Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
202 Fifty-Sixth Street West
New York 19, N. Y.
December 18, 1958
Dear Senator Kennedy:
If my comment is not true, I will gladly so state. I was told that your father said openly
he would spend any money to make his son the first Catholic President of this country, and many
people as I travel about tell me of money spent by hin [him] in your behalf. This seems
commonly accepted as a fact.
Building an organization is permissable [permissible] but giving too lavishly may seem
to indicate a desire to influence through money.
Very sincerely yours,
Eleanor Roosevelt
