William and Ellen Thomas  
                                              
                                        Post Office Box 27217
                                        Washington, D.C. 20038    
         
                                      
                                        November 28, 1986
                                        
Ronald Wilson Reagan
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Dear President Reagan:

     For many years now we have been communicating and teaching in
the public park before your house.  As you should know, our purpose
has been to promote the philosophy of Peace through Cooperation.

     In the course of our efforts to express our opinions we have
been repeatedly arrested, intimidated, assaulted, and have suffered
numerous injustices at the hands of various police officials.

     This is not the  first time we have attempted to bring this
matter to your attention.  In the past we have been ignored.  All
the same we continue to hope for a change of heart in the White
House.

     On November 10, 1986 Thomas was again assaulted by a Park
Police official, Lt. Irwin, who was stealing two signs which Thomas
was attending.  One of those two signs announced the number of days
(44) which our friend Dr. Charles Hyder had been fasting for world
peace and nuclear disarmament.  (See enclosure.)

      In June of 1982 you told the British Parliament:

          "Although  nuclear weapons may mean, if not the end of
mankind, at least the end of civilization as we know it... they are
necessary in order to protect against mindless bureaucracy and
totalitarian police state tactics which combine to stifle
individual freedom and personal excellence."   
 
     On behalf of individual freedom and personal excellence we
once again request that, in your supervisory capacity as Chief  of
the administrative branch of Government, you initiate an
investigation into our allegations that the Department of Interior,
the U.S. Park Police, et. al., have engaged in a combination of
mindless bureaucracy and totalitarian police state tactics against
ourselves and others similarly situated.

     We would suggest that your investigation begin with the
malicious abuse of process which, we feel, is readily apparent in
the incident with Lt. Irwin.

     Really, Mr. President, this sort of thing simply cannot occur
in free, civilized, and decent societies.

     We request that you inform us as to the results of the
investigation, and stand ready to provide any further details which
your office may require.

                                   Your Friends,




                                   William and Ellen Thomas

                                   

DAY 67 of DR. HYDER'S FAST in LAFAYETTE PARK