JAN 18 1972

Dear Ken:

Thank you for your letter of January 8. It
was good to hear from you again and I ap-
preciated your sending the clippings to me.
I had not seen them before.

It was good to hear from you again. It has
been too long since we have been in touch.
It is interesting to learn what you have been
doing and I will tell my father that I have
heard from you.

With all good wishes for 1972,

Mr. Kenneth D. Fraser, M. L. L.
"Chaseley", South Cliff
Eastbourne, Sussex
England

jlp:1/17/72

Stiftung für edigenössische Zusammenarbeit
Fondation pour la collaboration confédérale
Fondazione per la collaborazione confederale
Fundaziun per la collaboraziun federala

4500 Solothurn

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Telefon 065/25621

Hon. Nelson A. Rockefeller
Governor
City Hall
Albany, N.Y.
USA

Président / président
Gilbert Duboule, Conseiller d'Etat

Geschäftsführer / directeur
Dr. Max Frenkel

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Excellency:

Our Foundation is a body set up by the Swiss member states and fin-
anced by them and the Federal Government. There is a certain analogy
in intent if not in size with your Council of State Governments.

Next January I shall have the opportunity to visit several organiza-
tions in the field of intergovernmental cooperation in the U.S. At
the end of this tour I'll be in New York.

In 1962 you coined the term "Creative Federalism". Obviously, creat-
ivity, or to be more correct, its lack in state government is one
of the major problems of Swiss federalism.

Creativity needs an environment, channels etc. I'd very much like to
know how you have tackled this problem. How are you as a Governor
organized to keep in touch with new ideas and not to get lost in ad-
ministrative detail? How is the state planning function organized
to be abreast of events and not running after them?

My tentative planning has it that I'll be at New York from February
2 to 5 when I'll be leaving for Europe again. If you could provide
me with an opportunity to pay a visit at your office or some appro-
priate agency I'd be very glad, indeed.

Looking forward to hearing from you I remain

1. Consell de Fondation (1.1.1970); Regierungsrat Dr. Arthur Bachmann, Regierungsrat Dr. Robert Bäuder, Regierungspresident Dr. Eric Léon Chêneaud, Dr. Hans Brüner, Regierungsrat Dr. Ignaz Bribongi, Landamann Oto Bruderer, Regierungsrat Dr. Lukas Burkherot, Theo Clicquard, Consellier d'Etat Gilbert Duboule, Prof. Dr. Eugen Egger, Consellier d'Etat Guy Genoud, Regierungsrat Dr. Alfred Grünl, Dr. Franz Heus, Regierungsrat Dr. Hans Huttmann, Consellier d'Etat François Jeanerot, Dr. Waldemar Lücke, Prof. Dr. Werner König, Schultheiss Werner Kurzmeier, Prof. Dr. Herbert Lüde, Regierungsrat Paul Manz, Georges Herr Martel, Landammann Leo Mitzlhofer, Jean-Claude Pichon, Regierungsrat Dr. Leon Schluß, Regierungsrat Herrn Stahl, Straßenschreiber, Dr. Hans Stöck, Landammann D. Frenkel

### Août 1967

Le Conseil Fédéral renonce le 16 crt. de participer à la Fondation. Par contre, il est disposé à lui donner un appui financier pour faciliter le départ.

La Fondation est instituée officiellement par la Nouvelle Société Helvétique. C'est le 30 août, de nouveau dans l'ancienne Salle de la Diète à Baden, sous la présidence de M. Oskar Reck, président central de la Nouvelle Société Helvétique, qu'a lieu la première réunion du Conseil de Fondation.

### 1968-1971

Cinq réunions du Conseil de Fondation ont eu lieu. Le 28 novembre 1968 à Soleure, le 14 avril 1969 à Genève, le 27 novembre 1969 à Berne, le 26 novembre 1970 à Zoug et le 25 novembre 1971 à Bellinzone.

### Mars 1972

Le Conseil fédéral décide d'allouer une prestation fédérale annuelle à la Fondation à partir de 1972.

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## Stiftangsurkunde

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### Artikel 1

Die Stiftung für eidenössische Zusammenarbeit fördert die Zusammenarbeit bei Problemen, die sich den Kantonen sowie anderen schweizerischen Gebietskörperschaften, Regionen oder Gruppen stellen, und erarbeitet eine wissenschaftliche Dokumentation des schweizerischen Föderalismus.

### Artikel 2

Die Stiftung verfolgt ihren Zweck insbesondere durch folgende Tätigkeiten:

a) Erarbeiten und Unterhalten einer Dokumentation über die bestehenden Formen der Zusammenarbeit öffentlich-rechtlicher Körperschaften;

b) Zusammenarbeit mit anderen koordinierenden Institutionen;

c) Vergebung von Forschungsaufträgen an Universitäten, Institute und Private;

d) Aufstellen von Zusammenarbeitsmodellen;

e) Übernahme von Arbeiten für kantonale Direktorenkonferenzen;

f) Förderung des direkten Gesprächs der an einem Problem Interessierten;

g) Publizistische Verbreitung des erarbeiteten Gedankengutes.

