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DEC 20 1968

Prof. Henry Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
6 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge, Mass. 02138

Dear Professor Kissinger,

I am writing just to express my best wishes to you in connection with your taking over this highly responsible position within the new administration in Washington. This has been a very pleasant and encouraging news for everyone who knows you.

May I use this opportunity to express my genuine hope that this new job would not be an insurmountable obstacle to realising our plan of having you visit Yugoslavia, and particularly my Institute. I am sure that some of your next trips will bring you to this part of the world and you will be both interested and able to spare some time to spend with us.

In this hope and with best wishes for the New Year I send you my most cordial regards.

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6th December 1968

Dear Mr Kissinger,

I have just read in the papers the announcement regarding your appointment as Presidential Adviser to Nixon and hasten to offer my heartiest congratulations to you.

Please believe me, I am not trotting out mere perfunctory cliches when I say that no better person could have been found for this important, and in the context of the present world situation, challenging job. I have no doubt that you with your clear and incisive grasp of world affairs, and in particular of the defence problems, will be of great assistance to the President in the discharge of his onerous duties.

I am wondering whether your new appointment will mean temporary abeyance of the annual Harvard International Seminar which those of us who have had the pleasure of attending found so very useful.

Mr Henry A. Kissinger
6, Divinity Avenue
Cambridge
Massachusetts 02138
U.S.A.

U.S.A.
Massachusetts 02138
Cambridge
e, Divinity Avenue
Mr Henry A. Klaasinger

found so very useful.
Seminar which those of us who have had the pleasure of attending
mean temporarily absence of the annual Harvard International
outhern states.

I am wondering whether your new appointment will
of great assistance to the President in the discharge of his
affairs, and in particular of the defence problems, will be
doubt that you with your clear and incisive grasp of world
the present world situation, challenging job. I have no
have been found for this important, and in the context of
bureaucratic climate when I say that no better horizon could
bless me believe me, I am not trotting out were
and have to offer my heartiest congratulations to you.

regarding your appointment as Presidential Advisor to Nixon
I have just read in the papers the announcement

Dear Mr Klaasinger,

6th December 1968

DEC 16 1968

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Asia For Peace Society

Secretary General:
Nasim Ahmed.
Cablegrams:
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London, W.13.

Tel: 01-997 0136

3rd December, 1968.

Professor Henri A. Kissinger,
Executive Director of Harvard
International Seminar,
6, Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Professor Kissinger,

Congratulations and good wishes on your
appointment on the White House staff by President-Elect
Nixon. Yours is indeed a fitting appointment.

You might remember our brief meeting on
the occasion of your excellent lecture to the members of
the Institute of Strategic Studies last September. I was
not able to meet you again during your short stay in
England, but I hope a meeting will be possible during
my proposed visit to the U.S. in the new year.

I was struck by the references in the
British Press to your essay in "Agenda for the Nation"
submitted to Mr. Nixon. Would it be possible for your
office to let me have the full text?

As I told you in London, our newly-found
Society, which is actively backed by such men as Rt. Hon.
Philip Noel-Baker, M.P., a Nobel Peace Prize holder,
remains dedicated to the cause of lasting peace in Asia.
My proposed visit to the U.S. will be in pursuance of this
quest which also took me to Moscow and Peking where I
met such leaders as Premier Kosygin. The last time I was
in the U.S. was with President Ayub Khan in 1961 when I
met the late President Kennedy and President (then Vice-
President) Johnson.

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Sincerely yours,

had the admiration of our editora.
I hardly have to tell you that you have always
on the foreign relations policy.
ton needs is having Professor Klaaijder's advice
Washington, always mentioned that what Washing-
the pleasure of meeting a number of times in
ment, because Dr. Fritz Kraemer, whom I had
I myself am not astonished about this appoint-
President-elect Nixon.

your appointment to the most inner circle of
I take pleasure in congratulating you upon

Dear Professor Klaaijder:

Cambridge 38, Massachusetts
6 Divinity Avenue
Center for International Affairs
Professor Henry A. Klaaijder

December 3, 1968

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Mr. Henry A. KISSINGER
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Center of International Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Mass. 02138

Mon cher Ami,

Mes félicitations pour votre entrée dans la
grande politique. Je suppose que votre lettre du 25 novembre perd,
de ce fait même, toute portée ; mais, en revanche, il me faudra
aller vous voir à Washington. Peut-être même pourriez-vous arranger
quelque chose que je souhaite depuis longtemps : une longue conver-
sation particulière entre le nouveau Président des Etats-Unis et moi,
dont je tirerai un grand article qui pourrait avoir une influence en
Europe, en améliorant les "images" du Président élu.

