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Date

Signature

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

707 NORTH CANON DRIVE
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA

December 4, 1972

Dr. Henry Kissinger
c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington D.C.

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

Thank you so very much for the recommendation to Stanford
University. I do hope that I will be worthy of it and will gain
acceptance to the University.

I wish to thank you also for your note which in itself means
very much to me. You are a very kind and generous man and you have
all my appreciation for your help.

When you do make it out to the west coast again it would give
me great pleasure if I could do a photo layout on you as a small
bit of thanks. I do hope that all goes well with whatever plans
you are working on right now and that peace is in sight for the
near future.

Good luck and thanks.

Jlb:11/57/55

Stanford, California 94305
Stanford University
Office of Admissions
Director of Freeman Admissions

Henry A. Kieزلger

Sincerely,

to its student body.
and feel sure that he will be a positive addition
make Peter Douglas to Stanford University
a lively and creative mind. I highly recom-
mand person of genuine intellectual curiosity and
of his present scholastic ratings, I find him
a young man of great integrity and excel-
ence a young man of great integrity and excel-
ence a young man of great integrity and excel-
ence I have known Peter for several years. He
writing to you on his debut.
institution, and I am taking the liberty of
Douglas has applied for admission to your
It has come to my attention that Mr. Peter

Dear Sir:

It has come to my attention that Mr. Peter
Douglas has applied for admission to your
institution, and I am taking the liberty of
writing to you on his debut.

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

November 7, 1972

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

It was very good to see you the other night and
I am only sorry that we could not have had a moment
to talk.

I am presently applying to colleges for the 1973 fall terms. I have had a number of interviews with various institutions and have made my first choice, Stanford University. It is in my opinion one of the best schools in the United States yet unfortunately very difficult to get into. The reason I am writing you is to ask you for a recommendation. I hope that in asking for this I am not causing any problems or taking up any of your valuable time. This I definitely do not want to do. However, if you do find the time your aide would be greatly appreciated. I have taken the liberty * of enclosing the Board of Admissions address at Stanford, if you do find it convenient to write up a recommendation.

I would like to offer my congratulations to both
you and The President and wish you my best during the
next four years. Thank you very much for your time.

* Director of Freshman Admissions
Office of Admissions
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Berkeley, California 94720

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

REPORT ON GRADUATE APPLICANT

Name of Applicant

Driscoll

Victoria

Kay

Miss

(Please Print)

Family Name

First Name

Middle Name

Name

Proposed Graduate Major

Epidemiology

Status: New/Continuing/Returning Graduate
Student at Berkeley (Please circle one)

as listed on application

To Recommender:

We would appreciate your opinion of the person named above, who is applying for admission and/or financial assistance at Berkeley. What are your personal impressions of the candidate's intellectual capacity, his ability in research or his professional skill, his promise of productive scholarship, the quality of his previous work, his character and personality. (Use other side of sheet if necessary.)

Please do not return the completed form to the applicant but mail it directly to the **Graduate Adviser of the major department** indicated above. If applicant is applying for admission and fellowship consideration, this form must be returned preferably by December 1, but no later than **December 15**.

I have known Victoria Kay Driscoll for three and a half years and have the greatest respect for her integrity and intellect. She was hired to care for my children during my frequent visits to California with the President, but her talents are not fully employed when she is serving only as a companion to children. She has a lively and creative mind, a high sense of responsibility and irreproachable character. I have trusted her completely with the personal safety and comfort of my family.

I have known of her academic career thus far only because I have been interested in her and we talk frequently about her studies when she is working for me. I know of no details of her student work except that she received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude. I have the greatest faith in her judgment and reasoning and intellectual ability and would consider her an outstanding candidate for advanced studies.

Please rate this student in over-all promise

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Recommender's name: Henry A. Kissinger

Position or title: Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs at The White House
Address: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. 20500

Date: November 18, 1972

Signature:

November 6, 1972

Dear Julie,

I know Mr. Kissinger must be impossibly busy, but if at all feasible could you ask him to sign the enclosed recommendation? If he gets as far as the academic rating, I don't think he knows that I graduated magna cum laude. I trust your judgment, so if you think the time is not right to ask him please let me know. I shall try to find someone else.