### Artikel 3

(1) Die Neue Helvetische Gesellschaft stellt ein Stiftungskapital von 25 000 Franken zur Verfügung. Die laufende Finanzierung der Arbeit der Stiftung erfolgt nach Verständigung im Stiftungsrat.

(2) In sich geschlossene Projekte werden außerhalb des Budgets nach Verständigung unter den daran Interessierten finanziert.

### Artikel 4

Der Sitz der Stiftung wird vom Stiftungsrat bestimmt.

### Artikel 5

(1) Statutarisch notwendige Organe sind Stiftungsrat, Arbeitsaussschuß und Kontrollstelle.

(2) Der Stiftungsrat legt mit Dreifünftelmehrheit der Mitglieder die weitere Organisation der Stiftung fest, wobei bis auf weiteres eine Geschäftsstelle eingesetzt wird.

(3) Für Einzelprobleme können Stiftungsrat und Arbeitsausschuß weitere Ausschüsse einsetzen. Sie können dabei auch Außenstehende beiziehen.

### Artikel 6

(1) Der Stiftungsrat ist das oberste Organ der Stiftung. Er soll in der Regel nicht mehr als sechzig Mitglieder umfassen.

(2) Jeder Kanton stellt einen Vertreter in den Stiftungsrat und die Neue Helvetische Gesellschaft, zugleich als Vertreterin der nicht direkt vertretenen Geldgeber, fünfzeln. Wahl und Abberufung dieser Stiftungsratsmitglieder ist Sache der ernennenden Körperschaften. Der Stiftungsrat kann sich im übrigen mit Dreifünftelmehrheit der Mitglieder durch Zuzug weiterer Persönlichkeiten ergänzen.

(3) Der Stiftungsrat faßt sämtliche Beschlüsse, für die er allein zuständig ist oder die er sich bei der Festlegung der Stiftungsorganisation nach Artikel 5, Absatz 2, seiber vorbehält.

### Artikel 7

(1) Der Stiftungsrat tritt mindestens einmal im Jahr im November und sonst auf Einberufung durch den Präsidenten oder den Arbeits-

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FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY

2313 RED RIVER AUSTIN, TEXAS 78705

June 4, 1973

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D. C.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

The organizing committee of the "Friends of the LBJ Library" has asked me to extend to you an invitation to become a charter member. The purpose of the Friends will be to support special activities and projects of the Library.

Shortly before he died, we met with President Johnson to discuss the formation of this organization. He gave it his enthusiastic endorsement. He wanted the LBJ Library to be an outstanding institution which would serve the needs of this Nation and its people in a unique and beneficial way. By giving special support beyond the scope of Government funding, the new organization can help achieve the President's wish. For example:

- Seminars on Problems of the Day

It can make possible a series of seminars and lectures, which will attract experts from many fields to focus attention on some of the pressing problems of the times, and contribute to finding the solutions.

- Changing Exhibits

It will help to keep a dynamic exhibit program active, to assure that visitors will find a greater understanding of the Office of the Presidency and the workings of their government.

- Documentary Films

It will promote the production of motion pictures from the Library's extensive collection, to enable Americans to perceive more clearly the dreams, the accomplishments and the activities of the 36th President of the United States.

A DIVISION OF THE LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON FOUNDATION

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-- Guide Service

It will assure the continuation of guide service so that tours of the Library can be made more meaningful for school and other groups.

-- Grants-In-Aid

It will provide financial aid to scholars who want to conduct research in the Johnson papers in the Library, but need assistance to do so.

Members of the Friends of the LBJ Library will receive an annual report telling about Library activities. They will have a yearly accounting of how funds have been used. The Library will host an annual event, to which all Friends will be invited.

How can you join? -- with a life-time membership for $1,000 (or more); or through a membership fee of $50 a year.

Checks should be made payable to Friends of the LBJ Library, and can be returned in the enclosed envelope.

The organizing committee of the Friends of the LBJ Library are Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Dean Rusk, Frank Stanton, Arthur Krim, Leonard Marks, Jack Valenti, Roy Wilkins, Marvin Watson, Barbara Jordan, Tom Johnson, Warren Woodward, Juanita Roberts, Horace Busby, Liz Carpenter, Bess Abell, Luci Nugent and Lynda Robb.

We hope you will join us in launching this organization to carry on the work of a great President.

