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Address by
Henry A. Kissinger
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Annual Dinner of the Washington Press Club
The Sheraton Park Hotel

January 26, 1972

Mme. Chairman, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen:

When I accepted this invitation, I was told that the speakers
would appear in protocol order -- in other words, I would precede
Senator Church. I then learned that Senator Church had asked for
the order to be reversed, and I was glad to oblige. Now that I think
of it, Senator Church and the Democratic caucus were probably
making an experiment: they wanted to see whether a man who has
been assassinated can commit suicide.

I am happy to share this occasion with my old friend, Senator
Church. We have long been on a first-name basis. He calls me Henry;
I call him Cooper.

This dinner is in honor of the Congress. They deserve it.
The entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate are
running this year . . . and that is only for the Presidency.

As you know, I have been a somewhat controversial character
lately. An example of what I have endured is a remark by Gloria
Steinem reported in LIFE this week. She is quoted as having said

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that she is not now and never has been a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.

But I am not discouraged -- after all, she did not say that if nominated she would not accept or if elected, she would not serve.

I would like to put the following comment under some restrictions because it concerns internal debates within this Administration and you know how jealously we guard them. Since I have failed with the Lindley Rule, I would like to apply the Kissinger rule.

In the light of recent controversies, let me now answer those questions that the press, in its sense of decorum and delicacy, has always been reluctant to ask.

First, a question that I ask myself just before retiring every night, as I look under the bed: "Is someone trying to get me?"

There have been a lot of stories to the effect that I have enemies who are out to undermine me. Nothing could be further from the truth. Secretary Laird, for example, has assured me that his confidence in me is unbounded. As evidence of that, he has recommended that I go along on the first space shuttle. In fact, he has promised me that if I accept he will urge the President to let the shuttle stay in orbit an extra month.

As for my relations with the Secretary of State, they can be best summed up by a conversation a couple of days ago. We attended

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a meeting in the Situation Room. After it concluded, I suggested that we continue the discussion in the White House Mess. Bill said, "Fine, but before we go to your office, couldn't we get a bite to eat?"

So, you see, relations within the Administration could not be better. It is true that no one without a touch of paranoia was ever appointed to the Harvard faculty. No doubt this accounts for the fact that the other day when a colleague said, "Don't worry, Henry, I am right behind you," I considered it the scariest thing I had heard all week.

Am I planning to resign? I noticed that a Sunday newspaper reported that I might do something dramatic at this dinner like announcing my resignation. It is true I have been getting kicked around lately. And it is natural that some of you will wonder what life will be like when you won't have me to kick around anymore. But I could not leave before such a small audience. After all, there are twenty-thousand people in the State Department alone who want to be there for *that* occasion.

How do I feel about secrecy in government? I am convinced that a top secret clearance is not enough -- in order to see documents, a person must have a clear need to know. Of course, a columnist with 700 papers in his syndicate needs to know.

If I could not be Henry Kissinger, whom would I like to be?

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I have often wondered what it would be like to come to
meetings of the National Security Council in dark glasses and in
tennis shoes.

And I would like to hold all my briefings over the long-distance
telephone. If I didn't like the way it turned out -- then it wasn't me
on the other end of the line.

But it's only a dream. If any blonde shows up at my bank
claiming to be Helga Kissinger, she's welcome to what's in the
account.

And now, turning to China, let me put recent events into
perspective.

Our advance party will soon be leaving, headed by Bebe Rebozo
who has the problem of getting his houseboat up the Yangtze River.

We have already reached a compromise on the main course to
be served at the first official dinner: cottage cheese with soy sauce.

The Chinese have been meticulous hosts. As you know, most
Chinese carry a little book of the sayings of Chairman Mao. But Peking
has overlooked nothing to make us feel at home. It will be quite an
event to see 100,000 Chinese waving their copies of *Six Crises*.

The CIA -- those initials stand for "Creepers, It's Anderson" --
has supplied us with the minutes of a meeting of the Peking Special Action
Group. It reads as follows: "All Americans look alike. So here is a

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guide to identify the principals. The man who looks like our dear ally, Foreign Minister Gromyko, is President Nixon. The man who, when unobserved, mumbles "Let me at Joe Alsop" is Secretary Rogers. Dr. Kissinger is the one who asks all the questions about the methods we used to frighten the bureaucracy during the Cultural Revolution."

Let me conclude on a less frivolous note. I have had the honor of serving three Presidents. And I know that whatever their differences each wanted to leave the country and the world better than how he found it. Soon this President will be embarking on a series of journeys which we fervently hope will mark a milestone in the road to peace. And when the voice of controversy has stilled, all that will matter will be whether what was done made a difference, whether it marked an episode or an epoch.

We are clearly living through one of the most difficult periods of our history. Some say we are divided over Vietnam; others blame domestic discord. But I believe the cause of our anguish is deeper. Throughout our history, we believed that effort was its own reward. Partly because so much as been achieved here in America, we have tended to suppose that every problem must have a solution, and that good intentions should somehow guarantee good results. Utopia was seen not as a dream, but as our logical destination if we only traveled

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the right road. Our generation is the first to have found that the
road is endless, that in traveling it we will find not Utopia but only
ourselves. The realization of our essential loneliness accounts
for so much of the frustration and the rage of our time.