I'm working especially hard this year--temporary jobs and double shifts. I would like to earn some money before joining the ranks of impoverished students again. I'm also hoping to visit Europe this summer before starting graduate school. My strongest interest is still medicine, but as it is really too late to be starting medical school, I thought the public health field looked promising.

I wonder if there are going to be some major changes in Mr. Kissinger's White House career now that peace is close at hand? How are your future plans shaping themselves? I hope the job is not cutting too many inroads into your freedom. Would like to hear from you Julie if you have the time.

Always,
Viki

May 9, 1970

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Dear Henry

Howard P. Jones and I have proposed Roscoe Drummond for membership in the Cosmos Club as the author of Meritorious and Original Work in journalism. Would you write in support? Letters should state why his work can be called original and why it is important enough to justify his election.

RECEIVED

AUG 18 1970

CENTRAL FILES

COSMOS CLUB

2121 MASSACHUSETTS AVE., N. W.
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20008

Personal

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

January 8, 1971

Dear Theo:

Please forgive my imposing on you with a request for a personal favor. The son of a very good friend of mine will be studying in Germany for the next six months and I would like him to see and learn as much as possible. He is Peter Ehrlichman, the son of John Ehrlichman, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs (he plays in domestic policy much the same role as I play in foreign policy.)

Peter is an unusually nice and thoughtful boy and will be studying basically at Beutelsbach outside of Stuttgart but also doing some traveling in Germany. He majors in history at Stanford University in California with an emphasis on German civilization. I hope that you will not mind my asking him to get in touch with you if he is in your part of the country. Anything that you can do to make his visit to Germany a more interesting experience will be greatly appreciated.

Dr. Theo Sommer
Die Zeit
Hamburg, Germany

P.S. In case you should want to get in touch with Peter his address is: Landgutburg D7056, Beutelsbach, Germany, (07151) Waiblingan 6063

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

January 9, 1971

Mr. Ehrlichman:

Attached is a list of names of people to whom
Mr. Kissinger wrote regarding Peter's stay
in Germany.

Also attached is a copy of one of the letters
he sent, just to give you an idea of what he
said. All of the other letters are very
similar to this one.

Mr. Kissinger intends to write another set
of letters next week and we will provide a list
of those names when the others have been sent.

Julie

RECEIVED
JUN 26 1971

JUN 26 1971

CENTRAL FILES

KISSINGER, HENRY A./Recommendations - Introductions

Dear Horst:

Please forgive my imposing on you with a request for a
personal favor. The son of a very good friend of mine will
be studying in Germany for the next six months and I would
like him to see and learn as much as possible. He is Peter
Ehrlichman, the son of John Ehrlichman, the Assistant to
the President for Domestic Affairs (he plays in domestic policy
much the same role as I play in foreign policy).

In case you should want to get in touch with him his address
is:

Peter S. Ehrlichman
Landgutburg D7056
Beutelsbach, Germany
(07151) Waiblingen 6063

Mr. Horst Ehmke
53 Bonn
Adenauerallee 141
Bonn, West Germany

JLP:jlj 1/8/71

RECEIVED

JAN 14 1971

CENTRAL FILES

KISSINGER, HENRY

FEB 26 1970

Dear Dr. Else:

Thank you for your letter of February 20 and
the enclosed information regarding the Center
for Coordination of Ancient & Modern Studies.

Your program is a most interesting one, and I
regret that the press of official obligations does
not permit me more time to make suggestions
and comments regarding it.

I wish you well in the valuable endeavor.

Dr. Gerald F. Else, Director
Center for Coordination of Ancient
& Modern Studies
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

jlp:2/25/70

RECEIVED
FEB 26 1970
FINAL FILES

newsletter which will be available to anyone interested. More elaborate publications, such as bibliographies in various fields, remain to be considered at a later time.

## Some Things The Center Is Not

The Center is not and does not have a curriculum, a course of study, or a degree program. It will presuppose, in the persons whom it approaches and tries to help, prior competence in some field of study ancient or modern.

