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Martinez, California Dear Mr President, in margin: illegible 1/27/08 pp illegible I wish you another of your great New
Years, of great works, - joining the oceans, controlling putting to right use water ways and landways, forests, deserts, gardens,
mines; overcoming obstacles like a glacier, serene amid the maddest maelstroms of every sort the people are swirling in, going
straight ahead in the strength of God's simple unchangeable foundational righteousness like Sequoias going to the sky. Your
work Mr President often brings to mind a walk with Emerson in the Mariposa woods where we camped. He quoted the scripture
There were giants in those days. Your works show that there are giants in these days also. All good citizens here