In a world in which there has never been more talk and never
less dialogue, nothing is more important than to raise our debates
from motives to issues. As we regain our trust in each other, the
important can again replace the urgent in our concerns. So beyond
all the hoopla and drama of Presidential trips, beyond the exegesis
of communiques and speeches, we are on the quest for a peace deeper
than the absence of war among nations -- something expressed in the
Maxims of La Rochefoucauld. "When man finds no peace within
himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

The second meeting dealt with international affairs. Dr. Kissinger stated that the President's policy was based on the hope of an era of negotiation rather than confrontation. The Prime Minister expressed his appreciation for this lucid exposition which alone justified the trip to Peking. He then recalled the famous saying about American imperialism and its running dogs. Dr. Kissinger replied that he had always wondered what it was about running dogs to which the Chinese Communists objected so strongly and he was glad to ask it at first hadd.

At this point there was an exchange of gifts both of which were ticking loudly. Dr. Kissinger turned his over to the State Department. representative who has not been seen since. The Prime Minister followed the traditional Chinese practice of showing appreciation by submerging his gift in a jade bowl filled with rose water.

WASHINGTON PRESS CLUB
"SALUTE TO CONGRESS"
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1972

HEAD TABLE GUESTS

(left to right)

Rep. Gerald R. Ford, House Minority Leader

Mrs. Hugh Scott

Senator Robert C. Byrd, Senate Majority Whip

Mrs. Hale Boggs

Senator Hugh Scott, Senate Minority Leader

Mrs. Robert Griffin

Speaker of the House, Carl Albert

Mrs. Mike Mansfield

Senator Frank Church of Idaho

Mrs. Vera Glaser of Knight Newspapers, Inc.,
President, Washington Press Club

PODIUM

Mrs. Florence Lowe, National Endowment for the Arts,
Co-Chairwoman, Congressional Dinner

Dr. Henry Kissinger, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Miss Nancy Ball, Newsweek Magazine, Co-Chairwoman, Congressional Dinner

Senator Mike Mansfield, Senate Majority Leader

Mrs. Carl Albert

Senator Robert P. Griffin, Senate Minority Whip

Mrs. Robert Byrd

Mrs. Gerald Ford

Rep. Hale Boggs, House Majority Leader

Mrs. Frank Church

Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., House Majority Whip

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THE WASHINGTON PRESS CLUB
"SALUTE TO CONGRESS"

Wednesday, January 26, 1972

"THE FOUR KUMQUATS"

The quartet of four members of The Washington Press Club sings "We are Chinese," with their original lyrics. The music is from "The Siamese Cat Song" from Walt Disney's "Lady Is A Tramp."

THE KUMQUATS:

William W. Broom, Washington Bureau Chief, Ridder Publications
Lynn Langway, Chicago Daily News
Nan Robertson, The New York Times
Ronald Sarro, Washington Star

Lyrics to "WE ARE CHINESE"

We are Chi-nese if you please
We are Chi-nese if you don't please
We are greeting Kissinger with some alarm
Why he bring Bill Rogers 'sted of Jill St. John?

Dragon Lady sulking back at Watergate
Fortune cookie crumbled up upon her plate
The secret to Jack Anderson will not be spilt
If you join us in a little game of Tilt!

You say you having date set up with Chairman Mao
We don't think you'll see the Chairman anyhow
He abdicating chairmanship to man he choose
Our new Leader fella name of Howard Hughes!

When we coming visit you in Washington
Nixon take us football game: meet George Allen
If we don't get best seat at San Souci for Lunch
Boy, we gonna give you such an ACUPUNCH!

Mr. Nixon, you'll be missing your campagin
While you fly to China on your aeroplane
But if a T.V. camera is within your reach
You can always send back Chinese Checkers speech!

We are Chi-nese if you please
We are Chi-nese if you don't please
When you get back home they will pull out the rug
White House been usurped ... by Bella Abzug!

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## REPRESENTATIVES Cont'd

Rep. & Mrs. Schwengel, Fred (Iowa)

Rep. & Mrs. Stratton, Samuel S. (N.Y)

Rep. Sullivan, Leonor K. (Mo)

Rep. Symington, James W. (Mo)

Rep. & Mrs. Thompson, Frank, Jr. (N.J)

Rep. & Mrs. Van Deerlin, Lionel (Calif)

Rep. & Mrs. White, Richard C. (Tex)

Rep. Wright, James C., Jr. (Tex)

Rep. & Mrs. Yates, Sidney R. (Ill)

## FORMER SENATOR

Sen. & Mrs. Monroney, Mike

## DIPLOMATIC AND OTHERS

The Ambassador of Israel and Mrs. Rabin

The Ambassador of Italy and Mrs. Ortona

The Ambassador of Japan and Mrs. Ushiba

The Ambassador of Korea and Mrs. Kim

The Ambassador of Mexico and Mrs. de Olloqui

The Ambassador of Spain and Mrs. Arguelles

The Ambassador of Sweden and Mrs. de Besche

The Ambassador of Switzerland and Mrs. Schnyder

The United States Ambassador to India Kenneth Keating

## ADMINISTRATION AND OTHERS

Chairman FCC and Mrs. Dean Burch

Chairman, Federal Reserve Board and Mrs. Arthur Burns

Secretary of Agriculture Earl I. Butz

Special Counsel to the President and Mrs. Charles W. Colson

Special Assistant to the President Eugene S. Cowen

Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Wallace Edgerton

Science Advisor to the President Dr. and Mrs. Edward E. David, Jr.

