Dear Barbara: It is always refreshing to hear from you, and it doesn't do me a bit of harm personally to have now and then a nod of approval from you on some particular talk or speech. Particularly I appreciate your kind words about the Baylor speech.1 I worked over it what seemed like endless hours, and at the end I was afraid I had tried to jam too much into too short a period of time.
If there is any way you can tell me how to convince people that our entire domestic life is based upon what we do in the foreign field and that, therefore, the current foreign aid bill is an absolute necessity and absolute minimum, I would welcome your thoughts. I have talked--endlessly it seems to me--on the subject--and you know the mediocre success I have had, even with some of the Republican members of the Congress.2
As one of your part time projects, why don't you put your idea for a radio serial into concrete form and see if you can't sell it commercially?3
Thank you for writing and for giving me the chance to reply--at least in part--to the many interesting ideas I find in your letter.
With warm regard to you and Mr. Gunderson, Sincerely
