STEPHEN M. YOUNG - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/15/1973 - HFSID 83825

STEPHEN M. YOUNG. TLS: "Stephen M. Young" as U.S. Senator (retired), 1p, 8x10½. No place, 1973 January 15. On United States Senate letterhead to Mr. Paul J. Friscat, Canton, Ohio. In full: "Most of my newsletters, 'Straight from Washington,' which I wrote and mailed regularly during 12 years in the Senate, and most reprints of Senate speeches I have made have been turned over to the Western reserve Historical Society in Cleveland of which Kermit Pike is librarian. Mr. Pike has many cartons of surplus newsletters and reprints of Senate speeches. I have a few here in my office and I take pleasure in sending some of these to you. You mentioned I.F. Stone. He is a friend of mine. If I have a duplicate of any of his writings, I shall send them along. If I am in Canton this year to speak at a Democratic meeting, I hope to meet up with you personally." Enclosures not present. As he has noted, Young was retired from his political career at the time of this letter, having served in the U.S. Senate from 1959-1971. STEPHEN MARVIN YOUNG (1889-1984) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1959-1971. Young, a veteran of both WWI and WWII, had previously served in the Ohio state House of Representatives (1913-1917) and was a U.S. Representative from Ohio in 1933-1937, 1941-1943 and 1949-1951. An unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1968, Young had also run unsuccessfully for Ohio state Attorney General (1922, 1956) and Governor of Ohio (1930, 1936). I.F. "IZZY" STONE (1907-1989) was a Washington journalist who published "I.F. Stone Weekly" from 1953 until failing health forced him to close the paper in 1968 (at that time, the paper had a circulation of 70,000 worldwide and its subscribers had included such notables as Albert Einstein). Born Isidor Feinstein, Stone, who was described in a Ralph Nader tribute as a "modern day Tom Paine - as independent and incorruptible as they come -- covered Washington, D.C. politics, taking on Senator Joseph McCarthy and weighing in on such issues as the Warren Report. Lightly creased. Fine condition.