The first public reference to Mr. Magoo I remember hearing was in the 1975 
banquet address delivered in Chicago at the Palmerhouse Hotel by Dr. Jernigan 
called, "Blindness is the public against us."  It is available on our web 
sight http://www.nfb.org at link 22.  That was my first national convention 
and I remember being there listening to that speech and wondering why we are 
making such an issue of a cartune character.  The current version will 
probably be no different.
And speaking of banquet speeches, I noticed that our sight has every banquet 
address from the most recent one through 1975's speech with one exception, 
the 1978 address given by Ralph Sanders in Baltimore who was president for 
one year between 1977 and 78.  Regardless of what he may have done later on 
he was still president for that time and deserves the credit and recognition 
for that.  We don't throw out the Nixon presidency just because he resigned 
in disgrace.  He was still president of the United States for those 5 and 1/2 
years whether we liked or voted for him or not.  We don't negate O. J. 
Simson's or Pete Rose's accomplishments on the athletic field just because of 
what they did after the fact.  And in our own movement, we also don't disgard 
our own John Taylor, Perry Sunquist or Russell Klutzing presidencies just 
because they were contriversial.  Ralph Sanders should be treated no 
differently.  we have never had better Public Relations than we did when he 
was affiliated with our organization and as I said, no matter what he may 
have done afterwards, he still deserves his due.
btw, I did not find that article about Social Security, Emphasis on vendors.
Harvey 
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