{"value"=>"<p>The Letters to the Editor cover the period from 1931 through 1983, and address numerous elements of American politics and world events. Examples of O'Connor's pet topics include Communism, immigrant rights, the Spanish Civil War, the Nuremberg trials, the conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, the Rosenberg executions, the Berlin Crisis, the Korean War, Cuba and Fidel Castro, the Cuban Missile Crisis, PLO-Israeli relations, race and police violence in America, the war in Vietnam, nuclear war, the SALT treaty, abortion, and the exile of the Shah of Iran.</p> <p>Recipients of these letters were generally newspapers, journals, and radio stations. Political figures who received letters from O'Connor included U.S. Senators and Representatives, every President from Eisenhower to Carter, Henry Kissinger, Erich Honecker, Fidel Castro, Jawaharlal Nehru, and various ambassadors and counsels of the Soviet Union and France. In several cases the outgoing letters are arranged with the recipient's response to her letter.</p> <p>An April 25, 1955 letter offers insight into O'Connor's attitude towards her inheritance of Lloyd family money. The mailing is addressed to a Eugene Suter, Jr. or New York, a Socialist who had been featured in the newspapers as recently having rejected his inherited fortune. O'Connor wrote to encourage him to maintain the inheritance, and put it to good use fighting injustice and poverty. She wrote \"Rich men, the kind ones, will give to charity, to mop up spilt milk. But they will not give to change the system that keeps spilling it....you are the kind who should keep it and use it for a good purpose.\"</p> <p>In addition to her more politically-motivated addresses, Jessie O'Connor also wrote numerous letters to businesses and corporations, expressing complaints about their products and services, or offering helpful suggestions for product design. An example is her amusing 1977 letter to Kohler Co., which contains suggestions for better toilet seat and faucet handle design.</p>"}