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Momminsmpiohdop your copy ortm' Miami
OHarald} sad as: phcemny dippod breakfast oorreo agate across
an editorial about 0. .

Suppooo further. that this editorial who only one or a series,
and that it .gavo to its. rosdsrl s omieyeiy mu'pihmg; you.

lhot would you do? I think you'd fight book, witvcry

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- m at your (Ii-spool]... Rats out I'm going tormentonhht.

It my loan tooling for no, one an to fight hook at that giant
o: panic infatuation, but David an M1 as ho Goliath.
so had Buy a sling shot and -- 1pm to. mun, mfg-nth. For
a 10". now an liani hams has pioturod no to its m so
being opposed to t); sonstouctioa or s turnpike in truth
is tho: I fought fordtho humping: in the legislative seni or 1953
which enacted the hob-tan turnpike bill, and 1 who tau-fob mi
longth turnpike in the legislative session of 1955.

The liani Hamid, injan editoriu. of larch 1h, stated that in
1953 I indicated w ODDOBition coTche turnpike "at the outset. The
truthis that I introduced the turnpike bill in 1953, and yes" Joined
in doing to by Dodo Cmty'a representatives, Dante Moll, now your
oongrom, Robert Floyd, now your circuit Judge, and George Okoll.
were they opposed to the turnpike?

The Mai Herald went on to any that I indicated In opposition to
thetthmpiko by appointing as Roads Committee chairman the "president
or an organization which had gone on record against any turnpike."

The truth is that the'Roads Omittee chairman was another or those

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t igtrodueed the turnpi 1311,11: 1953. The truth is that he and
., I together, during the legislative session or 1953, appeared before

' that very organizgtion end pleaded tor theirtupport for the turnpike.
. The Miami ergld stated that the turnpike pm me "bottled up"

in the mien committee of 1953 which 1 appointed. The truth is the
,the turnpike bill took 25 days to be passed by} the Senate and only 9

days to be ~paused by the House, or which I was Speaker. Does tit:

'- sound as though it was bottled up?
The llami herald eteted thit 1 appointed a tux-ppm toe he

chairman or the Rules Conitho. at statement is correct. "net the

inference that I appointed him as Rules Col-hittee chair-an heomae he

opposed the tumpike is false. ie truth is that mated: bills

must be considered by the males Comittee or the House, and {appointed

its chairman, not because of his views on any particular legislation.
but because he was qualified to do his Job. The truth in that. the

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turnpike bill yea not bottled up, union is proof that aw sailection of

a chairman was good}. \
The truth is that if I, as Speaker of the House, had wanted to

kill the turnpike bill in .1953. it would have been killed. Without

my support it could not have been phased.
nae truth is that every vote that I cast on the turnpike tme
identical with the votes of the Dede And around Counties delegations.

A What better proof or my support for the turnpike could possibly be
offered?




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-her, t-nat in:'-a editorial --as o:ny one of to its readers a comr.legely false pictur ? I think you'd fj.ght Deck, with every poen1. Test's what l'm going to do--ton oolish for pie, ore man to fight back et ttiora, but David ws/s small as he stood be ng shot and -I have ten nilnutes arid th he Kinmi Her3ld has pictures me to jtc r the constreetion of a turnpike in Florid ur the turnpike in the legir.lative serG bob-tal] turnpike -elll, and 1 fought To n the 3eg5nlntive Geosion or 1955. rald, inl.o cultorial OiMerch 11., state my onposjtion to the turnelke "at the ou

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