Réfléchissez à la question et,
bien amicalement à vous,

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Herrn
Professor Henry A. Kissinger
c/o Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge/Mass. 02138/USA

Lieber Henry Kissinger,

Ihre Ernennung erfuhr ich durch die Amerikanische Zeitung in Rom. Die Überlegung, ob ich Sie bedauern oder beglückwünschen soll, entschied ich - nicht zuletzt aufgrund der eigenen Erfahrung - zugunsten des Glückwunsches.

Ich kann das Empfinden verstehen, dass Sie der Herausforderung nicht ausweichen wollten, die in diesem Posten liegt, einem der wichtigsten, die ein Präsident zu vergeben hat. Sie werden, mehr noch als bisher, Kraft, Klarheit und Mut brauchen, vielleicht sogar den Mut zum Nicht-Wagen.

Wir hatten schon in der Vergangenheit manchen interessanten Gedankenaustausch. Ich freue mich darauf, ihn fortzusetzen.

Der Aussenminister hat mir aufgetragen, Ihnen seine Glückwünsche und Grüsse zu übermitteln, was ich sehr gern tue.

Bitte, sagen Sie auch Richard Allan einen Gruss von mir, den ich im Oktober in New York kennen gelernt habe.

Mit den besten Grüssen
Ihr

C.C.I.

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Prof. Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
6 Divinity Road
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

My congratulations -- not so much for the appointment
as for your decision to accept it.

It was the kind of responsible act which your friends
have come to expect of you, and for which they cherish your
friendship.

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I was delighted to see your new appointment, on which
very many congratulations. It is very good to know that
someone with such a real regard for the Atlantic alliance
will be in a position of such great influence.

I am all the more sorry that we did not manage to
meet when last you were here, particularly because I too
shall soon be leaving, although unlike you I shall be
going away from the centre of power rather than towards
it.

Professor Henry A. Kissinger,
Harvard University Center for
International Affairs,
6, Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge,
Massachusetts 02138,
U.S.A.

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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
OF THE UNITED STATES

1200 SEVENTEENTH STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C. 20036 TEL. 296-1770

Mrs. Bruce B. Benson, President

December 20, 1968

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Director
Defense Studies Program
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

On behalf of the League of Women Voters of the United States, I congratulate you on your designation by President-elect Nixon as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs. Our members throughout the nation - in the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico -- join me in extending best wishes for your success in your new assignment. We know that you bring to the task a broad understanding of foreign policy, military strategy, history and government.

The League's continuing commitment to international cooperation has led us to a clear understanding that building a durable peace in a troubled world is not an easy thing. In the area of foreign affairs, the League supports U. S. policies to promote world trade and development while maintaining a sound economy and to strengthen the peacekeeping and peacebuilding capacities of the United Nations system. Also, within the next few months, League members will conclude several years of intensive study on U. S. relations with the People's Republic of China, putting into concrete terms the League's philosophy and position on this international issue.

I realize that these are all matters of utmost concern to you, as well as to the League, and we look forward with interest and anticipation to the insights and creativity we know you bring to your new post.

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Green Bay, Wisconsin

### Secretary

Mrs. Eugene H. Smith
Idaho Falls, Idaho

### Treasurer

Mrs. Ezra Levin
Champaign, Illinois

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Mrs. David G. Bradley
Durham, North Carolina

Mrs. K. W. Greenawalt
Hartsdale, New York

Mrs. Charles W. Johnson
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mrs. Fleming Law
Atlanta, Georgia

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Washington, D. C.

Mrs. K. E. Montgomery
Eugene, Oregon

Mrs. H. E. Murphree, Jr.
Whiting, Indiana

Mrs. Bert Rabinowitz
Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts

Mrs. Griffith L. Resor, Jr.
Cincinnati, Ohio

Mrs. Alexander M. White, Jr.
New York, New York

Mrs. William H. Wood
Bladensburg, Maryland

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DEC 9 1968

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CHARGÉ DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
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Dear Sir,

I am happy to congratulate you for your appointe-
ment in the White House as Special Assistant for National
Security.

I keep a great memory of our meetings this
summer in the Harvard International Seminar. I hope
that in this new position you will be able to promote
better relations between France and the United States.
Your books and lectures give rise to great expectations
to that respect.

