KISSINGER, HENRY A.

February 22, 1969

My venerated Max:

If you knew what life I lead, you would spare me
your sarcasm.

Do come to see me as soon as I am back from
Europe. I need to talk to you, and I think I can
probably arrange for you to have a few minutes
with the President.

Mr. Max Ascoli
660 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10021

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MAX ASCOLI

660 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK, N. Y. 10021

February 18, 1969

(212) TE 2-8800

Dear Henry:

Remember me? We used to know each other
and, in fact, a bottle of a nonalcoholic beverage, meant to be drunk by you, is still in my icebox.

Seriously, I had thought of coming to
Washington, where there are a number of people
I would like to see, including you. And I would
have loved to see the President. But I think I
better do it after the caravan comes back from
Europe. I would have liked to talk to you about
Italy, for instance -- far from being the most
important of the countries you are going to
visit, although it is, as usual, at a very critical stage. But I don't think there is time now.
Should you, however, want to ask me something,
you know my telephone numbers.

P.S. On the whole, I think Time did a fairly
good job on you.

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D. C.

MAX ASCOLI

(212) TE 2-8800

March 5, 1969

My dear Henry:

You certainly will not be surprised to know
that I too want to have a good chat with you. I
want to see a few other people in Washington, but
the list is short -- quite the opposite from the
number of those I don't want to see, Meg at the
top. (I mention this only because we have not
seen each other for some time and you cannot know
the new addenda to my list of pet abominations.)
I was thinking of coming with Marion to Washington
for a couple of days at the end of next week.
Needless to say, I would be happy to see the Pre-
sident, but this does not have top priority con-
sidering how precious his time is. Last night,
he was great.

Marion, in the couple of days we are in
Washington, will be busy at her traditional do-
goodish business, aside, I hope, I hope, from
going to the National Gallery with me. This
winter, I have been so taken by my work that I
did not think I could give myself a vacation.

Our best to you,

MAX ASCOLI

660 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK, N.Y. 10021

(212) TE 2-8800

April 18, 1969

Dear Henry:

It was good to get once more the sense of our friendship yesterday, but I am sure you felt as I did that it was not the best possible meeting we could have had. I found you so all-absorbed by the drama every single day brings to you that I missed something of your extraordinary dialectical capacity to find common links among entirely different phenomena. You told me that I looked tired, which certainly was true, considering that I had been writing steadily since ten o'clock in the morning and gladly accepted the postponement of our appointment from 2:30 to 3:30 so as to do more writing, skipping lunch.

There is no doubt that you and I ought to do our best to meet more frequently, for, with all due respect for your position and my temporary loneliness, we care for our country, we two immigrants, to a passionate degree. It is not up to you to come to New York, so I ought to look into the transportation problem, including the new train, which would at least give me the possibility of working while en route. Whenever you think we can spend some time together, even as much as we did yesterday, I will be glad to take a chance. Clear?

It burns me now not to have explained to you what I mean by collusion, but that's all right. My time to talk a little bit more will come. At present, the best I can do is to listen, and, mind you, the person who will live up to this noble principle is none other than your friend,

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P.S. When you asked me about the attitude of Dean Rusk toward you, I gave an incorrect answer. Dean did not like you much when he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation. But in the succeeding years, when was head man at Foggy Bottom, your name was mentioned on various occasions, and of course he knew that you and I were close friends. Anyway, I think I know how to read the expression of his face and the twinkling of his eyes, and I would conclude, with some unimportant ups and downs, that the recent trend has been uppish. It certainly was so when we met last Wednesday. He even said it: I am glad you are going to see Kissinger tomorrow. I think it would be a good thing for you, too, to see him. You certainly know his address, but, anyway, here it is: 4980 Quebec Street, N.W., telephone 244-5117.

Incidentally, when I come to Washington just to see you, I don't see why I should inform anybody else.

