The Western White House
San Clemente

July 17, 1974

Dear Paul:

While I did not have an opportunity to write you
before I left for Moscow, I did want you to know
that Ron had passed along your letter and the
tearsheets from the _Tucson Daily Citizen_. As
always, I was interested to read your views, and
pleased to learn you believe it was a successful
journey.

I understand the tearsheets have also been sent
to Secretary Kissinger and I am sure he will find
the commentaries encouraging.

With best wishes,

Mr. Paul A. McKalip
Editor
<u>Tucson Daily Citizen</u>
Post Office Box 26767
Tucson, Arizona 85726

bcc: Secretary Kissinger w/tearsheets and copy of incoming

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## Tucson Daily Citizen

William A. Small Jr., Publisher

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Paul A. McKalip, Editor

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Dale Walton, Managing Editor

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### Letter from the editor

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When a secretary of state makes a foreign policy decision, he had better be right — or else. Or else the country may find itself in big trouble, which may be hard to alleviate or overcome.

When an editorial writer makes a foreign policy declaration, he had better be right — or else. Or else he may have to write another editorial reversing his position, which is easy enough to do.

There is a vast difference between those who must commit themselves to foreign policy decisions, once decisions are made, and those who simply may comment on foreign policy issues without the awesome responsibility of commitment.

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger spoke to an audience of about 500 of us during the recent convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington. He took the opportunity to illuminate the task of a secretary of state and to distinguish between the role of a foreign policy maker and that of a foreign policy analyst or critic.

Normally a secretary of state makes news because he is discussing hard international problems and setting forth our nation's approach to them. Kissinger did not make headline news with his speech to the editors because he was dealing with philosophy and theory, not practice.

But the sometimes embattled, though always resilient, Kissinger was saying things that not only his audience of editors but also the larger audience of the American public deserved to hear. If some were to say it was self-serving on his part, let it be said also that his remarks helped to serve public understanding of the secretary's role.

It was almost as though the secretary were back in his former professorial role as a teacher of international relations. Because,

before one gets into complex foreign policy subjects such as the Mideast or Africa, it is essential to understand the basics.

Dr. Kissinger, then, either the secretary or the professor, was explaining the basic difference between the analysis of foreign policy and the conduct of foreign policy.

"The analyst," he pointed out, "has whatever time he wishes for analysis." That means time to prepare an editorial or a television commentary or a public speech or a letter to the editor.

"The policy maker has events crowding in, and usually a limited time for response. And the policy maker's decisions," he asserted, "are largely irrevocable. He can't just write another editorial."

For example, he noted, one French division could have stopped Hitler's march into the Rhineland in 1936. But the implications of the German Nazi leader's actions were not all that clear at that time, and the moment was lost.

"By 1941, we knew what Hitler was, but by then it was too late to avoid the full consequences of the failure to act in 1936," he said. The essence of policy making, Kissinger said, is to project the future at a time when facts are at

a minimum. By the time the realities become clear, as they did in 1941, the scope of action has become limited.

All this is not to say that a secretary of state should be insulated from criticism or from being second guessed, and Kissinger was not saying that. The fact that he would appear before a group of editors, many of whom might be seen as his tormentors, is one more proof of his belief in the freedom of the press and of criticism.

I felt that he was trying to give us a greater insight to the office of secretary of state, whoever may fill that office in the future, and I hope this column will serve to share some of that insight with readers.

Insofar as who may fill the office in the near future, at least, President Ford at a later occasion during the convention offered some insight on that.

The President was reminded that one of his closest aides had dropped the remark at a political affair in California that Kissinger was likely to be out very soon. Ford was then asked whether he had known his aide, Rogers Morton, was going to say that and was asked also to comment. The President's answers were clear cut:

"I was surprised (that Morton said that)," Ford declared. "I consider the secretary of state one of the finest, if not the finest, this country has ever had. My administration knows how I feel, and I don't think comments such as that will be made in the future."

So that's how Henry Kissinger sees the role of secretary of state, and that's how President Ford rates Kissinger in the role.