Professor Henry A. KISSINGER
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue

CAMBRIDGE
Mass.02138

Guy BERGER

DEC 9 1968

70 PINE STREET
NEW YORK 5

December 4, 1968

My dear Henry,

This is a line of congratulations
on the White House job. Best make the most
of the honeymoon--a little later the going will
be difficult. Foreign affairs today is in part
conducted by directing personal propaganda against
any individual found inconvenient to the designs
of some Power. America has no propaganda service
of its own, and has been unwilling to admit that
foreign propaganda played a substantial part in
the making of opinion within this country. Since
there are bound to be crises ahead, we have to
expect a good deal of this sort of thing,
especially in New York and Washington--and we
have no well-developed defense against it.

But I did not mean to write seriously. This is merely to wish you all the good luck possible.

Dr. Henry Kissinger,
Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Paul Bernat
145 Clyde Street
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02167

December 5, 1968

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Executive Director
Harvard University International Seminar
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Henry:

I join the ranks of thousands in wishing you the greatest
of success in your appointment as advisor on security to the
President.

I have always associated with you the great faculty of
creative thinking, and I am sure it will be in good stead to
the President, the nation and the world during your tenure
in this post.

In recent months I have been reading various books on phases
of diplomatic history and the last two wars. Throughout
there was the thread of importance of the right envisionary
thinking. Today I am sure it is more important than ever.

I know full well that you will be the busiest of men, but
I do hope that there will be some opportunity to see you
during the years that you are primarily working in Washington.

I was happy to see that in so many of the articles apropos
your appointment that your name was constantly associated
with the International Seminar. Insofar as Helen and I are
concerned, we wish the Seminar many felicitous years and
will continue to give it our wholehearted support.

With best wishes, I remain

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Sollten Ihre Wege Sie mal wieder nach Afrika fuehren, so wuerden wir uns sehr freuen, Sie hier erneut begruessen zu koennen, andernfalls werde ich Sie gerne, sofern ge- nehm, waehrend meines naechsten Besuches in den USA mal aufsuchen.

Unser aeltester Sohn, den Sie seinerzeit kennengelernt haben, hat vor einigen Jahren seine Position von der Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, nach London zum Bankhaus J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co. Ltd. gewechselt, wo er sehr gluecklich ist.

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Ihr sehr ergebener

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DEC 15 1968

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'S-GRAVENHAGE, december 6, 1968.

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
419, Beacon Street
BOSTON - Mass
U.S.A.

Dear Henry,

Most warmest congratulations with your great nomination as adviser to President Nixon. I am sure that this choice will highly contribute to the success of the future policy of the United States.

Further is it a great pleasure to me to announce you that I just got my nomination as Professor at the Technical Highschool at Delft. I am very happy with the new work that is awaiting me. I shall teach as it is officially called:

"Juridical and economical Aspects of the International Organisations".

In addition I shall certainly also teach the problems concerning the International Company.

Looking forward to meeting you somewhere,

with warmest regards,

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December 10, 1968

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Congratulations! I am so excited to hear that Nixon has appointed you as his special assistant for national security affairs. I'll tell you one thing, knowing that you are in there gives me much more confidence in the new administration. How lucky he is to have a man of your background, views, and contacts working so closely with him. And, how lucky we are as a country.

I will watch with eager anticipation for the strengthening of NATO, the uniting of Western Europe, closer relations between France and West Germany and most importantly, progress in the peace negotiations for Vietnam.

Who will be your secretary? I couldn't help but wonder if I were still working for you if I would have the opportunity. How exciting.

Actually, I am very well settled in San Francisco and loving every minute of my exposure to the city. I have landed a job working as executive secretary/ad-ministrative assistant to the President of a company that develops land on the north shore of Lake Tahoe but our administrative offices are here in the city. It is a young company full of enthusiastic and dynamic people. It is a whole new field for me and I find it a challenge.

When you get settled do let me know what your address will be in Washington. I do hope to stay in touch with you over the years.

Best of luck in your new assignment--no one deserves it more.

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DEAR HENRY I SEND YOU VERY MANY GOOD WISHES AND CONGRATULATIONS

UPON YOUR APPOINTMENT TO THE MOST IMPORTANT OFFICE

IN THE WHITE HOUSE STOP I HOPE WE SHALL HAVE OPPORTUNITIES

OF CONTINUING OUR MANY DISCUSSIONS AND EXCHANGE OF

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DEC 18 1968

Fürth / Bay., den 4.12.1968

Telefon 76611 - Büro
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Dr. HANS BORNKESSEL

Alt OBERBURGERMEISTER
DER STADT FÜRTH
MITGLIED DES BAYER, SENATS

(1947-1967)

Herrn

Henry A. Kissinger
Professor der Harvard Universität

New York USA

Sehr verehrter Herr Professor Kissinger!

