2201 SW 27th Terrace A
Coconut Grove
Miami, Florida, 33133
November 6, 1976

The Honorable Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D. C., 20520

My dear Mr. Secretary:

It is with fear and trepidation that I awaken each
morning after a sleep-disturbed night of wondering what
will be the fate of our great country - yes, of all of
the countries of the world - who have come to depend on
us and who continue to look to us for guidance, for
without the team of Kissinger and Ford there just is no
basis for security and continued balance of power.

With every intelligent and wise and much perused
contribution you have made while serving as National
Security Advisor and as Secretary of State, you have
forged one more super link into our chain of freedom
and of peace not only for our country but toward the
survival of mankind.

I could write lengthy dissertations or even books
on the subject - both about the Nixon administration -
when I felt more secure, safe, free and peaceful than
ever before in my lifetime - and during the Ford admin-
istration, which is now drawing to a close and preparing
to make a final curtain call with, I might add, a con-
tinuous standing ovation which will surely resound to
be felt around the world and out into the vast spaces
in the universes of satellites.

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However, I wish merely to convey my sadness and
feelings of being absolutely destroyed and shattered
because I realize that with the new man and his obvious
palace guard in place, your services quite obviously
shall reach a countdown although since you have served
in a bipartisan manner so nobly and willingly, I cannot
quite understand why it must be so. I am certain that
this will conform partly, at least, to your wishes and
desires and remember your recent quote on October 24,
on "Face the Nation," when you quipped (as only our
charming "Henry the K" could do) about giving a
"terminal date" to your "departmental colleagues so that
their morale would not break," a statement which I am
sure was meant quite figuratively.

Please let me wish you and your charming wife -
your most talented wife, Nancy - the highest rewards
that life in your futures can offer and extend my per-
sonal appreciation for your years of devoted and un-
paralelled service and expertise which to my way of
thinking is irreplaceable. (My husband is a retired
Air Force Colonel and I was an Air Force secretary at
Headquarters, Northeast Air Command, Pepperrell Air
Force Base, St. John's, Newfoundland, cleared for Top
Secret, and I know that of which I speak. You have
inspired me to study International Relations and
Chinese Foreign Policy but I must admit I am at a
stalemate since this election; however, I guess even
Toynbee predicted one of those for the whole nation,
didn't he?).

Thank you, dearest Mr. Secretary, for "detente"
and for the "SALT" talks, for your shuttle diplomacy -
your unsurpassed relations with Brezhnev and with Mao
and Chou En-lai - and all the treaties and agreements
which have kept all of us alive this long.

I hope to see you around in some high echelon of
your choice for a very long, long time and for your
many past deeds of greatness -

you shall be lovingly and gratefully cherished.

RSVP

John G. Morey
400 Kean Lane
Terre Haute, Indiana

January 20, 1977

Henry Alfred Kissinger
Secretary of State (Emeritus)
"P" Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Excellency, (as you would have it)

On this inaugural day and as I am in the process of preparing my
Twenty-fifth reunion class report my thoughts turned towards the
many contributions that Harvard men have made to the Republic
since you and I were in Adams House together ( and somewhat further
back than that !). We did not know each other then or since, but
I see from the sample yearbook outline that we were then nevertheless.
Who knows, we may have met at one of David Little's gracious dinners
at Apthorp House. Or perhaps endured William Y. Elliot's ponderous
lectures.

You have always enjoyed my great admiration and respect and it is with
regret that I view your departure along with that of President Ford.

For my own part, I see no virtue in the galloping egalitarianism which
has swept the country in the past decade and perhaps our "populist"
President shares these doubts by selecting such an "Establishment."
Cabinet. In Carter's own words, "Why not the Best"--the Best are
the inherently bright, the best educated, the conceptual thinkers,
the doers and withall they are compassionate men. Harvard strives to
produce all of that and more. You are a great credit to us all.

There is much to be done by such youths as you and I and I trust
we will all get on with it for ourselves, for Harvard and for Country.

25TH ANNIVERSARY REPORT

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hockey-game-watching overcoat that probably went back to prep school.
Perhaps the hat was different, I'm not sure.

*Gone with the Wind:* We don't get to sit up late any more arguing with
Rowland Cox after one of his Selma marches.

*The Master still faster:* Almost won tennis match on home club court in
southern winter weather to the not-as-old-as-I-thought Eliot Master Emeri-
tus John Finley.

*Advice:* From John Cheever's *Wapshot Chronicle:* "... Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely gray hair. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord."

HENRY ALFRED KISSINGER

OFFICE ADDRESS: State Department, Washington, D.C. 20520.

PREPARED AT: George Washington High School, New York, N.Y.

YEARS IN COLLEGE: 1947-1950. HOUSE AFFILIATION: Adams. DEGREES: A.B., summa cum laude, 1950; A.M., 1952; PH.D., 1954.

MARRIED: Nancy Maginnes, March 30, 1974. CHILDREN: Elizabeth; David (both by previous marriage).

HARVARD BROTHER: Walter Bernhardt Kissinger, M.B.A., '53.

OCCUPATION: Secretary of State.

