Dear Editor

...Kellen isn't quite sure just where he stands on Stevenson...

...THEODORE K. QUINN HAMILTON In his review of John ? Miller's Alexander Hamilton ("Hamilton: Impulse and Paradox," NL, March 7) ? E. Ayres rightly credits Hamilton with "genius" in the field of economics...

...What is most shocking is the reviewer's opening paragraph in which he says that every schoolchild knows that Hamilton "allowed himself to become involved in a squalid duel in which he was killed...

...smears against his political opponents and even his current displays of magnanimity, so foreign to his nature...

...Kellen makes a point of the lack of administrative experience in certain other candidates...

...Confessing that Nixon is the very last among my choices for the Presidency, I nevertheless do not "foam at the mouth, stammer, roll [my] eyes and have nothing really relevent to say" when Nixon's name is brought up, but I can understand and even justify reactions like that...

...Largo, Fla...

...It is true that Hamilton was not as cautious as, say, Benjamin Franklin, in his extra-marital escapade, but the reviewer surely knows what Jefferson himself knew, that Hamilton was blameless of the political accusations against him in the affair of the "injured" husband...

...My objections go quite beyond Nixon's earlier, cruel Communistic THE NEW LEADER welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...

...The American Presidency is the greatest administrative office in the world, and we are going to be asked to place in it a young politician who never had a single day's real administrative experience in his life...

...Indeed, there may be nothing wrong with being an opportunist, but we hardly need Nixon's brand of opportunism in the office once occupied by Lincoln...

...DEAR EDITOR DEMOCRATIC PARADE I was intrigued by Konrad Kellen's suggestion ("Democratic Party Parade," NL, March 7) that Senator Hubert Humphrey isn't qualified to be President because he doesn't "look like" one...

...Is the verdict of history on this handsome man unjust —or is Kellen off the mark not only about his "look like" standard, but in assessing Senator Humphrey, contrary to the opinion of the great majority of the Washington press corps, as a "lightweight...

...This schoolchild knows the opposite, i.e., this "squalid duel" was the tragic culmination of Hamilton's honorable political life—his successful efforts, unparalleled in our history, to bar a dishonest man from high public office, the Presidency and the Governorship of New York State, and his work to support Jefferson, his deadly political enemy, for the Presidency...

...Summoning up remembrance of things past, I find that the President most qualified for the post was Warren Gamaliel Harding...

...He has nothing to say about the complete lack of this qualification in Nixon...

...Washington Crossing, Pa...

...I suggest his ticket has some merit and would have more if he chose Stevenson for the number one spot, Kennedy for Vice President and Chester Bowles for Secretary of State...

...Ayres leaves the impression that Hamilton knowingly appointed "crooks to run the Bank of the United States...

...Washington DAVID C WILLIAMS I enjoyed Konrad Kellen's article, regardless of his intentions...

...I daresay there is not one among the thousands of major private corporations in the country who would ever consider employing Nixon to be anything more than a public relations man, for which he qualifies by reason of his chameleon-like characteristics...

...SOL FEINSTONE...

...His only consistency seems to me to be in his support of the oil and real estate lobbies, and his opposition to essential Federal aid to schools, roads and such other public services...

...But from my knowledge of the period I would say that he is otherwise unjust to Hamilton the man...