DISSINGER,

HENRY A./HOLIDAY GREETING
REC'D

IMPERIAL EMBASSY OF IRAN
WASHINGTON, D. C.

December 21, 1972

The Ambassador

My dear Dr. Kissinger:

I have the great pleasure to forward herewith a card from His Excellency Assadollah Alam, Minister of the Imperial Court, and Mrs. Alam, conveying their Season's Greetings to you.

With best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Enclosure

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

State, War and Navy Building, Washington, D. C. - Christmas - 1890
*(Now the Old Executive Office Building)*

The Vice President's office is located on the second floor of this historic Washington landmark adjacent to the White House.

The French Renaissance building, designed by Alfred B. Mullett, was started in 1871 and completed in 1888.

President Nixon has an office on the first floor. Other presidents who have occupied offices in the building include Herbert Hoover, after a White House fire in 1929; Lyndon B. Johnson as Vice President; Franklin Delano Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy; William Howard Taft as Secretary of War, and Theodore Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

*A reproduction of an original oil painting by William Nowland Van Powell of Memphis, Tennessee, presented to the Vice President and Mrs. Agnew by the artist in 1971.*

RECEIVED
FEB 27 1973
CENTRAL FILES