The Center is not a research facility in the usual sense. It has no resident staff except a Director and a Secretary, and is not equipped to house visitors except for brief periods (see above). Research generated or encouraged by the Center will normally be carried on at the home base(s) of its principal investigator(s).

Finally, the Center has no fellowship or research funds of its own and therefore cannot offer financial support for projects which may come into being as a result of its encouragement. It will, however, attempt to put authors of worthwhile projects in touch with possible sources of support.

## A Final Word

We believe that the Center for Coördination of Ancient and Modern Studies responds to a felt need: to break down the artificial barriers separating the study of antiquity from that of the modern world. Our belief does not rest on mere blind faith but is prompted by the enthusiastic reception which the idea has already received from numerous correspondents. We hope to have many more promises of adherence and coöoperation. But two facts have to be borne in mind.

The first is precisely that whatever success the Center may have will be based on coöoperation: coöoperation not only in carrying out projects but in helping to identify, define, and criticize them. The Center is a catalytic device, a listening post, a message center, a place open to all who believe in the idea. But it cannot and will not undertake to

do the whole job. That is the function of our collaborators—in every sense of the word.

The second point is closely allied to the first. The potential range and depth of the activity we are proposing are tremendous—one could easily think of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of topics for study— and the Center is very small. We cannot possibly tackle everything that could be done, or even everything that should be done; strict selectivity will be required. But if the Center's activities prove to have real value, I believe (and although this belief is based on faith, I hope it is not blind) that increased support will be forthcoming, not only from the University of Michigan but from other sources.

And now—we await your communications.

GERALD F. ELSE
Director

October 1969

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# The University of Michigan

## CENTER FOR COORDINATION OF ANCIENT AND MODERN STUDIES

## Background

Interdisciplinary studies, comparative studies, collaborative studies of all kinds are in full swing throughout the natural and social sciences. The humanities, and especially those fields in the humanities that deal with antiquity (the Graeco-Roman world and the ancient Near East), present a very different picture. There, with some conspicuous exceptions (a few journals, a few teaching programs, e.g., in comparative literature), little is being done to encourage comparative or collaborative effort. In particular, no coördinated attempt is being made to bridge the gap between ancient and modern studies, and to do so in a modern way. Yet all these branches of study, the ancient as well as the modern, have expanded and proliferated and grown in sophistication until they are ripe for new kinds of interpenetration: to ask new questions and search, through coöperative effort, for new, more precise answers.

Classical study is no longer limited (if it ever was) to learning two canonical literary languages in order to read and explain a few canonical literary texts. Its field is the whole of Graeco-Roman civilization: a complete world, with a range of developments and problems—political, social, intellectual, spiritual—comparable to our own. The study of the ancient Near East is not limited to the direct spiritual antecedents of the Judaeo-Christian tradition; it embraces the rise of urban civilization itself, the establishment of organized religion, the beginnings of law, astronomy, mathematics, etc.

It stands to reason that those who study these

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complex worlds and the rich variety of human activities that went on in them—politics, social organization, law, war, religion, philosophy, science, technology, art, literature, rhetoric—have things of value to say to, and to learn from, their opposite numbers in the various modern fields. But no device exists for making or facilitating such contacts; under modern circumstances, if they come about at all they tend to come about through happy accident. Whatever the reasons, the student of ancient political systems, Roman religion, or Greek oral poetry normally works in isolation from the methodologies, conceptual models, collections of material, that are familiar to his modern colleague, and the latter in turn is cut off from the stimulus of trying out his models and methods on different yet comparable material.

## Purpose of the Center

It is time that these artificial walls came tumbling down, and the Center for Coördination of Ancient and Modern Studies, although it possesses no Joshua's trumpet and has only very modest financial resources, proposes to make a beginning. In seeking to breach the mutual isolation between ancient studies on the one hand and modern studies on the other, we are guided by two complementary principles: continuity and comparability.

"Continuity" refers to the fact that our own civilization, in most of its manifold aspects, is directly descended from the ancient Near East and the ancient Mediterranean world. But this fact, although it has never quite been forgotten, cannot be said to be alive and operative in the minds of most present-day researchers in political science, sociology, modern history, American literature, and so on—not to speak of the general public. Thus, to cite but one example, classical arguments and models had an important influence on our struggle for independence and the making of our Constitution, but that influence is unknown to most Americans and has seldom been studied, or even referred to, by modern historians.