Sincerely,

Tom Johnson
Former Special Assistant
to President Johnson

Enclosure

FRIENDS OF THE CAAJ LIBRARY

July 13, 1973

Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
West Wing, The White House
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I want
to extend our appreciation to you for becoming
a charter sustaining member of the Friends of
the LBJ Library.

As our procedures develop, you will be hearing
from us about the activities -- which you are
helping to make possible -- that will perpetuate
the hopes President Johnson had for his Library.

To launch your membership, you will receive a
copy of LBJ: Images Of A Vibrant Life, a book
about President Johnson which has just been
published by the Friends of the LBJ Library.

If at any time you have any questions concerning
the organization or the Library itself, please
feel free to call upon me.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON

7611863[4]

JUN 5 1976

Dear Knut:

Thank you very much for the opportunity to renew both our personal friendship and the close, harmonious relationship that exists between our two nations. Norwegian hospitality certainly lives up to its international reputation. You were more than kind, in addition, to offer the Peer Gynt knife and book, as well as the most thoughtful brooch for Nancy.

I also wish to congratulate Norway on the excellent organization of the NATO Ministerial. I naturally appreciated the opportunity to discuss candidly the wide range of substantive issues both at the formal meetings and in our personal talks.

I leave Norway with renewed confidence in Norway's steadfast and resolute position on NATO's northern flank, and with a better appreciation of the challenges facing your country's foreign policy. During my visit I sought to convey the great importance America attaches to Norwegian/American relations and to our solemn, unwavering commitment to common defense.

His Excellency
Knut Frydenlund,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway,
Oslo.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Washington, D.C. 20520

February 15, 1972

The Honorable J. W. Fulbright
The Senate
Washington, D.C. 20210

Dear Sir:

We, the State Department officers, are alarmed by a steady decline of the Department participation in our foreign policy. As concerned citizens we are compelled to express our concern about many serious consequences of decisions undertaken without any participation of the State Department, and in many cases even against its better judgement.

The American foreign policy, as shaped by the presidential advisers like Mr. Rostow and Mr. Kissinger, has involved our country in wars which are damaging to our international prestige. There was no doubt that the President could have moved faster to get out of Vietnam; considering his campaign pledge that he would end the war, it is remarkable that the U.S. is still involved three years later, and at a cost of 20,000 American lives.

The involvement of the United States in conflicts in Asia and the Middle East has brought about the neglect of some other very important regions such as Latin America where Communism is spreading larger and larger, The State Department has not prepared the most important policy-making moves like the Chinese one. As a result we have only a fragmentarily shaped foreign policy and this deprives the Congress of its constitutional prerogative of control over one of the most important government activities. The President and Mr. Kissinger worked alone over the problem of what the U.S. interests are in the Indian subcontinent. While the State Department officials concluded that India would be satisfied with a victory limited to East Pakistan, the White House came up with what was described as "certain" knowledge that India aimed at threatening the survival of West Pakistan itself. The U.S. interests in South Asia were wrecked by American support of the loser, and our bargaining position in far more important areas was seriously threatened.

The State Department needs a lot of reforms to make American diplomacy more creative and effective for the 1970's. But the Department is downgraded to control no more than seven per cent of all our foreign policy resources. Even in U.S. embassies abroad only about 20 per cent of officials and employees are listed as State Department personnel.

There is a puzzle as far as the role played by Mr. Rogers is concerned. By tradition, the Secretary of State is supposed to be the President's chief adviser in foreign policy. Mr. Rogers is an experienced negotiator. He has a great feel for public opinion. He knows that present commitments abroad are way out of whack with the national mood. He has been more often right than wrong on most of the broad issues.

J. W. FULBRIGHT
ARKANSAS

COMMITTEES:
FOREIGN RELATIONS (CHAIRMAN)
FINANCE
JOINT ECONOMIC
DEMOCRATIC POLICY

United States Senate

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510

LEE WILLIAMS
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

DAVID P. LAMBERT
LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT

PARKER WESTBROOK
SPECIAL ASSISTANT

August 19, 1974

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

Dear Mr. Secretary:

I have just received a letter from Mr. Roswell Garst, a copy of which I enclose. Inasmuch as our efforts in some other directions are having heavy going, this approach by Mr. Garst, apparently reciprocated by the Russians, might be viewed favorably.

If at all possible, I do think it would be helpful to our efforts at detente if you could spend even fifteen minutes with Mr. Garst, just to hear his views and so he could tell the Russians that he saw you. I know that the Russians think very well of him, and further, I think this approach could have beneficial effect in the Midwest on the question of detente. I believe that a number of Senators who may be indifferent to detente generally would be favorably impressed if they knew of these activities. Personally, I think they and we should put forth more effort into Mr. Garst's activities rather than continuing to build more nuclear bombs, and I am confident the ordinary citizen would agree, even though the bureaucrats don't.