Über Rundfunk und durch Presse erhielt ich die Nachricht, daß Sie durch den gewählten Präsidenten Nixon zu seinem ersten Berater in Verteidigungsfragen bestimmt worden sind.

Ich möchte mich beeilen, Ihnen hochverehrter Landsmann zugleich auch im Namen Ihrer vielen vielen Verehrer in Fürth und im fränkisch-nordbayerischen Bereich zu diesem augenscheinlichen Erfolg alles Gute zu wünschen.

Gerne erinnere ich mich noch jenes 14.1.1959, also vor bald 10 Jahren, daß Sie uns in Ihrer Vaterstadt Fürth besuchten und vom gesamten Stadtrat empfangen wurden. Sie haben uns damals mit einer viel beachteten Rede erfreut. Ehe Sie Deutschland verließen, haben Sie damals im Auswärtigen Amt in Bonn eine Aussprache veranstaltet, in der Sie auch auf Ihre Vaterstadt Fürth zu sprechen kamen. Das Auswärtige Amt hat mir daraufhin Mitteilung zukommen lassen und sich bedankt für alle Aufmerksamkeit, die wir Ihnen, lieber Herr Professor erwiesen haben.

Es wäre für die Stadt Fürth eine grosse Freude und hohe Ehre, Sie wieder einmal bei uns begrüssen zu dürfen.

./

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DEC 16 1968

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D. C.

December 12, 1968

CHARLES RAPER JONAS
EIGHTH DISTRICT
NORTH CAROLINA

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Professor Kissinger:

May I join in congratulating you on your appointment as the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs.

While in Law School I had the pleasure of being a member of the National Security Policy Seminar headed by you and by Professor Leach. It was the high point of my three years at the Law School.

If there is any way in which we here in this office can be of any assistance to you in your new capacity, please do not hesitate to call upon either Congressman Jonas or myself. As you may know, Congressman Jonas is on the subcommittee dealing with military construction.

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December 2, 1968

Prof. Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Professor Kissinger:

Please accept my warmest congratulations on your new appointment.
Your selection for this post reflects great credit on your achievements
and ability, as well as on the sound judgement of President-Elect Nixon.

If there is any way in which I could be of assistance to you in
carrying out your heavy responsibilities, beginning immediately or at
any time in the future, I would be delighted to have the opportunity to
do so.

With best wishes,

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HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR APPOINTMENT TO ONE OF THE
REALLY KEY POSITIONS IN THE NEW ADMINISTRATION I CANNOT IMAGINE
ANYONE WHO WOULD BE BETTER QUALIFIED THEN YOURSELF FOR THIS
APPOINTMENT AND I FEEL MUCH BETTER ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE
UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD AS A RESULT OF ITS HAVING BEEN
MADE. HOPE TO SEE YOU BEFORE LONG BEST WISHES

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BRITISH EMBASSY
WASHINGTON, D. C.

4 December 1968

You may remember that we met a number of times in London and Cambridge when I was attached to Alun Chalfont in the Foreign Office. May I be somewhere in the line to congratulate you on your very exciting appointment.

I have been here in the Embassy for the past year, and you may imagine that there are several people here who would be extremely interested to touch base with you before long; so for that matter should I myself. Is there any chance of my dragging you off to lunch with one or two of them during any flying visit you may be making to Washington in the next few weeks? Or would there be a chance of a talk when you are in New York - or even in Cambridge? I do not want to rush you, as you will obviously be busier than usual these days if that were possible; but there are plenty of important topics that we at any rate would find it extremely useful to go over with you.

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger,
Center for International Relations,
Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass.

DEC 9

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Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Harvard University
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Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Henry:

May I say how pleased I was to read in today's NEW YORK TIMES of
your appointment as President-elect Nixon's assistant for National
Security Affairs. This is a great tribute and recognition of your
outstanding capability in foreign affairs. I wish you every
success in this new and challenging assignment.

Personally, I feel most encouraged about your appointment for if
it is a forerunner of the caliber of individuals that the President-
elect is going to bring into his administration, I think that the
country's innumerable problems will be reviewed with imagination
and perspective, rather than merely settling for expedient solutions.

I would imagine that your new role will consume the greater part
of your time, but I do hope we will have an opportunity to see
one another occasionally if only briefly.

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