"Comparability" is a different kind of concept, and a relatively new one in this context. As the 20th

century has staggered from the First World War to the Second and beyond, signs have multiplied that "we have been over this ground before:" that the story of Athenian democracy and Roman Republic with their imperialistic adventures, their political and spiritual crises, is pertinent to us in ways which it was not to our ancestors, or even to our grandfathers. The religious and moral crisis in fifth- and fourth-century Athens has important similarities with our own at the present moment. More generally, the ancient worlds we are talking about, being complete, complex, and sophisticated civilizations, are comparable to our own at many levels and from many points of view, large and small, theoretical and practical, scientific and humanistic, historical and contemporary.

The Center will seek to encourage and coördinate research and writing along both these lines: studies in classical, Judaic, and other influences on modern life (including Europe and other parts of the world, not merely the United States), and point-to-point comparisons in various fields, at various levels, and in varying sizes.

One other principle calls for mention. The modern situation being what it is, few present-day scholars in either ancient or modern studies possess the intellectual and technical equipment—linguistic, methodological, bibliographical—to do both sound and original work on the other side of the line. If comparative studies are to be pursued on a responsible level and by more than a handful of polymaths, coöoperative methods of one sort or another will have to be devised.

## Lines of Activity

Starting from these principles, the Center proposes to initiate four closely related lines of activity:

1. To identify areas or topics for investigation which are or might be of mutual interest to students of the ancient and the modern world.

2. To identify and bring together scholars in any field, ancient or modern, who are already pursuing such investigations or (presumably the commoner case) might become interested in doing so.

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3. To encourage and facilitate their work in any appropriate way, especially along collaborative lines.

4. To serve as a clearing-house for information on all these points.

## Mode of Operation

The work of the Center will be carried on mainly through personal contacts, conferences, and certain informal (and necessarily restricted) kinds of publication.

1. Personal contacts are the heart of the enterprise. The aim is to put serious and competent individuals in touch with one another and facilitate their work together—or, in the rarer case of one who has all the competences in his own person, to help marshal the support, criticism, feedback, or whatever, that he needs for the task. In addition to developing contacts by mail and telephone, the Center will pay travel and subsistence costs to enable selected individuals or small groups to hold meetings or working conferences (up to a week or ten days) in Ann Arbor or, if appropriate, elsewhere.

2. Conferences. From time to time, in addition to the personal contacts mentioned above, the Center will invite selected persons to Ann Arbor for planning conferences, to discuss the work of the Center in general, help form plans of attack on particular problems, and/or review progress on a project. The number attending such conferences will be kept small (say, between 6 and 15 persons) and the proceedings will be as informal and "unstructured" as possible.

3. Publication. The Center does not envision the establishment of a new learned society or a new learned journal. The results of scholarship stimulated or encouraged by the Center should find publication in the journal or journals most appropriate to the particular case, and/or, if possible, in newspapers, general magazines, television and other public media.

However, since one of the essential functions of the Center is to act as a clearing-house for information, it will publish from time to time a bulletin or

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN 48104

CENTER FOR COORDINATION OF
ANCIENT & MODERN STUDIES

GERALD F. ELSE, Director
(313) 764-0112

20 February 1970

Mr. Henry Alfred Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

The enclosed statement concerning our Center is being sent
to you because a mutual friend has indicated that he thinks you will
be interested in it. I hope that you will be, and that you will
respond by giving me not only general comments but particular sugges-
tions as to topics that would repay investigation and/or names of
other persons who might join in one or another aspect of the enterprise.

A first conference (cf. p.4 of the statement) was held at
the end of January, to discuss possible comparative and collaborative
approaches to the study of ancient and modern society (social and
political forms, ideas, developments). Later conferences will address
themselves to similar problems in literature and other fields.
Suggestions along these lines will be welcomed.

A first Newsletter (see again p.4) has just been published
and is enclosed herewith. We welcome items of information, suggested
"want ads", etc., for future issues.

