6 Oeteber 1960

Professor J. Leonard Bates
Department of History
University of Illinois
Urbana, Tilincis

Dear lens

When you called last summer the chairman of our
devartment had scheduled an interview with Alvin Fahrner,
of Goker College, who subsequently accepted the position
that was vacanh. He is one of Green's students whom you
may recall, We are steadijy enlarging the devartaent and
if Ralph Stone is interested he siouid get in his application.
I understand that some of our history staff may be
on the track of jobs elsewhere.

I have taken a very active interest in the ¢ampaigns
in the state thie yeer. For awhile i helped with the chores
in Terry Sanford's state headquarters and have been with
him at geveral political rallies in the eastern part of the
statee After the racists were given a good drubbing in June,
they turned their ire against Sanford and Kennedy. And now
we have the religious bicotsa, racists, states richtersy,
mavericks, veactionariem and the like all in the Nixone
Gavin camp. They are creating a great Geal of noise ané
seem to have considerable funds from outside sourecése I
cannot imarine, however, how they can carry the state. [t
ie certainly a sordid crowd to have to contend withs

Kennedy figuratively mopped up thge,ground with Nixon
in that first debate---- but you know/whimsical and
irrational some people can be}; they cannot appreciate the
weicht of superior intelligence and charactere i irust
you and your colleagues are backing Siliington in the
effort to unseat Mundt the reactionary.s

Let us hear from youe And if you plan to pe in New
York during December we can count on a visit together. Lala
and I plan to go up on Christmas aight for a weeks stays

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