Assistant to the President and Mrs. John Ehrlichman

Special Assistant to the President and Mrs. Michael Farrell

Assistant to the President and Mrs. Peter M. Flanigan

Assistant to the President and Mrs. H.R. Haldeman

Chairman National Endowment for the Arts Nancy Hanks

Agency for International Development Administrator and

Mrs. John A. Hannah

Secretary of Labor and Mrs. James Hodgson

Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Le S. Jenkins

Director Asian Communism Affairs of the Department of State

Under Secretary for Political Affairs and Mrs. U. Alexis Johnson

Assistant to the President Dr. Henry Kissinger

Director of Communications for the Executive Branch and

Mrs. Herbert G. Klein

Deputy Attorney General and Mrs. Richard G. Kleindienst

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ADMINISTRATION AND OTHERS Cont'd

Special Assistant to the President (Consumer Affairs),
Mrs. Virginia H. Knauer

Secretary of Defense and Mrs. Melvin Laird
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Commissioner, Office of Education Dr. Sidney P. Marland, Jr.
Perle Mesta

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral and Mrs. Thomas H. Moorer
Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs,
Peter Peterson

FCC Commissioner Charlotte Reid

Secretary of House and Urban Development and Mrs. George Romney
Administrator Environmental Protection Agency and

Mrs. William D. Ruckelshaus

Former Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder
Assistant Press Secretary Helen Smith

Secretary of Commerce and Mrs. Maurice H. Stans

Deputy Chairman National Endowment for the Arts Michael Straight
Staff Director to Mrs. Nixon Constance Stuart

Physician to the President Brig. General Walter R. Tkach, USAF

Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality and Mrs. Russell Train
Mayor and Mrs. Walter Washington

General Counsel, FCC and Mrs. Richard Wiley

Social Secretary to the White House Lucy Winchester

Personal Secretary to the President Rose Mary Woods

Press Secretary to the President and Mrs. Ronald Ziegler

Col. Alfred Schoepper, Director of United States Marine Band

Flowers by Peacock Creations, Sheraton-Park Hotel

.transcript)

"SALUTE TO CONGRESS"

Washington Press Club

Wednesday, January 26, 1972

Sheraton Park Hotel

Washington, D.C.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome. I'm Vera Claser of the Knight Newspapers, president of the Washington Press Club. Tonight we celebrate this Club's "Salute to Congress" for the 23rd consecutive year.

We are honored to have you with us, as we greet the leaders of the Senate and House in the 92nd Congress, and our distinguished head table guests:

The Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, the Honorable Gerald R. Ford of Michigan

Mrs. Hugh Scott

The Majority Whip of the United States Senate, the Honorable Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia

Mrs. Hale Boggs

The Minority Leader of the United States Senate, the Honorable Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania

Mrs. Robert Griffin

The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Honorable Carl Albert of Oklahoma

Mrs. Mike Mansfield

The senior Senator from Idaho, the Honorable Frank Church

The co-chairwoman of the "Salute to Congress" dinner, Florence Lowe of the National Endowment for the Arts

The assistant to the President for national security affairs, the Honorable Henry Kissinger

The co-chairwoman of the "Salute to Congress" dinner, Newsweek's Nancy Ball

The Majority Leader of the United States Senate, the Honorable Mike Mansfield of Montana

Mrs. Carl Albert

The Minority Whip of the United States Senate, the Honorable Robert P. Griffin of Michigan

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Mrs. Frank Church

Mrs. Gerald Ford

The Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives,
the Honorable Hale Boggs of Louisiana.

Ladies and gentlemen, will you remain standing for our national
anthem.

(played by United States Marine Band)

Guests seated.

Ladies and gentlemen, in a few weeks a United States President
will make a historic journey to mainland China. Since the capacity
of Air Force One -- or, as we call it now, the Spirit of '76 -- is
limited, and some of us must stay home, we bring you this evening
the next best thing,

"A night in Peking!"

We will dine on the honorable and festive foods of China.

We will hear wisdom from the immortals of White House and Capitol Hill.

The Chinese ceremonial lion will move among us to bring good
luck and ward off evil spirits.

And now, we hope all you scrutable occidentals enjoy your
dinner. We'll be back.

(Chinese lion, exploding firecrackers, with drums and cymbals,
passes along head table and back. Guests throw flowers and leaves.)

(Dinner finished.)

New faces have appeared on Capitol Hill this year in the wake
of special elections for House and Senate. Let's give a warm welcome
to the new members here tonight.

From Vermont -- a new United States Senator, the Honorable
Robert T. Stafford.

From Pennsylvania's 18th district - a new Congressman, the
Honorable John Heinz III.

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From Kentucky's sixth district - the Honorable William P. Curlin.

From Vermont's First Congressional district - the Honorable Richard Mallary.

We also salute the Washington Press Club's bravest member, the one who invited Jack Anderson to this dinner. For personal security reasons I won't name her.

Jack can't be here because he is speaking in New York, but he sent his xerox machine, should any official guest here care to make a contribution.

