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May Tangen Christmas Letters, 1961-1974
1972-12-26 May Tangen to President Richard Milhous Nixon
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72? Dec. 26. (I put in this carbon for you after I started letter.) To the President The White House Washington, D, C. Dear Mr. Nixon: Thank God for the bombing halt that is making headlines in this morning's paper. May it continue on and on, even though the signing of the cease-fire is not evident in the immediate future to us who are furnishing the means for the destruction. Concerning the means of the destruction: We have through the years been urged to pray for peace, but since God has had no hand in perpetrating the war, it is better that I pray to those who are responsible - to our government. As a citizen I am the government too, and I answer my own prayer by choking off the funds I contribute to the Vietnamese war effort by refusing to pay the Federal tax portion (which is earmarked for war funds) of my telephone bill. I plan to do the same to the portion of my income tax used for war efforts. in today's mailing I am sending to United Methodist Committee on Relief the $10.00 monthly allottment I have been taxing myself to aid the refugees Vietnamese) whose homes, means of living, and even lives I have been destroying through these years. Sincerely for peace, May Tangen May Tangen
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72? Dec. 26. (I put in this carbon for you after I started letter.) To the President The White House Washington, D, C. Dear Mr. Nixon: Thank God for the bombing halt that is making headlines in this morning's paper. May it continue on and on, even though the signing of the cease-fire is not evident in the immediate future to us who are furnishing the means for the destruction. Concerning the means of the destruction: We have through the years been urged to pray for peace, but since God has had no hand in perpetrating the war, it is better that I pray to those who are responsible - to our government. As a citizen I am the government too, and I answer my own prayer by choking off the funds I contribute to the Vietnamese war effort by refusing to pay the Federal tax portion (which is earmarked for war funds) of my telephone bill. I plan to do the same to the portion of my income tax used for war efforts. in today's mailing I am sending to United Methodist Committee on Relief the $10.00 monthly allottment I have been taxing myself to aid the refugees Vietnamese) whose homes, means of living, and even lives I have been destroying through these years. Sincerely for peace, May Tangen May Tangen
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