Dear Vice President Johnson:

A while ago you generously promised to look after an appeal of a VA decision for me.  i do not have access to help of any kind.  Therefore I am deeply grateful for you goodness in helping me.  it should not have been necessary for me to appeal this VA decision.  But VA is a shooly arbitrary agency, and all consideration has to be forced.  More so from Montgomery (Ala.) VA.  All I am asking is that my appeal be shown "PROPER CONSIDERATION."

The Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson

Vice President United States

Washington 25, D.C.

Dear Vice President Johnson:

A while ago you generously promised to look after an appeal of a VA decision for me.  i do not have access to help of any kind.  Therefore I am deeply grateful for you goodness in helping me.  it should not have been necessary for me to appeal this VA decision.  But VA is a shooly arbitrary agency, and all consideration has to be forced.  More so from Montgomery (Ala.) VA.  All I am asking is that my appeal be shown "PROPER CONSIDERATION."

I am not concerned about VA's liking what I am asking for.  My VA benefits are based on duly constituted Laws.  When I qualify for a benefit, it must be granted...unless the U.S.A. wants to take the attitude of letting VA arbitrarily discriminate against me!

I do not believe my Government will do that.  I do not believe that you, as Vice President of the United States, will tolerate any such arbitrary attitude.  I am not asking for a handout.  I am asking for a VA benefit that I earned, with my blood.  It may seem like a lot of money.  I suppose it is.  The principle is big too, Sir!

What will I do with the money?  First, I will help some deserving people.  The young son of a deceased veteran, trying to go to college.  His mother works to try to pay his way.  But she has many other obligations to meet.  This young man may not get a college education unless he is helped.  I will help him.  He is the son of

Mrs. John A. Fowler, Jr.

101 Roosevelt Drive

Dothan, Alabama

Mrs. Fowler is the widow of a deceased WW II veteran.  Her lot is not an easy one.  There are others whom I would help.

For myself, I would take a trip to see the world that I helped to free.  I have never seen much of it.  I would like to see the five battlefields that I bled on.  I would like to see the old Czech man who saved my life in POW coal mines.  I would like to see the Czech-German Tribunal judge who sentenced me to death for illegal activities as a POW.  I know my appeal is not done properly.  Will you have some competent authority on VA, a non-VA authority, see that I receive proper consideration, please?  Thank you.  With every good wish, I am,

Hopefully your friend,  Eddie H. Livingston*

*Combat disabled vet.

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