We take you now behind the bamboo curtain. The cultural revolution in China pales beside the explosion of new talent in the Washington Press Club. Here is a sample of what happens when members of the capitalist news media let themselves go oriental. They are William Broom, Washington Bureau Chief of Ridder Publications; Lynn Langway of the Chicago Daily News; Nan Robertson of The New York Times; and Ronald Sarro of the Washington Star.

Ladies and gentlemen, "The Four Kumquats!"

(Kumquats sing "We Are Chinese")

The butterflies you see overhead are the Chinese symbol of love and happiness. The nearest we come to that in America is the dove.

With us tonight is the original dove, the Honorable Frank Church of Idaho. We are especially privileged to have him because he is one of the few doves who is not heading south tonight to the Florida primary.

Frank Church is No. 4 on the Foreign Relations Committee, and No. 2 on Richard Nixon's ..... list, right behind that well-known Rhodes scholar from Arkansas.

Senator Church looks like Mr. Clean, but he has administered the ancient Chinese water torture to two Presidents on Vietnam.

Recently, after communing with his ancestors, the Senator shook the great wall of the liberal community by coming out against foreign aid. It was the biggest switch since Nixon traded his Goldwater buttons for an autographed picture of Mao Tse-tung swimming in the Yangtze.

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When I boned up on the Senator's past, I learned that in World
War II, as a young lieutenant in military intelligence, Frank Church
was commended by - you should pardon the expression - Chiang Kai-shek's
combat command. Since then Chiang has become a no-no and we're told
he blames Church for losing his lease on mainland China.

But it's nice to know the Senator and President Nixon agree on
some things. Both are ardent believers in the separation of Church
and State.

And both say the way our foreign policy is going these days,
Red China may be the only pal we have left in the world.

Tell us, Senator, is this trip necessary?

(Church speaks. Insert complete text.)

Thank you, Senator.

As Senator Church has acknowledged, Henry Kissinger will be
enshrined in history as the folk hero who took the word "tilt"
out of pinball machines and moved it into the White House situation
room.

Until recently Dr. Kissinger was an official source whose name
had to be unprintable. Then Senator Barry Goldwater blew Henry's
cover by putting one of his briefings into the Congressional Record.
Overnight Dr. Kissinger became the town's biggest tourist attraction
and the White House gave thought to unleashing the Berrigansto
finish their kidnap job.

We are privileged to have this versatile son of Harvard here.
He wears his many titles like Carol Channing wears diamonds ...
playboy of the western wing ... the Rasputin of 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue ... junior Metternich ... drum major of the Prussian guard ...
the sex symbol of the Nixon Administration.

Who else could have left Washington without his Di-Cel, had
a stomach ache in Karachi, then downed a 26-course duck dinner in
Peking with Chou En-lai? Who else could have gone to Paris 12
times in search of peace, and made it back home in time to help us
decode our fortune cookies?

Henry, I am getting hell every half hour from the President
for not asking you this question at your briefings, so here it is:

Tell us, Dr. Kissinger, will they swing in Peking?

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(Kissinger speaks. Insert text.)

(Standing ovation for Kissinger.)

Thank you, Dr. Kissinger.

As we conclude this portion of our "Night in Peking," may I ask
the co-chairwomen of this dinner to rise and be recognized. For a
memorable evening, our thanks go to Nancy Ball of Newsweek, and Florence
Lowe of the National Endowment for the Arts, and their magnificent
committee.

And now, to the leaders of the 92nd Congress and their wives,
to our speakers, and to all of you who have honored us with your
presence tonight ... Please stay a while for dancing in the Park
Room to your left ... and from the Washington Press Club, thank you.

(gong)

News Release from
# FRANK CHURCH

## U.S. SENATOR, IDAHO

FOR RELEASE AFTER 9:30 P.M. EST

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1972

WASHINGTON, January 26 -- Following is the text of remarks by Senator Frank Church at the annual "Salute to Congress" dinner of the Washington Press Club:

Madame Chairman, and other devotees of Chinese checkers; Daniel Schorr, and other aspirants to high public office; Richard Kleindienst, and other recipients of Comic Book Awards for 1972; Henry Kissinger, and other character witnesses for Father Berrigan; Ladies and Gentlemen:

Well, the President really pulled the rug out last night. Not only have I had to rewrite my speech, but Henry Kissinger's reputation as a swinger has been left in shambles. Thirteen trips to Paris, Henry, and just for Le Duc Tho?

But it's good to see you here, Henry, though I barely recognized you without your cloak of Executive Privilege!

Now, just to get off on the right foot, Vera, which of Henry's trips to China are we talking about?

Not the bad-stomach trip?

Oh, I see, the one that's coming up -- the one the President's going on, too.

Well, I do need to be sure. After all, Henry Kissinger has already been to China twice. Recently, Ron Ziegler went over. Next week, I understand, Ehrlichman and Haldeman are going. Frankly, I'm worried. The last time so many Germans went into a country, World War II broke out!

Actually, we're lucky Henry could be with us tonight, what with everybody boning up on China.

President Nixon is boning up -- studying the Chinese position.

Bebe Rebozo is studying Chinese real estate, figuring out ways to subdivide China.

Henry is studying the Peking phonebook for out-of-the-way Holiday Inns.

