When you wrote to the White House or the State Department during the 1950s, the reply you got was surprisingly personalized. Whether asking for help or offering advice on matters of Middle East politics or security, letters from citrus growers, rabbis, eager Oberlin students, Yale professors and random Minnesotans were all unfailingly met with the same tone of … Continue reading (W)Archives: Useful Dictators, 1957 and 2015