The Center exists not to promote itself but to bring together
persons who are interested in cultivating this great but neglected area -
or rather, these many areas - of investigation. Your cooperation would
be an important part of the enterprise.

GFE:dw
enclosures

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## Our Support

With the help of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center is mounting a series of planning conferences between now and next fall.

The Center was founded and is supported by The University of Michigan except for the grant mentioned above. However, the scope of the Center is national - and we hope it may eventually be international.

## Your Response to the Idea

We naturally thought from the beginning that the Center idea was a good one and would be welcomed by some people; but the enthusiasm with which it has actually been greeted in many (not just a few) quarters was, and is, astonishing. Here are a few sample quotes:

> "As one who has made inter-disciplinary studies and the pursuit of modern relevance in the Classics almost the cornerstone of my career, I am probably your most hearty and committed supporter in principle if not in practice."

> "Your letter, with the description of the Center, arrived just as I was feeling a little more gloomy than usual over the sealed-off atmosphere in which our studies sometimes seem to be carried on. I can imagine what an enthusiastic response your plans will receive from many of our colleagues, and I would certainly like to receive the sample list of topics you mention."

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"I have long been opposed to the artificial barriers that have traditionally separated the several disciplines particularly in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and I am frankly supportive of any program that promises to erode, penetrate, or break down such barriers. You appear to envisage on a much broader scale something of the sort that several of us have been attempting to effect at UCLA. Our experience in this endeavor has been gratifyingly successful."

"I think your idea is very exciting and will have a strong appeal. It gives a new perspective, a sense of direction and promises to channel energies. This is exactly what is needed today."

"As a preamble, I might say that I am enthusiastically in favor of what I understand to be the aims of the Center. I happen to hold the probably naive opinions that (a) much of the mess in which we are comes from our having eliminated the classical past from our education, and (b) professional classicists have done their best to invalidate the Classics by rejecting the present and devoting much energy to problems which nobody except a professor of Classics can take seriously...we must face the fact that Greek and Latin will quite simply be out unless something is done and done PDQ if not sooner. I ought to add that my awareness of the

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situation comes partly from my
own area of specialization -
Anglo-Saxon and Germanic Phi-
lology - which has managed to
commit suicide in order to
remain pure."

These responses could be multi-
plied by several dozen. Some doubts
and misgivings were also expressed;
a summary of the main ones will
appear in our next issue.

(The deluge of replies - many of them running to four and five typed pages single-spaced - was overwhelming. They have been in constant use as the source of our inspiration and plans. Please forgive me if I have not acknowledged each letter personally. G.F.E.)

The Newsletter

We hope to stimulate various
kinds of comparative and/or collab-
orative projects over a wide area
where very little such activity has
been going on. Obviously this goal
cannot be achieved overnight, espe-
cially when many if not most of the
potential collaborators do not even
know each other.

One main device for putting
people in touch with one another, and
with promising topics for investiga-
tion, is this Newsletter. Immediately
below is a first list of topics on
which information and communication
are actively solicited.

We expect to print more "want
ads," and from all fields, not just
literature. Please send us your items
and queries for publication.

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Prof. Berkley Peabody
Dept. of Comparative & World Lit.
SUNY at Albany
Albany, New York 12203

5. Evidence on the principles used by poets of any language to arrange their short poems for publication as collections - e.g. working habits of poets in the form of notebooks, reported conversations, or comments of close and trustworthy acquaintances - to be employed in an attempt to explain the editing of the work of the Latin poets, since we lack any auto-biographical statements from them on this subject.

Prof. William S. Anderson
Dept. of Classics, Dwinelle Hall
University of California
Berkeley, California 94720

6. Efforts to make ancient character study in general, and Theophrastus' _Characters_ in particular, intelligible and interesting to modern readers, with special reference to the "character-trait" theory of R.S. Peters.

Prof. William W. Fortenbaugh
Classics Dept., Douglass College
Rutgers, The State University
New Brunswick, N. J. 08903

7. Interested in helping others (and learning in the process) with projects involving economics of the ancient world.

Prof. Warren J. Samuels
Dept. of Economics, Marshall Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48823

8. Special communication:

"I am engaged in the application of certain psychological theories to

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the study of nineteenth and twentieth
century fiction, and I am fairly con-
fident that the same theories will
shed considerable light on Greek
drama and, perhaps, the Greek temper-
ament.

