COMMENT ⊗   VALID 00002 PAGES
C REC  PAGE   DESCRIPTION
C00001 00001
C00002 00002	%business letter outline to use with buslet.tex macros
C00006 ENDMK
C⊗;
%business letter outline to use with buslet.tex macros
\input buslet[1,ra]
\jmclet

\vskip 30pt
	
\address 
Professor S.M. Lipset             
Hoover Institution                     
Stanford University           
Stanford, CA 94043                        
\body
Dear Marty:

I think you missed my point about Grenada or maybe were distracted from  
answering it.                                                    

It seems that we agreed that Carter would have gained credit for taking Grenada
evev if he had agonized on TV about his decision to do so.  Therefore, the credit
Reagan gained for doing so should be considered as owing to his policy as well
as to his personality or image.

When it turns out that the polls show the public as not agreeing with Reagan on 
what are presumed to be related issues but nevertheless praising his action, this
means to me that not all the issues have been identified and made a subject of
polling.  After all, the issues are identified by politicians, pollsters, 
journalists and academics.  This identifcation isn't automatic and may miss some
that are important to the public or part of it.

For example, there could be (or perhaps there was) a series of poll questions like
the following:

1.  Has the U.S. let itself be pushed around too much by foreign countries?

2.  Is this (very important, important, not very important, unimportant)?

3.  Which party (which candidate) is more likely to resist the U.S. being pushed
around?

4.  Is the U.S. (too patient, about right, too impatient) when our people are 
threatened or attacked in foreign countries?

Before this could be discussed as an issue, it would need a name, e.g. ``national
dignity'' or if you want to denigrate it ``jingoism''.

\closing
Sincerely,  
John McCarthy    
Professor of Computer Science
\annotations
JMC/ra 
%\smallskip
%Enclosure
%\smallskip
%cc: Matthew Kahn
%\smallskip
%\ps
%P.S.: whatever you wish to say here

\endletter

\makelabel
\end