University of San Diego

Distinguished Professor of Global Diplomacy
Dr. John G. Stoessinger

APR 27 2001

April 23, 2001

Dr. Henry Kissinger
350 Park Avenue
Twenty-sixth floor
New York, NY 10022

Dear Henry,

It was truly wonderful to see you last Friday afternoon, although I was distressed to hear that your heart attack was considerably more severe than the media had indicated. Also, the news about the loss of vision in your eye concerns me deeply and I would like to ask you to let me have more specific information about this event. With your permission I would like to make some inquiries, (without mentioning your name, of course) at the University of California at San Diego. They have an outstanding medical school there with a great deal of research going on on the frontiers of medical science.

Our reminiscing on Friday about the dubious behavior toward you of some of our former colleagues in academia during the most difficult years of your White House tenure made me recall Hans Morgenthau as an extraordinary exception. Hans, as you know of course, never wavered in his deep and genuine affection for you. During his last years when he came to dinner at my house on an almost weekly basis, he often talked about your visit to New York in a flight from Washington during a snowstorm to honor him in on his seventieth birthday. He was truly moved by your generous gesture on that occasion. I took the liberty of mentioning it in an article that I wrote about you and Hans in the enclosed volume (P.236). I have a beautiful picture of yourself and Hans, taken on that occasion, which I am having reproduced and will send you as soon as possible.

Thank you for agreeing to be a candidate for the Kyoto Prizes, and I shall pursue the matter with all deliberate speed.

Thank you also for reminding me that angiograms are no longer essential to the discovery of the status of one's arteries. I shall take immediate steps in that direction.

It would be marvelous to welcome you and Nancy to my home in Encinitas to watch the sunset before enjoying an illegal Schnitzel. In the meantime, I remain

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