“We made hundreds of phone calls to...
“We made hundreds of phone calls to her, sent her letters and petitions with about 1,200 signatures. We picketed her fund-raiser. Who knows? Maybe the mail finally reached her office.”
--Lynne Cooper, president of the Lake View Terrace Improvement Assn., after her group’s protests persuaded Nancy Reagan to withdraw her support for a proposed drug treatment center.
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