LETTER TO MR. BILL D. MOYERS FROM GEORGE A. CARVER, JR.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000500030041-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: April 21, 1966
• Content Type: LETTER

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ZI April 1966
Mr. Bill D. Moyers
Special Assistant to the President
The White House
The attached clipping was enclosed in a letter from my parents
which arrived yesterday. You may have already seen it. If not, you
will find it most interesting and, perhaps, useful. This is your department
and not one in which I have any official. responsibilities, but in my private.
personal opinion James' action has a strong element of newsworthy drama;
his arguments are hard hitting, well phrased and persuasive; and his own
background and impeccable credentials as a liberal Democrat might
command the attention of at least some other liberal Democrats now
straying off the reservation.
I met Weldon James once in the fall of 1953 at a testimonial
dinner for a local (Louisville) sports writer where I was one of the speakers
(asked because of my activity on the Yale and Oxford crews). James came
up after the program, introduced himself, and chatted for a few minutes.
Our conversation was fairly inconsequential and not devoted to politics
but I remember sizing him up as an earnest, intelligent Stevensonian
Democrat of more or less conventional liberal views. (Here you are
getting the bias of a moderate, pragmatic Republican who in those days,
was an Eisenhower supporter.) James obviously has more substance
and intensity of conviction than I gave him credit for twelve and a half
years ago.
Sincerely yours,
ls/
George A. Carver, Jr.
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