Even Spiro Agnew has been eating fortune cookies -- ten pounds a day -- looking for the one that will tell him he'll be on the ticket, again!

Nonetheless, on balance, I do think this trip is necessary. I admit, we've always had somebody mad at us, but this is the first time I can recall when we've had everybody mad at us. So I say, if the Chinese are willing to talk, let's talk. We've got to make a friend somewhere!

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Why it's getting so we can't even give away our foreign aid.

Western Europe won't take it, at least, not with those cut-rate Nixon
dollars.

Japan won't take it. She's just instituted a foreign aid program of
her own -- for Seattle.

Even our old teammate, Pakistan, won't play anymore. All season,
as you know, President Nixon has been sending in special plays. They lost
George Allen 13 yards; Don Shula, the Super Bowl; and Yahya Khan, East
Pakistan.

It's lucky for the Chinese that the President didn't play ping pong at
Whittier College!

No doubt about it, Henry, our foreign aid is in big trouble.....
A-I-D, our Agency for Instigating Disasters -- up on the Hill, we call it
"Waterloo West" -- AID is in serious danger of shutting down.

So, as I see it, Henry, you've got to take our problem to Peking.
Throw yourself on Mao's mercy. Remind him we have the highest standard
of giving in the world. Think of it, with 800-million Chinese, we can really
go for broke!

For openers, we'll tear down the Great Wall, and replace it with a
solid American chain-link fence.

To span the Yangtze, we'll send them the Three-Sisters Bridge,
along with its foreman, Bill Natcher.

While we're at it, let's send them that cement-mixer-run-amuck.....
the Army Corps of Engineers. They can busy themselves forever in China,
and we can save what's left of the United States!

Most important of all, we can reinstate our military aid program.
We haven't had a chance like that since the early days of Chiang Kai-chek!
The Red Chinese army added to our Foreign Legions! What a break for the
free world!

Maybe, Anna Chenault could get them to buy some of our Phantom
jets -- or, better yet, some of our real ones. Don't sell Anna short! When
you consider how far she's taken Taiwan, think what she could do with the
Mainland account!

Well, the President must have other reasons for going to Peking
besides salvaging our foreign aid program. But I'm just a member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee. All we know about those top secret
meetings at the White House is what we read in the daily print-outs in Jack
Anderson's column, now known as Hi-Jack Anderson's column.

There've been so many leaks at the White House lately, that Henry's
appealed for flood control!

If you've been studying those fascinating quotes of Henry's, you, too,
have caught a glimpse of the Big Picture which is about to unfold -- a demand-
ing new role for the United States that will prove to all the doubters that our
country is not "a pitiful, helpless giant." President Nixon journeys to Peking
to set the stage for our new Asian policy of the '70's -- the Containment of
India!

Well, who could expect a Republican Administration to get along with
a democratic country like India, anyhow?

Naturally, the President was the first to perceive the true menace of
India; he didn't intend to let them put down the Faks. He told Henry to ask the
Pentagon's computer what to do. But the computer wouldn't answer, it kept
relying with the same four-letter word, "TILT!"

The cheek of those Indians, intervening in a civil war in Asia -- and
winning it!

But the worst part is the gloating. The Indians have recast that great
old Tyrone Power movie; they've renamed it "Lives of a Bangladesh Lancer,"
starring Ken Keating and Indira Gandhi.

Well, we've heard enough -- enough from "that woman" and her
Ambassador in Washington, Mr. Jha, who's been told to keep quiet. It's the
first application of the "Lock-Jha Doctrine."

Anyway, here's the game plan to be worked out in Peking. China will
hold back the Indians on their North. We'll re-arm the Faks -- for the third
time -- to hold back the Indians on the West. On the East, somebody will have
to hold Ted Kennedy back in Massachusetts. On the South, the American Navy
will occupy the Indian Ocean, which we are now buying from the British.

To protect the Indian Ocean from the Indians will require a brand new
fleet. The Eighth Fleet! We'll be the only nation in history that built eight
fleets to rule the Seven Seas!

Henry, as you well know, despite the best-laid plans, there are always
risks involved. But, come what may, there's one consolation. If this trip
turns out to be a bust, you'll know how to handle it!

But enough!

A fateful trip is about to be taken and a few serious words should be
spoken.

I have always felt that the United States has a vital interest in the
Pacific, the widest moat God placed on this planet. But I have never felt that
the mainland of Asia was either a suitable or sensible hunting ground for our
country.

We don't have to draw the map of Asia. It isn't within our power to
control the politics of Asia. We can take Asian nations as they come, and we
have no need for unfriendly relations with any of them.

But we do have a great need to commence to thaw out the glacial
enmity which -- for a whole generation -- has frozen into place our non-relations
with China.

In that undertaking, we Democrats offer our full support. And to the
President of the United States, about to embark upon this historic quest, we
extend our best wishes and our earnest hopes for success.

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# Toast at Henry Brandon's Dinner for John and Catherine Freeman

## January 8, 1971

There is the story of the Britisher who visited Sweden and in going through customs found himself confronted by two lines, one marked for Swedes, the other for foreigners. After a while an inspector came by and found the Britisher sitting squarely in the middle. He said: "Sir, would you kindly move into one line or the other." The Britisher replied: "That is just my trouble. I am not a Swede and I am obviously not a foreigner."