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500

MAX ASCOLI

(212) TE 2-8800

December 11, 1969

Dear Henry:

Thank you for your reassuring letter with the enclosed communication from Warner's solicitor. I am sure that when and if the Burchett characters go on the warpath again the U. S. Governmental authority directly involved will give Warner the assistance he needs.

What follows is the latest installment of a story you know quite well: I am the best paying guinea pig provided by God to the medical profession. Specifically, I managed to fall and fracture my right wrist. It happened, of all places, on the Sinai Peninsula. Marion and I had gone to Israel for a brief vacation and the Israeli government, ever eager to oblige, had arranged a tour of the front for a number of Americans. The mishap occurred on November 17, the day after our arrival. Next Monday, four weeks later, the cast is going to be removed. During all this time, of course, I haven't been able even to sign my name, dictation is not enough, and if I have not been put into a loony bin it must be because of some protection from heaven. Even after Monday, I will have to spend a week or ten days re-training and strengthening my right arm.

In Jerusalem, I had little disposition to go around and see things or people, but one visit I must say was singularly rewarding. I had met Golda Meir first in '57, to gather material for a long essay, and for some reason our relationship has always been cordial. This time, I found in her one of the most outspoken and embittered critics of American liberals that I have ever encountered -- including myself. She was lyrical in talking about the President. In general, I am inclined to take all declarations of this nature by Israeli leaders at a discount. In the case of dear old Goldie, I must say that the discount is minimal.

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

MAX ASCOLI

(212) TE 2-8800

May 7, 1970

Dear Henry:

You have not heard from me for quite a while but certainly you have guessed the reason. I have not been well and still am not well, although now I can come to the office. Some extraordinarily ingenious bugs have got into my urinary system and, so far, have been the winners over a series of antibiotics prescribed by a number of the highest-priced urologists in the metropolitan area.

All this is nothing compared to the infections that, so I feel, must be subjecting you to incessant, cruel tests. I am no doctor and can only remind you of what I hope you have never forgotten: my friendship is always there and nothing can touch it, for it is based on confidence and affection.

With agonizingly slow progress because of my physical troubles, my work has been going on. Some months ago, I thought I had found the title around which the too-many-handwritten pages could be organized: *The Revolt Against Freedom*. Now, I have started to have doubts about the revolt idea. Freedom is finite, and it has been wasted away in a mad binge of equalitarianism. It's an ecological tragedy. But no matter how desperate my thinking may be, I am not exempted from the duty to express it.

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JUNE 8 1940
DENTON FIELDS

10031
New York, New York
660 Madison Avenue
Mr. Max Vascoll

Henry V. Klaeujer

Warm regards,

completely.
I hope that your good health has returned
for you and look forward to seeing you.
I will keep that date open
might be able to come to Washington to
fact it is long overdue. Do you think you
I agree that a get-together is needed. In
Carroll. I appreciate your thoughtfulness.
sending me a copy of your letter to Mally
Many thanks for your very nice note and for

Dear Maxi

June 12, 1940

Dear Maxi

June 12, 1940

KISSINGER, HARRY V.

MAX ASCOLI

June 4, 1970

(212) TE 2-8800

Dear Henry:

You probably have heard of Wally Carroll and
of the influence an editorial of his had on LBJ,
via that mercurial friend of ours, Dean Acheson.
Carroll has quite a number of friends in the Wash-
ington bureau of The New York Times, and he is
closest to Scotty. He deserves to be taken
seriously because he is a good man -- aside from
the fact that, from time to time, he goes off his
rocker.

Anyway, his latest editorial outburst has, I
am sure, made an impact on his Washington pals.
I am also fairly sure that a number of copies must
have been sent to the White House. Here enclosed
you will find a copy of the letter I just sent him.
We have been friends for years, and I consider him
a man of remarkable integrity. But it is just be-
cause of these earnest, single-minded people that
our country is now in such danger.

Well, I could go on mentioning some more names,
but what's the use? What I really think we need is
a get-together.

KISSINGER, HENRY R. /A*

S.C. Cal.

NOV 26 1971

Dear Max:

Many thanks for your letter of November 19 and for sending the copies of your correspondence with Paul Nitze. I found it most interesting and appreciate your passing it along.

