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This was the day the Women for Peace chose to make their annual visit to Sacramento to protest the war in Vietnam. They marched on the capital this morning, entered through the south doors and went to visit the governor. Governor Reagan, who had a first indicated he

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might not meet with him, said that he would meet with them and did. The group then left the governor's office, half of them going to visit state Director of Finance Gordon Smith, and the other half saw Senator George Miller Jr of Contra Costa County. Senator Miller

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is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. He told the ladies that he agreed with them that the money spent on the Vietnam War could be put to more productive and constructive uses after a luncheon in which they honored legislators whom they consider to have been sympathetic

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to their point of view on Vietnam. The ladies then visited their local representatives to urge the California Legislature to pass a resolution asking Congress for a complete investigation into the war in Vietnam. Similar resolutions have already been passed by the Colorado and Arkansas legislatures rollin post

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KP ex news in Sacramento. Okay, that's what I'm complaining we've brought you a folio off. Well, there's a letter in it for you. Way. Hope that we'll receive a reply. We've come with a white paper on economics and copies of resolutions from state legislatures of Colorado

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and Arkansas in which they memorialized Congress on the war in Vietnam. And we're going to We're hoping that you will take the leadership here and have such a resolution passed in this state. Well, I read this. I won't do it now. Sure. Here and keep you

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waiting. Although I had an advertisement the other day in an offer of a free course and speed reading. But I haven't been ableto have the time to take it up yet. I I just want you to know I agree with your right to express yourself and

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certainly would I'm misquoting Voltaire. But a sense of the messages that defend to the death your right to do that I must state as you probably already are aware I am not an agreement with the purpose or the goal, Not in the sense. But I think

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anyone is in disagreement with the idea that desirability of peace I just unfortunately for this particular confrontation believed that unlike a family quarrel, it doesn't take two to start a war. And I've often thought that perhaps there could be weak peace in the world if more

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women we're running affairs, but they'd have to be running them on both sides, not just one.