The story could serve as the theme of tonight's honored guests. We are not so presumptuous as to claim John and Catherine Freeman as Americans; but we emphatically agree to the proposition that they are not foreigners. They came here under the most incredibly adverse circumstances. John was clearly not the most obvious choice for *this* Administration. In less than two years, they have become part of our lives. Something of us will leave with them.

How is one to explain the extraordinary impact of a British radical on a Republican Administration? Why do we feel that Washington will become so much lonelier with the parting of John and Catherine?

John was British Ambassador during one of the most difficult periods in our history. Some say we are divided over Vietnam; others blame the environment or race. I believe that the cause of our anguish

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is deeper and more intangible. All through our history we have believed
that while struggle was inevitable, effort was its own reward. We have
had a deep faith that good intentions were an assurance of a good out-
come. Utopia was not a dream for us but the end of a road. Our
generation is the first to have found that the road has no end, that it
may not lead anywhere, that in travelling it we will find not Utopia but
only ourselves. The realization of our essential loneliness accounts
for so much of the frustration, the bitterness, the rage of our time.

And this is why John has been so important to us all. Not by
words but by his action he has shown to us that our solitude while stern
can be beautiful. In a world where there has never been more talk and
never less dialogue, he has proved by his bearing that the peace we seek
must begin within us. He has demonstrated that compassion is more
profound than righteousness, that humaneness is something other than
sentimentality, that true love of man does not deny reality but transcends
it. We have been moved by John though he is the most reticent of men --
in his two years here I have had only one brief personal word with him
and that last week when he visited me in San Clemente. He inspired by
his diffident passion and his shy, almost inarticulate persuasiveness;
his is a triumph of rectitude.

And so it seems to me that only the formal part of John's embassy
is ending next week. As long as we are here, we shall ask ourselves

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at crucial junctures: "What will the Freemans think?" And while we
cannot guarantee the validity of the answer, the question will lift us
from the urgent to the important. It may give us the moment's pause
that our souls need to catch up in the frenzy of everyday activity.

This is what I want to say personally to my friends John and
Catherine.

But there is, too, an official part to this evening. Yesterday
the President asked me what I would do this weekend. I said that I
planned to visit Washington for a dinner. "With the Georgetown set?"
he asked dubiously. When I indicated it was for John and Catherine he
brightened noticeably. Just before I left this morning he called me
into his office and handed me this letter:

Dear Mr. Ambassador;

Mrs. Nixon joins me in conveying to you and Mrs. Freeman our genuine sense of loss at your departure from this country.

You have truly been an Ambassador extraordinary.
Our natural relationship which the Prime Minister
described on his recent visit has prospered during
your stay in no small measure due to your sharp
perception of the American scene and your forthright
presentation of British views. To your professional
skills you have added a personal dimension that has
won you both respect and affection.

With your diplomatic qualities you have deepened the
ties between our countries. With your human qualities

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you have enriched the lives of those who have known
you.

America and Americans will miss you.

/s/ Richard Nixon

There now remains only to propose a toast: John and
Catherine -- may your lives be as rich as you have made ours.

And selfishly: may the frequency of our meetings bear some relationship to the frequency with which we shall think of you.

THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

1/27/72

Julie:

Mr. Kissinger wants to send a note to
Dick Moore, Herb Klein and Bill Safire
thanking them for their help in making
his speech last night so successful.

D.

THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

January 27, 1972

MEMORANDUM FOR DR. HENRY KISSINGER

FROM: HERBERT G. KLEIN

Congratulations! I think Senator Cooper, or is it Church (?), was excellent, but you clearly topped him.

I would like particularly to commend you upon your timing with the jokes -- it helped greatly in making them effective, as you know.

-5-

Partly because so much has been achieved here in America, we have tended to suppose that every problem must have a solution, and that good intentions should somehow guarantee good results. Utopia was seen not as a dream, but as our logical destination if we only traveled the right road. Our generation is the first to have found that the road is endless, that in traveling we will find not Utopia but only ourselves. The realization of our essential loneliness accounts for so much of the frustration and the rage of our time.

In a world in which there has never been more talk and never less dialogue, nothing is more important than to raise our debates from motives to issues. As we concentrate on hopes rather than dreams, the important can again replace the pressing. So beyond all the hoopla and drama of Presidential trips, beyond the exegesis of communiques and speeches, we are on the quest for a peace deeper than the absence of war among nations -- something expressed in the Maxims of La Rochefoucauld. "When man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

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THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

January 26, 1972

Mr. Kissinger:

Dick Moore phoned the following one-liner from
the airport:

"One of the things that concerned me at first was how could I leave town so often without being missed. However, I phoned an expert for advice and found it was very easy -- Mayor Lindsay was really nice about it."

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MEMORANDUM

THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

January 26, 1972

MEMORANDUM FOR DR. KISSINGER

FROM: DICK MOORE
SUBJECT: Additional remarks

There was one regrettable aspect of the trip. I always dealt entirely with the North Vietnamese. I never had the time or the opportunity to make any "French Connections".

One thing about this trip: If I were a man who had any degree of ego, I think my feelings would have been hurt. After all, I left Washington on secret trips to Paris a dozen time -- none of your ladies of the press ever missed me.