I will call you about the appointment, but I wanted
you to have a copy of Mr. Garst's letter.

With best wishes, I am

JWF:at

PIONEER®

GARST & THOMAS HYBRID CORN COMPANY

COON RAPIDS, IOWA 50058 / PHONE (AC 712) 684-2211

August 7, 1974

COMMITTEE ON

AUG 9 1974

FOREIGN RELATIONS

Senator J. W. Fulbright, Arkansas
United States Senate
Washington, D. C. 20510

Dear Senator Fulbright:

In the fall of 1971, at my suggestion, the then Secretary of Agriculture Hardin invited the Minister of Agriculture of the Soviet Union, Mr. V. V. Matskevich to visit the United States and see the progress in agriculture since he had visited the U.S.A. in 1955 -- when Matskevich had headed the Soviet group that year when the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. traded farm groups.

In the years between 1955 and 1971 -- I had visited the Soviet Union first in the fall of 1955 -- again in 1956 -- then in 1959 -- then in 1963 and my nephew had spent a month there in 1960. And we had entertained a number of agricultural delegations in the intervening years.

When Khrushchev was "demoted", I did not return to the Soviet Union until after his death -- nor did I correspond with him, because I thought it would embarrass him.

Secretary of Agriculture Hardin did invite Matskevich in the fall of 1971 -- and he did come to the U.S.A. for a short visit and I did visit with him in Des Moines. He had always acted as my host in the Soviet Union.

In the fall of 1971 when he was here I explained that *grain sorghum* seed had been hybridized and that in the western half of Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas -- whereever annual rainfall was less than 24" to 26" that grain sorghum had replaced corn on practically all "feed grain" acres. (For your information, the bulk of the Soviet Union has less than 20 inches of annual precipitation.)

He was interested -- so I sent him 500 pounds of hybrid grain sorghum seed with my compliments.

It did so well that the Ministry of Agriculture bought 700 tons of seed for planting in 1973 -- and 900 tons of seed for planting in 1974. And they sent delegations over both in the fall of 1972 and 1973 of top people -- geneticists, engineers, etc.

In the spring of 1974 I told them that if they would want seed for 1975 planting we would expand our seed acreage. But they said they were not interested in asking us to do that! So we thought they had made some other arrangements.

(Incidentally, V. V. Matskevich left his position of Minister of Agriculture and is now the Soviet Ambassador in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Mr. Polyansky is now Minister of Agriculture.)

A week ago -- on August 1st -- we received a phone call from the new
Soviet Agricultural Attache in Washington, Mr. Vladimir Sheremetev, stating that
the Minister of Agriculture of the Soviet Union was anxious to have me -- and my
nephew, John Chrystal, and Dr. William Brown, the head of the research depart-
ment of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., come to the U.S.S.R. at our earliest
convenience.

We have accepted the invitation and have agreed to arrive in Moscow
August 22nd and to stay until August 30th. We go as guests of the Ministry of
Agriculture of the Soviet Union.

Mr. Chrystal and Dr. Brown and I are all a bit puzzled at this rather
sudden invitation.

My own judgement is that the world shortage of food -- and the world
high prices of both food grains and feed grains is the basic cause!

They know that I talked about the effectiveness of fertilizer, the effective-
ness of hybridization of corn and sorghums -- the use of urea as protein supplement
-- the first time I visited the Soviet Union 19 years ago.

* * * * *

The newspapers -- and television programs of the last two or three days
have convinced me that President Nixon will not be president long -- that resignation
or impeachment are probable in the rather near future.

When and if Vice President Ford becomes President, it is almost certain
that Secretary of State Kissinger will continue in his present position -- and be
one of the key men in the Ford administration.

It might be well for me to have met Secretary Kissinger before I go to the
Soviet Union.

The Russian citizens all know who I am because when Khrushchev visited
the Garst Farm in 1959 he saw that pictures were enlarged and that they appeared
everywhere as proof of his own high interest in agriculture!

(Only 5% of Americans are farmers -- but probably 30 or 35% of the citizens
of the U.S.S.R. are farmers.)

I can come to Washington any day, just to meet and visit with Kissinger,
if you think it worthwhile and if he also thinks it worthwhile.

United States Senate

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510

November 22, 1974

Dear Nancy and Henry:

You are without a doubt two of the most thoughtful people I know. And you must have a crystal ball to have known how low I was on fruit and how happy I would be to see that perfectly beautiful bowl of it...and not only fruit, but preserves for my rather uninteresting breakfasts and candies which Betty comes in and works on promptly, so we are both enjoying your kindness and are deeply appreciative of it.

You were also both so kind to telephone. I hope you are now together again, and that life will be somewhat less strenuous for you for a while.

Betty joins me in best wishes to you both, and with much appreciation, I am