sense. i'm sure there were letters that you went really? i didn't know he thought that. give me an example. >> one of the most interesting is the he wrote to then senator john kennedy who was asked to give an assessment of his book in draft form. my father gave a blunt assessment of the book that he compared two of the people that kennedy had chosen for the profiles. he said should be discarded from the book because they didn't fit the notion of courage. my father could be blunt even with the people he admire and was close to. another person he worked for was stevenson, the democratic nominee for the presidency. if you look at his letters and he told stevenson he has to be much sorter in his answers and