Now that everyone is having his papers published, I'd been hoping that one of these days someone would want to publish a book of the Kissinger Papers. Finally this morning I did get a telegram from a publisher who wants to bring a book out next month. There was a typo in the telegram, however. It says he wants to do a book on the Kissinger Papers.

[Y]

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I was asked at the Press Conference today whether I have made any secret trips to Hanoi. I have not. In view of some of the other headlines in the press nowdays, perhaps I should point out that I have made no secret trips to Zurich, Switzerland either.
(And I never met a blonde named Helga Hughes.)

***

I was always fearful I would run into an American who would recognize me. As a matter of fact I did meet one very prominent American at the airport on three different trips, but he didn't break my cover. I will always be grateful to Sam Yorty for that.

[N]

THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

January 24, 1972

MEMORANDUM FOR DR. KISSINGER

FROM: DICK MOORE

The attached were done rather quickly.
If you would like anything further,
please call on me.

[Y]

I was flattered by the attention I received
in Life Magazine this week. However, the story is completely
inaccurate. The correct facts will be contained in my
authorized autobiography which will shortly be published.
The first draft is now being completed by my collaborator,
the distinguished free-lance writer, Mr. Clifford Irving.

***

I was sorry to read that Gloria Steinem says
she is not now and never has been a girl friend of Henry
Kissinger. However, I am not discouraged -- she didn't
say that if nominated she would not accept, or if elected
she would not serve.

***

I don't mind being called a secret swinger.
What does bother me is swinging secrets.

***

On this whole question of security, I can now
reveal that I have had a long and secret meeting (or phone
conversation) with the world's leading authority on security
procedures. You will be glad to know that my meeting with
Mr. Hughes was most cordial and productive. There is no
doubt that the man I was talking to was Howard Hughes --
I could tell by the personal questions he asked me.

***

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The President insists that there be a new
situation in the Situation Room.

* * *

It is a very serious thing when security leaks
embarrass our government or embarrass our allies. But
when they embarrass the President's Assistant For National
Security Affairs, that's time to call a halt.

* * *

On my recommendation the President has decided
to establish an Authenticity Review Board, to establish
the authenticity of secret documents. Henceforth, no
document that comes into your hands can be considered to
be authentic unless it is so certified by the Board
Chairman, who will be Mr. Harold J. McGraw, Jr., the
former President of McGraw-Hill.

* * *

The excellent "giving me hell" joke might be
introduced this way: I was hoping to give you a long
and detailed briefing on foreign policy, but unfortunately
I have to be back at my desk in a half hour. As you know,
the President is giving me hell every thirty minutes.

* * *

["[4]", "-5-", "that good intentions were the guarantee of a good outcome. For us every\nproblem had a solution. Utopia was not a dream for us but the end of the\nroad. Our generation is the first to have found that the road is endless,\nthat in traveling we will find not Utopia but only ourselves. The realization\nof our essential loneliness accounts for so much of the frustration and the\nrage of our time.", "In a world in which there has never been more talk and never\nless dialogue, nothing is more important than to raise our debates from\nmotives to issues. As we regain some faith in the possibility of great\nachievement, the important can again replace the urgent. So beyond all the\nhoopla and drama of Presidential trips, beyond the exegesis of communiques\nand speeches, we are on the quest for a peace deeper than the absence of\nwar among nations -- something expressed in the Maxims of La Rochefoucauld.\n"When man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.\""]

The Chinese have been meticulous hosts. As you know, most
Chinese carry a little book of the sayings of Chairman Mao. But
Peking has overlooked nothing to make us feel at home. It will be
quite an event to see 100 thousand Chinese waving their copies of
<u>Six Crises.</u>

I would like to put away all the rumors you people have created about Bill Rogers and me. Today we had a meeting with the President. After the meeting was over I suggested that Bill and I could continue our discussion. I said let's go downstairs to the White House Mess. Bill said fine, Henry, but before we go down to your office couldn't we get something to eat first.

All day long I have been answering questions about the secret trips to Paris. The one that comes up most frequently is one I find impossible to answer satisfactorily: "How come you didn't bring back any perfume for me?"

Now everybody knows the truth about my illicit weekends. The
President's speech last night may have helped his credibility as a
statesman, but it destroyed my credibility as a swinger.

MEMORANDUM

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

January 26, 1972

MEMORANDUM FOR MR. KISSINGER

FROM: Dianne Matthews
SUBJECT: Women's Press Club Dinner, This Evening

As you know, the theme of the evening is "Salute to Congress" with a Chinese New Year flavor. Cocktails begin at 7:00, dinner at 8:00 p.m. You should go to the main entrance to the Sheraton-Park Hotel on Woodley Road where you will be met by Miss Thomas. The dress is black tie. (During the first part of the evening a Chinese dragon will circulate through the room and firecrackers will go off. It's not an attack -- don't grab your agent and run!)

The seating at the head table, from left to right, will be as follows: Cong. Gerald Ford, Mrs. Hugh Scott, Sen. Robt. Byrd, Mrs. Hale Boggs, Sen. Hugh Scott, Mrs. Robt. Griffin, Speaker Carl Albert, Mrs. Mike Mansfield, Sen. Frank Church, Mrs. Vera Glasser, Florence Lowe (co-chairman of the dinner), you, Nancy Ball, Sen. Mike Mansfield, Mrs. Carl Albert, Sen. Robert Griffin, Mrs. Robt. Byrd, Mrs. Gerald Ford, Cong. Hale Boggs.

