ALAN CRANSTON - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 05/15/1973 - HFSID 79201

ALAN CRANSTON
In full support of its funding, he writes positively of the Riverside Unified School District
Typed Letter signed: "Alan Cranston" as Senate Majority Whip, 1p, 8½x11. On personal Senate letterhead. Washington, D.C., 1973 May 15. To Dr. Herman Goldberg, Director of the Office of Emergency School Aid. In full: "As you know, the Riverside Unified School District, of Riverside, California, has filed an application for assistance under the Emergency School Aid Act. The proposal covers both public and non-public school children. I have reviewed the Riverside application, and I am greatly impressed by both the scope of the proposal and the very evident comprehensive approach it represents. Riverside has, over the years, demonstrated a continuing commitment to the desegration of its schools. I am very hopeful that the Office of the Education will approve their plans to move even further toward total school integration. With best regards". Alan Cranston (1914-2000) served as Democratic Senator from California from 1969-1993. From 1977-1991, he was the Democratic Whip. From 1936-1938, he was a foreign correspondent for International News Service (now UPI). He attributed much of the American public's misperceptions of Nazism to a version of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Having read the original German version, Cranston drafted a word-for-word translation of the book, which was published. His version at a cover price of 10-cents, sold over 500,000 copies (it included Cranston's comments against Nazism). Hitler successfully sued him for copyright infringement and unauthorized revision. Cranston accepted $1 million in contributions from constituent, Charles H. Keating, Jr., the head of the Lincoln Federal Savings and Loan Association. He was one of the "Keating Five" and the only one to receive a formal reprimand by the Select Committee on Ethics in 1991 for "improper conduct". Normal mailing folds. Fine condition.