![]() Letters from citizens also convey ideas and observations that alert you to conditions, issues, and urgencies at hand and occasionally provide you with an opportunity to publically discuss the point raised by an ordinary citizen who penned such a letter. ![]() the ten letters from citizens you read each evening). For presidents, letters help, as you have said, escape “the bubble” (e.g. For the citizens, it is an opportunity to circumvent the barriers presented by the media and governmental institutions to directly access the White House. He did not.Ĭitizen correspondence is important both for you as President and them. I raised this issue early in your first term with the Director of the Office of Presidential Correspondence, Mike Kelleher, who said there was no specific policy regarding responses, but that he would get back to me after the Office of Presidential Correspondence considered the matter. One of these letters asked you about the White House’s policies regarding letters it receives. ![]()
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