform bill H.R. 15430 which would aid in putting all post office workers under compulsory unionism. If the ultimate of the loss of freedom to join or not join a union is obtained neither the presidency nor congress elected by the people will have any say SO. Feudal lords, called Labor Union Leaders, will have the power and we the people including the workers forced to be union members will be caught in the cross fire as Unions fight among themselves. Your endorsement conflicts with your recent executive order along the line of John F. Kennedy's which forbid compulsory Unionism. So it makes some of us in the boon docks wonder whether you stand for principle or for expendiency. Also, the Republican Party platform, which you endorsed, promised freedom of choice to join or not join a union, if I remember correctly. What are we, who I think you believe are the silent majority, to think? Are we getting anywhere in supporting the Republican party and its candidates in an effort to conserve the Constitution and save America. Leslie Brooks LEB/vt CC: Page Belcher Henry Bellmon Market, Image, Opinion, Product, Feasibility Merger Acquisition, and Advertising Pretesting Research Studies MEMBERS: AMERICAN MARKETING ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION. ESTABLISHED 1940 INTERVIEWING ORGANIZATION COVERING 42 STATES AND CANADA. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library