Answering constituent mail, in the old days

“One of the countless drawbacks of being in Congress is that I am compelled to receive impertinent letters from a jackass like you in which you say I promised to have the Sierra Madre mountains reforested and I have been in Congress two months and haven’t done it. Will you please take two running jumps and go to hell.”
– Congressman John McGroarty, engaged in constituent service (1934).

Answering constituent mail, in the old days