It is more than "about time" that we saw one another -- it is long overdue. When can you come to Washington? I look forward to seeing you some time soon.

Warm regards,

Henry A. Kissinger

Mr. Max Ascoli
660 Madison Avenue
New York, N. Y. 10021

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DEC 3 1971

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MAX ASCOLI

(212) TE 2-8800

November 19 1971

Dear Paul:

I just received your letter inviting me to become a Friend of the Harvard University Center for International Affairs, and I hasten to answer: of course, yes.

There is only one question I would like to ask, which is, I am sure, superfluous, given the character of those that with you are on the organizing committee. Actually I would not have asked it if I had not read an article last night in the Wall Street Journal about the professors not reinstated in their jobs because of having worked for the government — the classical example, of course, being that of Walt Rostow.

In your letter you mention Henry Kissinger, as one of those who have contributed most significantly to the Center, and I cannot conceive that Henry, if he wants to come back, be subjected by the Center to the same treatment M.I.T. has inflicted on Walt. Anyway, because of my confidence in you people, my question scarcely needs an answer. I am asking the office that takes care of my Fund to prepare a check, and you will receive it next week.

Mr. Paul H. Nitze
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Mass. 02138

FRIENDS OF THE
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Organizing Committee

PAUL H. NITZE, Chairman
GEORGE W. BALL
GABRIEL HAUGE
DAVID J. JONES
FRANKLIN A. LINDSAY
NEIL H. McELROY
FRANCIS T. P. PLIMPTON

6 DIVINITY AVENUE
CAMBRIDGE
MASSACHUSETTS 02138

November 8, 1971

Dear Max,

We write to ask you to join us as charter members of the Friends of the Harvard University Center for International Affairs. Through service on the Visiting Committee of the Center, we have had the opportunity to know and assess its work. We are convinced that it is performing a very valuable function and that it deserves to be helped at a time when financing of international studies is becoming increasingly difficult in the United States.

From its start almost a decade and a half ago, the Center has tried to identify and clarify the basic processes of change in international affairs. Rather than emphasizing day to day issues, Center research has tried to focus on our longer term interest in the creation of a peaceful and just world order. It does not exaggerate to claim that Center research under Thomas C. Schelling, Robert R. Bowie, Henry A. Kissinger and others has contributed significantly to the stabilization of the nuclear arms race. Research on the processes of common markets has clarified the basis for European-American relations. The work of Hollis B. Chenery, Alex Inkeles, Samuel P. Huntington and others on the economic, social and political aspects of development cannot be ignored by anyone concerned with the unequal relations between the northern and southern parts of the globe.

Raymond Vernon's work on the multinational corporation has pioneered in the study of this important new factor in international affairs. Last year the Center launched a new study of international order under the direction of Joseph S. Nye that concentrates on the developing patterns

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of transnational relations in world affairs and the problems
which these relations create both for US foreign policy and
international institutions.

The Development Advisory Service of the Center provides high level economic advice to a number of governments of developing countries which have sought its help--currently Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia and Peru.

Under the Fellows program, almost 200 experienced officials and others in public international affairs from 32 countries have spent a year at Harvard. Many Fellows have gone on to occupy key positions, such as British Ambassador to Moscow; Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Industrial Development (India); Director of Operations for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff; Prime Minister of Korea; German Ambassador to Paris; Assistant Director General for Research and Planning (ILO); Canadian Ambassador to Peking; Assistant Secretary General of NATO for Political Affairs; Director of American Affairs Bureau (Japanese Foreign Ministry); and Chief, Foreign Capital Investment Board (Indonesia).

We are now in a period of major change in the setting of international affairs. Not only are we faced with difficult problems related to disparities in development, nuclear weapons, multinational corporations, and environmental pollution, but internal value changes in the developed "post-industrial" societies are changing the domestic bases of foreign policies.

