Dear Dan Sullivan, I'd Like To Recommend John F. Kennedy's Profiles In Courage

You served in the Marines and still do part of the year.  The Marines are known as courageous and never giving up until they have victory.  They are also supposedly fighting for democracy.

I don't have any details on how you served on the battlefield, but in Congress, I don't see any courage or backbone or do or die fight for Democracy.  Instead I see you and many other Republican Senators holding back, weighing the personal consequences of doing the right thing, and waiting until it is safe.

That doesn't seem to me to be the Marine we elected to the Senate.

The evidence against the president is overwhelming.  Just read, or have your staff read for you, Seth Abramson's Proof of Conspiracy and then let me know all the places he's wrong.

Just read the Mueller Report.  The whole report with the grand jury material as well.

I would also suggest you read John F. Kennedy's slim volume, Profiles in Courage, which is about eight US Senators.  (The link takes you to an online version.)  I know your time is limited, but sometimes people need to take a break to reflect on their values.  There's also a free audio version so you could listen while working out.

Kennedy writes:

"This is a book about that most admirable of human
virtues — courage. “Grace under pressure,” Ernest
Hemingway defined it. And these are the stories
of the pressures experienced by eight United States Senators
and the graee with which they endured them — the risks to
their careers, the unpopularity of their courses, the defama-
tion of their characters, and sometimes, but sadly only some-
times, the vindication of their reputations and their
principles.
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which
in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to
insist upon or reward that quality in its chosen leaders today
— and in fact we have forgotten."

Kennedy, the junior Senator from Massachusetts when he wrote the book, also asked readers to be understanding of the pressures a senator faces.  He quotes two former senators and others whose descriptions of the senate are not laudatory.  Then he continues:

"I am convinced that the complication of public business and the com-
petition for the public’s attention have obscured innumerable
acts of political courage — large and small — performed almost
daily in the Senate Chamber. I am convinced that the decline
— if there has been a decline— has been less in the Senate
than in the public’s appreciation of the art of politics, of the
nature and necessity for compromise and balance, and of the
nature of the Senate as a legislative chamber. And, finally, I
am convinced that we have criticized those who have for-
lowed the crowd — and at the same time criticized those who
have defied it — because we have not fully understood the
responsibility of a Senator to his constituents or recognized
the difliculty facing a politician conscientiously desiring, in
Webster’s words, “to push [his] skiff from the shore alone”
into a hostile and turbulent sea. Perhaps if the American
people more fully comprehended the terrible pressures which
discourage acts of pohtical courage, which drive a Senator
to abandon or subdue his conscience, then they might be
less critical of those who take the easier road — and more
appreciative of those still able to follow the path of courage."

Senator, this book is short and the stories of

• John Quincy Adams 
• Daniel Webster
• Thomas Hart Benton 
• Sam Houston
• Edmund G. Ross 
• Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
• George Norris 
• Robert A. Taft

may, I hope, remind you of your duty to truth, to the people of the Alaska and the United States, and to the Constitution as you ponder the pros and cons of voting to convict the president if and when the Senate takes up his impeachment.  Also talk to Alaska's senior Senator who seems to know some of this already.

[I'd note that Kennedy cites these Senators for specific acts that displayed great courage. Those acts have not always redeemed other actions these men committed.  And perhaps John F. Kennedy's view from the US  culture of 1955 would not always be consistent with more modern understandings of American history.]