OFFICES HELD: From 1954 to 1971, member of the faculty of Harvard University, both in the Department of Government and at the Center for International Affairs; Associate Director of the Center, 1957-60; Study Director, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, Council of Foreign Relations, 1955-56; Director of the Special Studies Project, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 1956-58; Director, Harvard International Seminar, 1951-71, and Director, Harvard Defense Studies Program, 1958-71 (on leave of absence from Harvard from January, 1969 to January, 1971). Consultant to the Department of State (1965-68), United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1961-68), RAND Corporation (1961-68), National Security Council (1961-62), Weapons Systems Evaluation Group of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1959-60), Operations Coordinating Board (1955), Director of the Psychological Strategy Board (1952), and Operations Research Office (1951). From 1943 to 1946, served in the U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Corps and from 1946 to 1949 was a captain in the Military Intelligence Reserve.

PUBLICATIONS: Six books and more than forty articles on United States foreign policy, international affairs, and diplomatic history. Among the awards received are the Guggenheim Fellowship (1965-66), the Woodrow Wilson prize for the best book in the fields of government, politics and international affairs (1958), the American Institute for Public Service Award (1973). Other awards include: the Veterans of Foreign Wars Dwight D. Eisenhower Distinguished Service Medal (1973), the

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HOPE Award for International Understanding (1973), the George Catlett Marshall Award (1973), the Society of the Family of Man Award (1973), the Charles Evans Hughes Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (1973), the Nobel Peace Prize (1973), the American Legion Distinguished Service Medal (1974), and the Wateler Peace Prize (1974).

IT is premature, I hope, to attempt an obituary or a lengthy autobiography. I was appointed Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs on January 21, 1969, and was sworn in as Secretary of State on September 22, 1973. I was deeply moved to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973. Since then, the noteworthy event in my life has been my marriage on March 30, 1974, to the former Nancy Maginnes.

It is customary for reports like this to conclude with a personal assessment of the nation's future. I would choose to include what I said to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the hearings on my nomination as Secretary of State:

"Americans have recently endured the turmoil of assassinations and riots, racial and generational confrontations, and a bitter, costly war. Just as we were emerging from that conflict, we were plunged into still another ordeal.

"These traumatic events have cast lengthening shadows over our traditional optimism and self-esteem. A loss of confidence in our own country would inevitably be mirrored in our international relations. Where once we ran the risk of thinking we were too good for the world, we might now swing to believing we are not good enough. Where once a soaring optimism tempted us to dare too much, a shrinking spirit could lead us to attempt too little. Such an attitude — and the foreign policy it would produce — would deal a savage blow to global stability.

"But I am hopeful about our prospects. America is resilient. The dynamism of this country is irrepressible. Whatever our divisions, we can rally to the prospects of building a world at peace and responsive to human aspirations. In so doing, we can replenish our reservoir of faith."

## ROGER LEE KITFIELD

MAILING ADDRESS: 101 Old Academy Rd., Fairfield, Conn. 06430.

1426 21st Street NW
Washington D.C. 20036

7 November 1976

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

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

By the year 2000 A.D. Communist China will have undoubtedly become a power to be feared. She will have consolidated all her economic and political currents on the domestic scene and surely will be looking outward by then, perhaps towards new worlds to dominate and absorb.

But for the present, the Peoples' Republic is in a position subordinate to that of its Communist Big Brother to the north. Whether Peking will surpass Moscow in power without a major war is something we cannot predict with certainty.

However, since the United States must live in the same arena with the two Communist giants, we will either have to treat them with impartiality or with partiality towards one of these powers.

It is my belief that we should be partial to Communist China, without, however, making too big a thing of it.

The removal of our 40,000 troops from South Korea would be a boon to both Washington and Peking, for it would erase a barrier that is preventing relations between our two nations from becoming cordial and even warm.

There was no blood-bath in South Viet Nam when the Communists took over. The same would be true in South Korea when she rejoins her brothers to the north.

When President-elect Carter stated that he would strengthen American ties with our natural allies in Western Europe, Canada, Mexico and Japan, I thought that there was a foreign policy with which no-one could possibly disagree.

A policy so tame and unimaginative as to awaken no objection from any segment of the national electorate. This statement may have been good politics, but we all know that Governor Carter is neither tame nor unimaginative.

The United States needs to reassure its natural allies, whom we often can and do take for granted. It is comforting to know that none of them are defecting to the East.

But Washington needs much stronger cards than these in order to stand up to the power of the Soviet Union, our number one reality. We assuredly have need of the active friendship of the entire Arab world, from Rabat to Baghdad.

We need the symmetry of Western Europe and the Arabs and of Japan and Communist China in order to contain (but not isolate) the awesome power of the Soviets. Nothing less than this immense world-wide combination will do, Mr. Secretary. Nothing less than this ambitious grouping will make your admirable policy of détente work in the future.

Seldom in our history have we had a Secretary of State who possessed such agility, persuasiveness, ability and charm. You should be running for four terms like F.D.Roosevelt. Presidents of all hues and persuasions should be reappointing you for life.

Talleyrand served the Bourbons, Napoleon and the Bourbons again. You are certainly as agile as Talleyrand ever was. If only President-elect Carter would make use of your conciliatory powers.

Sincerely and respectfully,

Joseph W. Morrier