HARVARD UNIVERSITY

RICHARD E. NEUSTADT
Professor of Government

January 5, 1965

125 LITTAUER CENTER
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02138

JAN 6 1966

Note to Henry Kissinger:

Subject: International Seminar

Don Price and I talked this morning about the matter you and I discussed the other day. Regarding the Summer Seminar, he agrees with our general thoughts on the matter and suggests the following refinements.

1. We plan now to give this Kennedy School sponsorship and Institute servicing effective summer after next (1967), with the assumption for planning purposes (1966) you proceed as in the past. On that basis we would undertake a $20,000 annual contribution for a four-year period (1967-1970), with the understanding that between us we might wish to replace endowment support with an outside grant of long-term support thereafter.

2. In the interval before we announce affiliation of the seminar you and I must figure out some small symbolic adaptation of format, style or whatever, which could be announced at the time the connection of the School and Institute were formalized -- thereby signifying to the waiting world and donors that we aren't just "bailing-out" a going Harvard operation.

3. You consider going to your present support sources with the line "these people have offered half-support for four years, will you match it?". Don thinks this might be a way to convert the disadvantage of the Kennedy name, from the standpoint of your present sources, into a positive advantage.

Will you let me know how these three thoughts strike you? I'll be out of town for the next two days, and again on Friday, but back over the weekend. Then, a week from Wednesday I leave for two and-a-half weeks.

Regarding the other matter we discussed, Don is most receptive to a School affiliation and School support provided this suits the Ford Foundation, which I guess means that you need to talk there first. As for Institute services to your visitors Don thinks what you and I discussed is fine provided the Center has first crack, in effect, at your list for purposes of affiliation. I see no problem with that and I told Don that Institute services to the seminar could be matched by seminar services to the Institute and both kept entirely informal while we let a pattern of mutual convenience evolve.

One thing more on the summer program: among its utilities to the Institute should be symbolic satisfaction of the moral claim of foreign governments which made unrestricted gifts to the Kennedy Library. For your information I attach a list of such contributions (as best I know them). Bob Kennedy is eager to see the Institute, somehow, sometime do something for nationals of these countries which suggests that their contributions weren't altogether sopped up by bricks and mortar on the banks of the Charles River.

Is there room in the seminar -- conceptually at least -- for all such people?

Another related issue is the German program for Kennedy Memorial Scholarships to Germans which Carl Friedrich is now discussing with Birrenbach and which we will have to settle when Friedrich returns. I have mentioned this to you but we haven't pursued it as much as we probably should have, since we ought to leave room for summer students as well as annual scholars.

David Gordon is following the whole matter for me and I'll ask him to make a date with you, run through the file with you and get your advice.

I enclose my memorandum to Don Price with which we started talking this morning.

R.E.N.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

RICHARD E. NEUSTADT

Professor of Government

December 30, 1965

Memorandum to Dean Price

Subject: The Kissinger Summer International Seminar and The Kissinger-Hoffmann European Seminar

Henry Kissinger and I talked at length today about possible School-Institute relationships with both these undertakings.

Regarding the International Seminar, it strikes me as a natural for Kennedy School sponsorship through the Institute, which gives it institutional underpinning soon, and facilities later in an Institute building.

Henry's cost of operation for the two-month summer seminar is about $45,000, which he has scrounged from various foundation-type sources year by year (with the question raised increasingly, "but what is Harvard contributing"). I propose that effective in the summer of 1967 we commit Institute funds to the tune of $20,000 annually for four years (1967-70), with the understanding that thereafter we and he may wish to seek long-term support from an outside source.

Meanwhile we would have satisfied the symbolism of good use for foreign contributions to the Library. We also would have got ourself summer-time "life" connected with the Kennedy Memorial.

Henry, in return, would happily foster further experimentation with and around the Seminar, making it a base line from which we develop, at leisure, a full summer program for the Institute. He would be willing to continue as director of the Seminar (and if we wish would take on a conceptually broader title as director of School summer programs). He'd like it understood, however, that by the time we'd built an Institute staff and coopted the Seminar's present (mostly part-time) staff, he could have one summer off in three, with some taking the duty (which should be less onerous than now, what with staff underpinning).

This makes a good deal of sense to me. I hope it does to you.

Regarding the European Seminar, Henry and Stanley would like to develop it in the School on roughly the same basis as Science and Public Policy. They have three things in mind, a faculty seminar, a curricular graduate seminar, and occasional conferences on topics which fit naturally into the concerns of seminar members. They plan to bring some Western European visitors into and out of these affairs and also would like influential Europeans of assorted types to feel there was a welcome-mat and place to hang their hats at Harvard whenever they came to the States (like my associate membership at Nuffield). Henry and Stanley would be happy to collate their plans for visitors and friends with our evolving interests at the Institute (including undergraduate affairs) and in return would hope we'd give a welcome in the Institute to their chosen people.

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Accordingly, I'd urge that their seminar become a function of the
Kennedy School (jointly with Arts and Sciences if that's what Franklin
wants and is prepared to pay for) and that you give them appropriate financial
aid (which you could take from the Institute account, for all I care!). Then
we would undertake to treat their guests and friends as one sort or another
of Institute associate, while asking them, at the same time, to take a hand
in Institute recruitment of other associates who might be invited to their
discussion programs.

This strikes me as a wholly appropriate relationship between a
"curricular" function of the School and a "service" function of its Institute.
If this strikes you so I think it would be fine if you'd pursue the matter
with Henry.

R.E.N.

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October 24, 1966

Dear Sir,

I was very pleased to receive your
letter from 20th of September.

