[ Autograph ] Walter Lippman 1889-1974 American journalist and author, Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the founders of New Republicmagazine. T.L.S. 1p. 8vo.., Washington, Sep. 16, 1950 Lippman writes fellow publisher Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. declining to support JamesRoosevelt for Governor of California, adding: ' '..I have made it a rule for more than twenty-five years never to take any personal part in politics...'