Apparently, we are writing back and forth about Anne Morrow Lindberg - I think my mother was reading her - I wonder what I said about her. I have no memory of it whatsoever. His parents come to visit in Virginia - he is at Fort Lee. This is Feb. of 1963. In politics: "find an account of Bobby's report before congress, concerning the new aid to education bills (all about our need for a youth corps to help alleviate the problem of our goaless generation of degenerative young people). Must be Bobby Kennedy. A few years later, I am working for Bobby in the presidential primaries. Then he won California.

Sept. 2, 1962. Nothing new, but something I should have paid attention to - and never knew to do so until it was too late. "you know I'd rather have the more positive...more favorable course." Much, much later in life, I said to myself, "self" (watching too much Emeril) - don't go out with anybody who didn't have a happy childhood. You musta learned by now, you can't make them happy. Still and all, there's always been something about the more difficult guys - and NONE of them had happy childhoods. They ALL hated Christmas. And when I meet a naturally cheery fella? Doesn't do anything for me. But he did, long ago. And, as I said, I don't really regret my life. I would rather have done the things I've done and learned the things I've learned, and if I'd stayed, I would have left sooner or later, because, as I think I've said ad nauseum, I didn't know how to stay.

Just noticed at the top of the Union Station stationery that there is a USO Lounge - this is USO/Union Station stationery. I never knew there was a USO in the train station, but then, I was never in the army. Searching this letter for any pertinent cultural material, but for the first time, I find almost nothing to talk about - just regular army stuff. KP, don't walk on the grass, all that good stuff. One interesting sidelight - apparently, in 1962 in the army, you aren't supposed to rat out anybody for stealing your stuff, "quite a change from C.C., where pimpiness is encouraged and even rewarded." Good point.