NATIONAL REVIEW

215 Lexington Ave., New York, New York 10016

Tel. (212) 679-7330

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.

SEP 0 5 2003

September 2, 2003

Dear Henry:

Thanks loads for the book, which resides in my office and
which I will reclaim in two days. I thought the review this
morning in the *Times* was superb, one more acknowledgment of the
singularity of your role in American history. Pat joins in
affectionate greetings--it was so fine having you and Nancy here
for dinner.

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
350 Park Avenue, 26th Floor
New York, NY 10022

HENRY A. KISSINGER

August 15, 2003

Dear Bill:

I thought you might like to have an inscribed copy of
my new book, CRISIS: The Anatomy of Two Major
Foreign Policy Crises.

Enclosure

Mr. William F. Buckley, Jr.
NATIONAL REVIEW
215 Lexington Avenue
4th Floor
New York, NY 10016

TWENTY-SIXTH FLOOR · 350 PARK AVENUE · NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10022 · (212) 759-7919
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DATE

OCT 24 2002

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Buckley, Bill

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Jessee

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* 11/4 -> 1ft wd that HAK IS OUT
* of country -> mill see when
* he returns

* 11/13 -> HAK called - 1ft wd.

* 11/25 HAK said he'd handle
* w/ Buckley

DC OFFICE:
Christie / Jody / Lisa

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In response to this letter, you placed a call to Peter Robinson on Nov. 13. He was not there but we left word in his voicemail. We have not heard back. Did you want to do anything further?

I'll mention to Buckley on Thanksgiving ✓

Will call again

Leave it alone

JI

From: Jessee

November 1, 2002

RE: Request from Buckley on behalf of Peter Robinson

Bill Buckley forwards a letter from Peter Robinson, Hoover Institute. Robinson is working on a book about President Reagan, tentatively called, "Tear Down This Wall, and Other Lessons I Learned from the Gipper". Would like to include a scene about you - explains that the Buckley's were hosting a dinner about 10 years ago and after dinner you spoke. In your speech you said you had originally underestimated Reagan, to whom you now assigned much of the credit for ending the Cold War. Apparently you went on to describe a visit you made to Russia (see paragraph 3 of attached letter). To sum it up, Robinson wants to verify your remarks and have you tell the story for the record.

Buckley writes he would appreciate if you were in touch with Robinson and reminds you
missed being on his program last year.

Schedule telephone call to Robinson ✓ Gene

Prefer _______________

HOOVER INSTITUTION

ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE

October 11, 2002

Mr. William F. Buckley, Jr.
*National Review*
215 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(212) 679-7330

Dear Bill,

As you know, I'm working on a book about President Reagan, a speechwriter's memoir, tentatively entitled *Tear Down This Wall, And Other Lessons I Learned from the Gipper*. The book will be published next year by ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins. I'd like to include a scene that involves Henry Kissinger, and I wonder whether you could advise me about just how I might proceed.

About a decade ago, you and Pat hosted a dinner at your home with the intention of permitting young conservatives—there must have been a couple of dozen of us present—to meet Dr. Kissinger. After dinner, Dr. Kissinger spoke. He very graciously conceded that he had originally underestimated Ronald Reagan, to whom he now assigned much of the credit for ending the cold war.

Dr. Kissinger went on to describe a visit he had recently made to Russia—this would have been only a year or 18 months after the Soviet Union had ceased to exist. While in Russia, Dr. Kissinger had spoken to a number of high-ranking former Soviets, including several military men. He had asked each why the Soviet Union collapsed. All replied that the Strategic Defense Initiative had proven decisive. When Reagan refused to surrender SDI at Reykjavik, the former Soviets said, they knew they had lost.

The point was not that Ronald Reagan had somehow won the cold war single-handedly—Dr. Kissinger made a point of describing the conflict as a 40-year, bipartisan struggle—but that Reagan had had the insight and courage to bring new pressures to bear on the Soviets, giving them, so to speak, the final, irresistible push.

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DEC 17 2003

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DEC 17 2003

Wm. F. Buckley Jr. * 215 Lexington Ave * New York 10016

December 7, 2003

Dr. Henry A Kissinger
New York

Dear Henry:

It was fine visiting with you and Nancy on
Thanksgiving, as indispensable in our itinerary these
years as a visit to Great Elm. Nancy suffered well through
her tribulation. I hope you detained Conrad's helicopter
to ferry you back and forth from New York. I read with
enormous interest your tribute to Fritz Kraemer. I liked
especially your treatment of the prophetic vs. the
contingent. I moved in that direction some years ago,
using paradigmatic and prudent. I think yours more
effective. I wish I had met Mr. K, though I'm not sure
he'd have tolerated me, though perhaps it is true that I
am more prophet-bound than some of his students. I
returned your text because there is handwriting on it,
and perhaps you want to file it away. The last few pages
are there in duplicate, in different typeface.

Take care, my friend. I am always here, at you
service, and devotedly so. XB

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872 words

Eulogy for Fritz Kraemer

Wednesday, October 8, 2003

Fritz Kraemer was the greatest single influence of my formative years, and his inspiration remained with me even during the last thirty years when he would not speak to me.

We met in 1944 in Camp Claiborne, Louisiana. We were both privates in the 84th Infantry Division. I served in G Company of the 335th Regiment, Kraemer in the G-2 section of division headquarters. We were both refugees from Germany, I by necessity, Kraemer by choice. He was thirty-six years of age; I nineteen. He had two Ph. D. degrees. I had two years of night college in accounting.