"Specifically, I am using the theories of Daren Horney, Abraham Maslow, and other humanistic psychologists to understand the character and explain thematic inconsistencies in the novels of such authors as Thackeray, Stendhal, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, Hardy, and Conrad. Horney posits three major inter-personal defense strategies: compliance, aggression, and withdrawal. The neurotic personality is torn by conflicts between these incompatible moves. Greek tragedy presents an aggressive hero who violates the taboos of the compliant solution and is punished.... The cosmos of Greek tragedy is an irrational one which must be placated by submission.

"I would be interested in testing out such ideas with people who are specialists in Greek literature, philosophy, and culture. I have no objection to passing on my approach, or conceptual system, to others for their use in their own specialties. I am convinced that the psychologists I am working with provide tools at least as powerful as those of Freud and Jung for the study of past cultures."

Prof. Bernard J. Paris
Department of English
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48823

## List of Possible Topics for Research and Writing

A list of topics, areas, questions,

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Paul L. Ward, Executive Sec.
American Historical Association

A digest of the proceedings and conclusions of this first conference will be made available in due time; watch for an announcement in the next Newsletter.

Further conferences will be held, devoted to other areas such as literature, philosophy, morals, etc. Developments along these lines will be reported in future Newsletters.

## Conference Comment

Brooks Otis, one of the participants in the first conference, has the following to say:

"The conference as a whole clarified my own mind as to the relation between the more general purpose of the Center and the long list of research topics that had bulked rather largely in the correspondence about the conference. In other words, your purpose, I take it, is not just to help father a number of pieces of research but to focus general attention - the more general the better - on the crucial relationship of the ancient world to ourselves...

"I know it is a sticky business to defend the humanities or the classics on the ground of their human importance, relevance or what not, and we all know that a lot of people have slopped over and indulged in cheap verbalism on the point, but the point, nevertheless, is still valid and

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to weaken it by an excessively scientific concern with objective research would, I think, be a very great pity. The problem is to maintain this principle in a decent way and in a way that avoids the cant with which so many defenses of the humanities have been involved...

"It is also important to avoid a purely belletristic emphasis. You rightly stressed politics and American history. I think we barely touched upon the problem of how one can bring out 'relevance' in an intellectually respectable way and also bring out the novelty that the new situation (including such things as the famed generation gap) undoubtedly demands."

## Organization of the Center

Staff: Gerald F. Else, Director

Mrs. Dorothy N. Warner, Administrative Secretary

Robert W. Sawyer, research assistant

Antje E. Koenig, clerk-typist

## Executive Committee:

T. V. Buttrey (Classical Studies)

John W. Eadie (History)

Frank Grace (Political Science)

Louis L. Orlin (Near Eastern Languages and Literatures) and the Director

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY

SLAVIC LANGUAGES
AND LITERATURES

BOYLSTON 301
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02138

December 8, 1969

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20005

Dear Professor Kissinger:

Is the man in question Artur Międzyrzecki? Several months ago, a French friend of his wrote to me about his difficult situation and inquired about his chances of finding a job in the U.S. In October, asked by the University of Philadelphia whom I would recommend for a chair of Polish, I mentioned him together with another person in a similar plight. I received no answer. Most probably they did not like the suggestion.

At present, another arrangement, although of a temporary character only, seems to me more feasible. His name was given to Professor Paul Engle, the director of the International Writing Program, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52240, as of a possible candidate for their fellowship in 1970-71. The Program brings together for one academic year poets from different countries. They are under no obligation except to stay on the campus and discuss poetry among themselves. Such an arrangement would give Mr. Międzyrzecki an opportunity of spending a year away from the pressures of today's Poland and should enable him to make a search for a job in the U.S.: since he is not a person from the academic world, a personal interview would be especially important in his case.

If my guess is right and if you approve of the plan I would suggest that you write a recommendation note to Mr. Engle. It would for sure very much improve his chances.

h