I am afraid your information on my
merits are not exact. I am not - though mostly
for lack of time - the translator of your
Affluent Society. I do however belong to those
who for some time have been advocating the
publication of your brilliant work in the Czech
language. It now seems safe to say that the
Czech translation made by my colleagues will
be published in the very near future. I have
had the very pleasant task of writing an
introduction for this edition.

Perhaps I might also mention that
in the forthcoming issue of a new Czechoslovak
popular economic journal called "Ekonomická
revue" I am publishing a short article about
you - in a serial called "Prominent Contempo-
ry Economists". I shall send you a Czech copy
of Affluent Society and the issue of "Ekono-
mická revue" with my article as soon as they
are available.

I am quite certain that the Czechoslovak economic community would be very pleased to welcome you to Czechoslovakia should such a possibility arise. I would also consider it a great honor to welcome you in my home.

Allow me in closing to voice one private wish, which I have been harbouring for some time. Recently a friend of mine returned from a seminar organised by Harvard University having spent three months in the United States. When he told us of his experiences I again realised how such visits and seminars contribute to a complex and deeper understanding of the problems of your affluent society. Would it be possible for you to tell me if any similar possibilities exist and what one should do to gain some sort of scholarship or similar possibility? Thank you very much in advance.

Hoping to hear from you again, I remain
very truly yours

October 28, 1966

Mr. Yizhar Smilansky
Center for International Affairs

Dear Mr. Smilansky:

This is just a note to thank you for
bringing Gad Yaacobi to my attention. I
have written him a letter asking him to
apply for the International Seminar.

I hope to see you soon,

OCT 14 1966

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

ROBERT R. BOWIE, Director
HOLLIS R. CHENERY
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
ALEX INKELES
HENRY A. KISSINGER
SEYMOUR M. LIPSET
EDWARD S. MASON
THOMAS C. SCHELLING
RAYMOND VERNON

6 DIVINITY AVENUE
CAMBRIDGE
MASSACHUSETTS 02138

October 14, 1966

Professor Henry Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Professor Kissinger,

My friend Gad Yaacobi from Israel wrote me he is most interested in your summer program, the International Seminar, and would look forward to taking part in it.

I know Mr. Yaacobi to be a capable young man. He was the head of the Department of Planning for the New Israeli Settlements Project. At present he is the director of the Department for Vocational and Technical Training for the largest trade union in Israel.

I met with him often and knew him well in his position as Chairman of the Economic Committee of my party. He is a brilliant economist. He is one of the vital young leaders of my country who is seeking to meet the challenges of the changing situation there with innovations of his own.

And lastly I believe that if he comes, he will take an active part in your seminar and will contribute a great deal.

Please do not hesitate to ask me whenever you want to know anything more concerning Mr. Yaacobi.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY • CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02138
DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE • 401 BOYLSTON HALL

January 6, 1967

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
6 Divinity Avenue
Harvard University

JAN 9 1966

Dear Professor Kissinger:

It now appears certain that John Brown will not be able to take part in the coming Summer School. Your efforts with Washington seem to have been effective, but the local ambassador is apparently not willing to spare him even for that short time. Since this was our suggestion we regret very much the inconvenience it will have caused you; but I am sure you agree that it was a good idea and that it is a pity it did not work out. It is not likely that we can be of any help to you in the job filling this place in your program but if there is any help this Department can give, I'm sure you know we shall be very glad to cooperate in any way we can.

JCL:eaf

Henry A. Klaariker

Sincerely yours,

Beat redsda',
to Frankel might help?
summer. Do you think a direct abbeal
able to participate in the Seminar this
I was sorry to hear that you will not be
Thank you for your letter, though

Dear Mr. Brown:

Louisville, Kentucky 40208
University of Louisville
Department of English
Mr. John R. Brown

January 3, 1967

UNIVERSITY OF Minnesota

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY • MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55455

February 18, 1967

FEBRUARY 18 1967

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Professor Kissinger:

This is a note to tell you that I have
made arrangements to arrive in Cambridge
Sunday evening March 12 and to leave at
3:00 P.M. Monday after having had lunch with
you. Unless I hear otherwise, I will appear
at your office at 11:30 on Monday. Perhaps
I should add that I plan to spend Sunday
night at the Commander Hotel - in case
you want to get in touch with me.

I appreciated your thoughtful note on
the occasion of my illness. I can report
that I am now 100% well.

It will be good to see you again.

Henry V. Klaasen

Sincerely yours,

Beat redruga

13pt.

I look forward to seeing you on the
and when we will plan to have lunch together.
could see Miss Collina during my class
since I must teach an 11:00 class. You
you could come to my office about 10:30
Thank you for your notes. Periapsa

Dear Mr. Kieft:

Minnesota, Minneaois 55435
University of Minneaois
Department of History
Mr. David Kieft

February 23, 1967

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April 26, 1967

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Professor Kissinger:

I understand from Dean Crooks that you were upset by the recent disclosure of an indirect connection between the CIA and your International Seminar and by the resulting misunderstanding. Dean Crooks also outlined to me your efforts to keep your seminar totally free of government financing.

For these reasons, I would very much like to do a story on your seminar. With your help, I hope to clarify the situation thoroughly, describing your measures to keep out government money as well as your plans for future financing.

I understood that you have had a previous misunderstanding with this newspaper and are naturally reticent to speak with any reporter. Let me assure you, however, that I would be more than willing to go over the text of my story with you prior to its publication. My editor is aware of my promise to you on this matter and adds his assurances that no article will be published without your approval.

I will call your office on Friday to set up an interview time most convenient for you. Thank you for your time.

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