Sir: Randolph Churchill never disappoints. In vir- tually every article
he writes there is always at least one sentence or paragraph of supreme irrespon- sibility or carelessness. He begins his review (21 April) of William Manchester's Kennedy book tidily enough by listing its various stylistic lapses --not that this kept him from committing an atrocity of his Own later on. Muck up to the press and the telly-boys was the order of the day.') And then he writes: 'It is a routine matter when an American President is paying a visit outside of Washington for all known crackpots, ex-Commun- ists and writers of threatening letters to be quietly Put inside on a vagrancy charge till the President has left the town.'
All? The number of crackpots, ex-Communists and threatening-letter writers in my home town, New York City, must be equal to the population of Coventry. Are they all tailed when Johnson visits New York?
No doubt 1 am taking Mr Churchill's words too literally. I should know by now that he does riot mean everything he writes. At least that is the only charitable explanation I can find for this line: The third episode which remains stamped on one's memory is the murder of Oswald by Ruby which was done for the benefit of the press and television.' Donald S. Connery 3 Green Close, London NW11
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