4349 Britta Parkway
Madison, Wisconsin

12 January 1957

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Director of Special Studies
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
22 West 55th Street
New York 19, New York

Dear Sir

Professor Runge advised the University of Wisconsin's Military Policy and Administration Seminar that you have agreed to speak to us in March. We are delighted and honored to have so well known and so well qualified an authority as yourself to discuss what I personally feel is the Seminar's most important topic.

Our Seminar is divided into several teams of two men each. Each team is charged, among other things, with preparing a very short paper in conjunction with the appearance of a particular guest speaker. The purpose of this paper is to present to the Seminar a short biographical sketch of the guest and to suggest some questions and possibly some reading not previously assigned.

Captain Richard Ruehe and I are doing this preliminary work in conjunction with your visit. Can you have your office prepare a short biographical sketch of a page or so (or less, as you prefer), giving to us such information as your educational and professional background, the kind of work you have been engaged in the past few years, and some of your papers and books? If it is not too much trouble, we should like to have this information as soon as is possible, since it should be distributed to the Seminar two weeks before your appearance.

I add, since it might be of interest to you, that Captain Ruehe is an officer in the US Army.

THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
MADISON 6

LAW SCHOOL

January 25, 1957

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

We are delighted to learn that you will be able to be our guest speaker at the Military Policy and Administration Seminar on Friday, the 15th of March to speak on the matter of "Forces for Limited War". We hope that your schedule will allow you to arrive in Madison some time before noon in order that we may arrange a small luncheon gathering of faculty and students. If this is not possible you should plan your schedule to arrive for the seminar meeting at 3:30 PM. The first hour will be given over to your prepared remarks, and this phase of the program will be open to the university community generally. The second hour will be limited to the members of the seminar and will be devoted to a general question and answer--discussion period.

We are assigning by way of background reading the following serials prepared by the Defense Study group at Harvard: No. 79, Forces for Limited or Total War -- The Continuing Debate; No. 81, The Continuing Debate; No. 41 (parts 1 and 2 thru p. 46) General Ridgway's Farewell Letter and Related Documents; No. 59, Planning for a Peripheral War. We are enclosing these materials for your perusal. We would appreciate having your recommendations respecting any other readings, particularly your own work. I have just heard from W. Barton Leach of Harvard to the effect that they are presently putting out a serial on Total and Limited War by Sir John Slessor; we may assign the Slessor paper in addition to the ones indicated.

No doubt you will plan to stay overnight and to that end we will reserve hotel accommodations for you at the Wisconsin Union. If you do stay over we will plan an informal social evening in your honor. The university is able to pay a modest honorarium approximating expenses, in your situation $150.

Do let us have your itinerary as soon as you have arranged your travel plans in order that we may make appropriate arrangements for your time in Madison. Looking forward to your visit, I am

Enclosures

CPR:mn

February 15, 1957

Dear Mr. Runge:

I am writing to let you know Dr. Kissinger's itinerary regarding his visit to Madison on March 15th. Unfortunately, he will not be there before noon on the fifteenth as he will be taking a train from Chicago, where he will be attending a three-day conference, and the train is scheduled to arrive in Madison at 12:40 pm. However, he plans to remain in Madison for the rest of the afternoon, leaving on the 7 pm plane back to Chicago.

Dr. Kissinger regrets that he will not have more time to spend in Madison but hopes that this schedule will fit in with whatever arrangements you may have in mind.

With best wishes,

Mr. C. P. Runge
Assistant Dean, The University
of Wisconsin Law School
Madison 6, Wisconsin