Dear Sir,
Although you and I have many significant ideological differences, I have always somewhat admired you for your rather unusual ability to remain dignified in times of stress (overlooking your comment to Vidal on television in 1968). However, I am distressed to find some of your qualities sorely absent in the person of your sibling (I refer of course to little Jimmy). Not only that, but, and this may seem a rather picayune point because it is, I find the antithesis to your exquisite smile in his devious Iagolike grin. Please sir, should we be spared by an act of the Lord and should Jimmy be defeated in November, will you promise me that should that quaint little party of authoritarians ever decide to run him again for office, you will graciously and mercifully step in as a substitute? You see, you are the only conservative I have ever been able to stomach, whose only flaw is a dominating superego and a mind that never quite felt secure with freedom. Sincerely,
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