The Vice-President reads no official literature of the war, "because then I might have a conviction about it and that wouldn't be neutral." And so on.

If the people had a _real_ leadership, I believe they'd wake up even in Jonesville.
Well, let's let these things go for the moment.

How's the Ambassador[33]?
And the Ambassador's mother and sister?
They're nice folks of whom and from whom I hear far too little.

Give 'em my love.

I don't want you to rear a fighting family.