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30 October 1973

Whitney, Karen Lee, fl. 1973

Typed letter signed

Title: to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead

One letter from Karen Lee Whitney to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead dated October 30, 1973. Whitney supports the impeachment of President Nixon and writes, "I have never written to Congress before, and I am only doing so now out of complete outrage, as an expression of creative anger, and an alternative to breaking something in my own house."

GLC09613.02.1049

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