KISSINGER, HENRY A./L

MAY 17 1971

Dear Peter:

Just a short note to tell you how sorry I was not to be able to attend the White House Correspondents Association Dinner. Difficulties with my transportation home from California made it impossible for me to get back in time for the dinner.

I have heard only high praise of your comments at the dinner which makes me even sorrier that I was not there.

You were very thoughtful to invite me and I wanted you to know how much I appreciated it.

Mr. Peter Lisagor
Chicago Daily News
1229 National Press Building
Washington, D. C.

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WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' DINNER... May 8, 1971

peter lisagor

The time has now come to pass this cup to worthier lips.

But before I do, I must give you a brief accounting
of my administration.

It has been a magnificent, historic, and altogether
dismal **failure**. I could have followed the popular course, but the
plain truth is that I couldn't find it. I kept winding up in dark
tunnels, and the tunnels kept winding up in cul-de-sacs.

I had plans when I took this job, but to be perfectly
ambiguous about it, they collapsed one by one.

The collapse began when we were unable to find COSVN.
We did find G. Harrold Carswell...and Colonel Calley. And through
the good offices of Clark Mollenhoff, we located Otto Otepka. They were
good copy, but we sort of counted on COSVN.

Mr. President, I must confess in your presence that -- as
you suspected -- I was among those who had a plan to drive a wedge between
you and the Vice President. It had to/with the Peoples' Republic of China,
hereinafter to be known as a sister socialist republic. But as with
everything else, that plan too went awry when the Vice President learned
how Mao Tse-Tung handled CBS - you know CBS, the Chinese Broadcasting
System.

The Vice President was told that Mao edited in advance
all the scripts of CBS' Chungking Clonkeit, and the Veep figured that
anybody with that much hutzpah couldn't be all bad. So the Vice President
is meeting with the Business Council in Hot Springs, Va., tonight, lecturing
them on the merits of trade with Peking, so help me Anna Chennault.

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lisagor -- 2

My plan to restore the traditional role of the Vice President -- that of inquiring after the health of the President each day -- never got off the ground.

During my year, John Connally came among us, like Paul Bunyan in seven-league boots, firing from both barrels. The Treasury Secretary is trying to bail out Lockheed. He says that federal subsidies good enough for the oil companies ought to be good enough for an airplane maker. There are rumors the President may send Connally to Japan to straighten them out on textiles. But the Japanese aren't worried. After all, they _invented_ kamikaze.

I think I should make plain that Washington, despite all you read or saw, was not really upset by the May Day tribe demonstrations. This, you know, is the only city in the world where a bank robber runs the risk of being mugged on his way to work. (If Chief Wilson got here without being busted, I'm only half kidding!)

It was interesting, though, that Attorney-General Mitchell, in the midst of all the skirmishing, called Dial-A-Prayer -- and got Rennie Davis at the other end. He tried a second time -- and got Ramsay Clark. So he called home to get the right number, and his wife advised him to call "Information." He did, and you know who answered - J. Edgar Hoover.

Incidentally, at the height of the demonstrations, Billy Graham called Dial-A-Prayer, and they hung up on him.

Me, I'll settle for Gov. Reagan's tax accountant.
Investigators have discovered why the Governor didn't have to pay California state taxes last year. He invested in Lockheed, the SST, and a swordfish cannery.

In all fairness, though, I must say it has been a dreary passage. During my squalid term, Joe Alsop proclaimed the beginning of the end 14 different times.

lisagor -- 3

Things simply went from bad to worse. Take the Dump Nixon
Campaign, otherwise known as the Return of Charlie Goodell. If Harold
Stassen shows up, Mr. President, we've had it.

There was one dim light at the end of one dark tunnel.
The postal service seemed to have improved. I got my latest copy of the
Saturday Evening Post just this morning.

It was a year in which we managed to raise our voices and
lower our sights. I offer nothing in mitigation. I know history will judge
me harshly. But I say to hell with history. I think we have a fair chance
of hacking it.

KISSINGER, HENRY

Dear Mr. Liu:

Thank you for your letter of February 25 informing me
that you will be visiting Washington. Would you please
be kind enough to telephone my office (456-2236) and
arrange with my assistant, Mr. David Halperin, a mutually
convenient time for us to meet.

I hope it will be possible for me to see you again, some
many years after we were together at the Harvard Inter-
national Seminar.

Mr. Louis C. Y. Liu, PIO/P 484-10003
Agency for International Development
1901 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

MAY 3 1 1971

Dear Mr. Liu:

Thank you for the marble ashtray which was
delivered to my office today. It is a very
handsome gift and I appraise your thought-
fulness.

I was sorry that we were not able to get to-
gether while you were in Washington. It
was simply impossible to make a space in
my unusually heavy schedule.

I always enjoy hearing from former members
of the Seminar and hope that you will stay in
touch.

Mr. Louis Cheng-Yuan Liu
No. 6, Lane 6, Tai-an Street
Taipei City, Taiwan
Republic of China

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WITH BEST WISHES [LC]
TO DR. HENRY A. KISSINGER

FROM Louis Cheng-Yuan Liu

CHAIRMAN, PRESIDIUM, DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PARTY.
CHAIRMAN, PRESIDium, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

NO. 6, LANE 6, TAI-AN ST.,
TAIPEI CITY, TAIWAN, CHINA.

TELEPHONE: 29347

MAY 25, 1971

會大民國國民華中
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
REPUBLIC OF CHINA
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, CHINA

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Louis Cheng-Yuan Liu
6, Lane 6, Tai-An St.,
Taipei City, Taiwan.
Republic of China.
February 25, 1971.

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
White House,
Washington, D.C.
U. S. A.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

As a participant in a program sponsored
by the Agency for International Development under the State
Department, I shall have an opportunity to visit the United
States and Mexico for a period of about four weeks. It is more
than twelve years since the last time I saw you when I left the
Harvard International Seminar, and I certainly would like very
much to drop in and say hello during the week of my stay in
Washington. I will try to contact your office as soon as at
my arrival in the later part of March. My mailing address in
Washington, D.C. is:

Louis C.Y.Liu, PIO/P 484-10003
Agency For International Development
1901 Pennsylvania Av., N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Hoping to see you soon, I am,

Sincerely yours,

Hoping to see you soon, I am,

Washington, D.C.
1901 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Agency For International Development
Louiis C.Y.Lin, P.O. Box 484-10002

Washington, D.C. is:

my arrival in the latter part of March. My mailing address in
Washington. I will try to contact your office as soon as at
much to drop in and say hello during the week of my stay in
Harvard International Seminar, and I certainly would like very
than twelve months since the last time I saw you when I left the
States and Mexico for a period of about four weeks. It is more
Department, I shall have an opportunity to visit the United
by the Agency for International Development under the State
As a participant in a program sponsored

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

N. S. V.
Washington, D.C.
White House,
Dr. Henry V. Kissinger

February 22, 1971.
Republic of China.
Taipei City, Taiwan.
C. Lane C, Tai-An St.,
Louis Cheng-Yuan, Lin

TAIPEI, TAIWAN, CHINA
REPUBLIC OF CHINA
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
會大民國國民華中

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

MAR 9 1971

Dear John:

Many thanks for your note of March 2. I
am always pleased to hear from others
about the good work of my staff members.

Mr. John E. Lockwood
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, N. Y. 10020

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