P. O.Box 118
Saugatuck Station
Westport, Conn. 06880

March 3, 1976

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Secretary:

I have taken the liberty of enclosing for your study a book
that is an absolute must for understanding the vast problems
we are faced with in Rhodesia and South Africa.

Please note that the publishers in England advise that the
book has been BANNED there - England the founder of our
modern freedoms of speech and press! The publishers no longer
handler the book, but sold the remaining copies to another
company to distribute,

You may remember the author's book *Insanity Fair* in 1938.
He exposed Hitler's plans to invade Austria and Czechoslovakia
and the Second World War. This book gives the picture of the
same pattern of events building up in Africa and involving the
U. S. dramatically,

We have weeks, days, perhaps only hours before the Communist
hordes attempt the destruction of Rhodesia and then South Afri-
ca - the only democratic, peaceful, sound nations in all that
vast continent, nations we should be supporting in their hours
of trial instead of boycotting and denying the materials to
defend themselves with,

If you can find time today in your tremendous schedule to read
this revealing and deadly account, you will understand better
tomorrow how to cope with the vast intrigue the U. S. is planned
to be the victim of by the Communists and their so-called liber-
al accomplices in Africa and the United Nations,

Weedport, Connecticut.
P. O. Box 118, Sangatuck Station,
Mr. John W. McKearin, Jr.,

Personal Assistant
Suzanne S. McFarlane

Sincerely,

formative, and he appreciates your sending him a copy.
with the book and has found it very interesting and in-
RhodeIs and South Africa. The Secretary is familiar
Inanity Fair '67, which deals with the problems in
Thank you very much for sending the Secretary
March 9, 1976

Dear Mr. McKearin:

March 9, 1976

Psols, Kansas.
Box 115,
Mrs. Drew McLaughlin, Jr.,

Personal Valetant
Suzanne 2. McFarlane

Sincerely,

City I know that he will consider it.
rites, and when next he is free for dinner in Kansas
does indeed count good Chinese food among his favo-
with the information about the Imperial Palace. He
It was so kind of you to write the Secretary

Dear Mrs. McLaughlin:

March 18, 1976

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March 8, 1976

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
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Washington, D. C. 20520

Dear Mr. Secretary:

I hope you won't think this is presumptuous as I really have no motive except to perhaps add to your pleasure when you are in Kansas City for the Republican National Convention.

I have been told by someone who is familiar with a Chinese restaurant in Washington, D. C. that you enjoy Chinese food. If this is true and time permits, I would like to recommend that you arrange to have dinner one evening at the Imperial Palace at 1215 West 103rd and State line, in the Watts Mill Shopping Center, Kansas City, Mo., telephone number 816-942-5500.

The restaurant is run by a friend of ours whose grandfather used to cook for the Emperor in Peking. He has excellent mandarin food and a beautiful restaurant decorated to resemble the Imperial Palace in Peking. It is large and he will cater private parties there.

The owner is Chi Wang and if you see fit to visit there while in Kansas City I am sure he will serve you food you will enjoy.

I am enclosing a match cover from the restaurant.

Enc: 1

Box 115
Paola, Kansas 66071

THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON

August 9, 1975

Dear Clay:

I am writing to thank you and to commend you for your magnificent work on the Inter-Agency Task Force on Indochina Refugees. You played a major role in establishing an effective tool within our government to deal with a situation unique in American history: the evacuation and absorption of more than 100,000 refugees into American life virtually overnight.

That we managed to resettle tens of thousands of Vietnamese so quickly in the United States, despite the practical administrative obstacles we have faced, is in large measure attributable to your skills, energy and determination.

Now that you are about to leave the Task Force, I want to express my gratitude for all you have done for us, for the refugees and for the American people. My colleagues in the Department join me in thanking you and in wishing you continued success in all your endeavors.

Mr. Clayton E. McManaway, Jr.,
Special Assistant to the Director,
Inter-Agency Task Force
for Indochina.