Ironically, one consequence of these domestic changes is a diversion of government and foundation attention and financial support away from international affairs. Although the Center's achievements are considerable, it is encountering difficulty in finding unrestricted funds to carry on its work. To help meet this need, we are asking you to contribute $1,000 or more to become a Friend of the Center. As a Friend, you will regularly receive the Annual Report of the Center's activities and copies of the Occasional Papers, each dealing with some topic of international affairs. You will also have the privilege of receiving without charge your choice of books published during the year under the auspices of the Center. More important, however, you will

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

August 9, 1973

Dear Henry:

While you are in Southern California in late August, Lila and I would like to host a dinner in our home there honoring your lady, you and the other Presidential Counsellors and Assistants and spouses who will be in San Clemente.

The guests would be twenty-five to thirty civic, business, entertainment and social leaders of Southern California and their wives.

We are planning the dinner for the evening of Saturday, August 25th and would appreciate it if you could join us. Al Haig agrees that the occasion is appropriate. He plans to attend and has noted that a Presidential drop-by is a possibility. Please let my secretary, Jean Randall, know of your pleasure.

I will provide the more specific details before you leave for San Clemente.

If you prefer to come alone I'll have an *interesting* dinner partner for you.

Honorable Henry Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500

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8.10 1973

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## Invitees to Roy L. Ash dinner, August 25, 1973

Holmes Tuttle

Leonard K. Firestone

William French Smith, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Henry Salvatori, Grant Oil Tool Co.

Earle M. Jorgensen

Charles Luckman

Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Times Mirror Co.

George Hearst Jr. - Los Angeles Herald Examiner

Chauncey J. Medberry - Bank of America

Frederick G. Larkin - Security Pacific National Bank

John V. Vaughn - Crocker National Bank

J. Howard Edgerton - Calif. Federal Savings & Loan

Art Linkletter

Bob Hope

John Wayne

Donn Tatum - Walt Disney Productions

Jack D. Wrather - Wrather Corp.

Stanton G. Hale - Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Asa V. Call - Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co.

John A. McCone

Justin W. Dart - Dart Industries, Inc.

Daniel J. Haughton - Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

Thomas V. Jones - Northrop Corp.

Dr. Si Ramo - TRA, Inc.

Charles B. Thornton - Litton Industries, Inc.

Thornton F. Bradshaw - Atlantic Richfield

Robert F. Bauer - Global Marine, Inc.

Taft Schreiber - MCA

Jules C. Stein - MCA

Edward W. Carter - Broadway-Hale Stores Inc.

Charles F. Ducommun - Ducommun, Inc.

Norman Barker Jr. - United California Bank

Ronald Reagan

William Wilson - San Vicente Investments Inc.

Robert H. Finch

Thomas Bradley - Mayor of Los Angeles

Peter F. Schabarum - Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles

Henry Mancini

Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin

Cardinal Timothy Manning - Los Angeles

Norman Chandler - Times Mirror Co.

Alfred Bloomingdale

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

November 1, 1971

Dear Paul:

I will appreciate very much your providing me with
a copy of Ben Ehrlichman's will.

Thank you for your continuing courtesy and patience
in this matter.

You may send it to my home address:

330 Chesapeake Drive
Great Falls, Virginia 22066

Incidentally, should you need to reach me, you can
always do so through the White House switchboard:
(202) 456-1414.

Kindest personal regards,

Mr. Paul P. Ashley
Attorney at Law
Seattle First National Bank Building
Seattle, Washington 98104

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NOV 2 1971

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NOA S 1971
RECEIVED

JDE:jph

Seattle, Washington 98104
Seattle First National Bank Building
Attorney at Law
Mr. Paul D. Ashley

John D. Ehrlichman

Yours sincerely,

Kindest personal regards,

(SOS) 426-1414.
always do so through the White House switchboard:
Incidentally, should you need to reach me, you can

Great Falls, Virginia 23066
330 Chesapeake Drive

a copy of Ben Ehrlichman's will.
I will appreciate very much your providing me with

Dear Paul:

November 1, 1971

KISSIMGER, HENRY A.