Others at the dinner tonight will be: Mr. Haldeman, Mr. Ehrlichman, Mr. Shultz, Mr. Klein, Ron Zeigler, Dr. Tkash, Secy. Laird, the Attorney General, and Gen. Haig.

Your remarks will follow Sen. Church's, after the dinner. They will be recorded by the National Public Radio to be played on the networks listed at Tab A at 11:00 a.m. EST tomorrow.

Mme. Chairman, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen:

When I accepted this invitation I did so with the intention of
presenting a full briefing on the infallibility of this Administration's conduct
of foreign policy. Unfortunately there is not time. I must be back at the
White House in thirty minutes. As you know, the President is giving me
hell every half hour.

I am happy to share this occasion with my old friend Senator Church.
We have long been on a first name basis. He calls me Henry; I call him
Cooper.

This dinner is in honor of the Congress. They deserve it. The
entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate are running this
year. . . and that is only for the Presidency.

As you know, I have been a somewhat controversial character lately.
An example of what I have endured is a remark by Gloria Steinem reported
in LIFE this week. She is quoted as having said that she is not now and
never has been a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger. But I am not discouraged --
after all, she did not say that if nominated she would not accept or if elected,
she would not serve.

I would like to put the following comment under some restrictions
because it concerns internal debates which this Administration and you know
how jealously we guard them. Since I have failed with the Lindley Rule I would
like to apply the Kissinger rule.

I would like to tell you that I was violently opposed to the President giving that speech last night. But I was overruled. My opposition derived from the fact that now everybody knows the truth about how I spend my weekends.

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In the light of recent controversies let me now answer those questions that the press, in its sense of decorum and delicacy, has always been afraid to ask.

As for my relations with the Secretary of State, they can be best summed up by a conversation a couple of days ago. We attended a meeting in the Situation Room. After it concluded, I suggested that we continue the discussion in the White House Mess. Bill said, "Fine, but before we go to your office couldn't we get a bite to eat?"

-3-

It is true I have been getting kicked around lately. And it is natural that some of you will wonder what life will be like when you won't have me to kick around anymore. But I could not leave before such a small audience. After all, there are twenty thousand people in the State Department alone who want to be there for *that* occasion.

-4-

The Chinese have been meticulous hosts. As you know, most Chinese carry a little book of the sayings of Chairman Mao. But Peking has overlooked nothing to make us feel at home. It will be quite an event to see 100 thousand Chinese waving their copies of *Six Crises*.

The CIA -- those initials stand for "Creepers, It's Anderson!" -- has supplied us with the minutes of a meeting of the Peking Special Action Group. It reads as follows: "All Americans look alike. So here is a guide to identify the principals. The man who looks like our dear ally, Foreign Minister Gromyko, is President Nixon. The man who, when unobserved, mumbles "Let me at Joe Alsop" is Secretary Rogers. Dr. Kissinger is the one who asks all the questions about the methods we used to frighten the bureaucracy during the Cultural Revolution."

Let me conclude on a less frivolous note. I have had the honor of serving three Presidents. And I know that whatever their differences each wanted to leave the country and the world better than how he found it. Soon this President will be embarking on a series of journeys which we fervently hope will mark a milestone in the road to peace. And when the voice of controversy has stilled all that will matter will be whether what was done made a difference, whether it marked an episode or an epoch.

We are clearly living through one of the most difficult periods of our history. Some say we are divided over Vietnam; others blame domestic discord. But I believe the cause of our anguish is deeper. Throughout our history we believed that effort was its own reward.

-5-

Partly because so much has been achieved here in America, we have tended to suppose that every problem must have a solution, and that good intentions should somehow guarantee good results. Utopia was seen not as a dream, but as our logical destination if we only traveled the right road. Our generation is the first to have found that the road is endless, that in travelokng we will find not Utopia but only ourselves. The realization of our essential loneliness accounts for so much of the frustration and the rage of our time.

In a world in which there has never been more talk and never less dialogue, nothing is more important than to raise our debates from motives to issues. As we regain our trust in each other, the important can again replace the urgent. So beyond all the hoopla and drama of Presidential trips, beyond the exegesis of communiques and speeches, we are on the quest for a peace deeper than the absence of war among nations -- something expressed in the Maxims of La Rochefoucauld. "When man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

Northridge, California 91354
18361 Donneret Street
Mrs. Jo Clemens

Staff Secretary
Jeanne W. Davis

Sincerely,

Club.

of his January 26 speech to the Washington Press

Mr. Kleisinger has asked me to send you a copy

Dear Mrs. Clemens:

February 9, 1975

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

January 31

Lora:

This seems to have become your job;
I'll do it if you want me to.

Copy of Press Club speech wanted by:

Mr. Paul Theis
Republican Congressional Committee
300 New Jersey Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20003

jlp

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THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

January 27, 1972

Mr. Kissinger:

We have had calls from various persons requesting copies of the address you made last night. (The list to date is attached.)

Do you have any objection to our complying with these requests?

Yes ___

No ___

Or would you prefer that we check each individual request with you?

Yes 1

No ___

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