When I first saw Kraemer, he was dressed in a German uniform, wore a monocle, and carried a riding crop. The occasion was a speech to the regiment in which I was serving. The subject was the moral and political stakes of the war, and the Commanding General thought Kraemer's outfit would endow his

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presentation with verisimilitude. Kraemer spoke with passion, erudition, and overwhelming force, as if he were addressing each member of the regiment individually. For the first time in my life—and perhaps the only one—[at least I can recall no other such occurrence—] I wrote to a speaker how much he had moved me. A few days later Kraemer came to where my company was training. Now the uniform was American, but he still wore the monocle around his neck and continued to carry his riding crop. He invited me to have dinner with him at the enlisted men's club at which he questioned me about my views and spoke to me about his values.

Out of this encounter grew a relationship that changed my life. After the division reached Europe, Kraemer arranged to have me transferred to the G-2 section. We worked together and, after work, we walked the streets of battle-scared towns at night during total blackouts while Kraemer spoke of history and postwar challenges in his stentorian voice—sometimes in German, tempting nervous sentries. Over the next decades Kraemer [shaped my reading and

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thinking, influenced my choice of college,〕 awakened my interest in political
philosophy and history, inspired both my undergraduate and graduate theses,
and became an integral and indispensable part of my life. He was always there
to discuss my concerns; he never talked of his own needs to me, and I doubt to
anyone else, as if such an admission would derogate from his mission.

Kraemer dedicated his life to fighting against the triumph of the expedient
over the principled, "Intellectuals," Kraemer once said, "have always preached
that everything is relative and that there are no absolute values... The result is
spiritual emptiness. Everything is possible and therefore nothing is." "The worst
thing about a loss of faith is not the fact that someone has stopped believing but
that they are ready to believe anything."

Kraemer fought his battle not so much by seeking to influence
policymakers--though on occasion he had that opportunity--but by giving lectures
and above all by discovering in young people qualities they did not always know
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encouraging them towards a life of duty and honor. He lived an ascetic, nearly monastic existence. His learning matched his commitment. For decades he spent much of his day clipping newspaper articles from all over the world, marking significant passages, and filing them by major categories--a one-man, handmade internet. He asked nothing for himself. He refused all promotions beyond civil service grades.

Kraemer's values were absolute. Like the ancient prophets, he made no concessions to human frailty or to historic evolution; he treated intermediate solutions as derogation from principle.

And therein lay the source of our later estrangement. When I became part of the world of policymaking, I entered the realm of the contingent. For the prophet, there can be no gap between conception and implementation; the policymaker must build the necessary from the possible. For the prophet, values are eternal, independent of time. For the policymaker, absolute values must be approached in stages, each of which is by definition imperfect. The prophet thinks in terms of crusades; the policymaker hedges against the possibility of

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human fallibility. [The policymaker, if he wants to avoid stagnation, needs the prophet's inspiration, but he cannot live by all the prophet's prescriptions in the short term; he must leave something to history.]

Kraemer could not accept this distinction. And so we did not speak for thirty years. He felt he needed to make a demonstration--even a personal sacrifice--to vindicate the absoluteness of his convictions. It was not personal. During the decades of silence, he never spoke of me except with respect nor I of him with anything but devotion.

As Kraemer enters the realm of eternity, and I approach it, I want to thank his children, Sven and Madeleine, for allowing me this occasion of reconciliation with an extraordinary man who will be part of my life as long as I draw breath. Kraemer will remain to me, as to so many in this room whose lives he touched, a symbol of commitment and dedication, a beacon that, amidst the turmoil of the moment, guides us to the transcendental.

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When I became part of the world of policymaking, I entered
the realm of the contingent. For the prophet, there can be no
gap between conception and implementation; the
policymaker must build the necessary from the possible. For
the prophet, values are eternal, independent of time. For the
policymaker, absolute values must be approached in stages,
each of which is by definition imperfect. The prophet thinks
in terms of crusades; the policymaker hedges against the
possibility of human fallibility. [The policymaker, if he wants
to avoid stagnation, needs the prophet's inspiration, but he

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DEC 22 2003

Wm. F. Buckley Jr. * 215 Lexington Ave. * New York 10016

December 17, 2003

To the Editor

The New York Observer

Sir:

Your editorial on Conrad Black was febrile with hate which one has to assume is personal. I mean, never mind the current controversy over Hollinger Inc., anyone who writes of Black that he is a "pretentious windbag," "sleazy," "pompous," "grotesque," has got to be moved by adversarial animus. The author, if he knows Black, is nevertheless ignorant of him, incapable, where Black is concerned, of clear thought. Your tirade goes so far as to include in the indictment "a rabble of Chicago-area weeklies." What makes those weeklies rabble? I mean really, exactly what? So also dismissing his "media debris." What made those Canadian papers "debris?" You write witheringly, or attempt to do so, when you speak of Henry Kissinger as a "chi-chi celebrity." You mean, like Zsa Zsa Gabor? What's chi-chi about the former Secretary of State, the weightiest writer on foreign policy of the century? Was Churchill chi-chi? You speak of Black's "dubious" peerage, contrasting him to Lord Beaverbrook. Why was Beaverbrook's non-dubious? And Beaverbrook's legacy is the *Daily Express*. Black gives us the *Daily Telegraph*. You reach what you clearly thought the high point of your expose by reporting that Black's book is selling at half price at the discount table of the Strand. What book is not selling at half price at the Strand? And what, by the way--other than being a word that evidently characterizes Lord Black--is a "goniff?"

You are entitled to ask how I presume to write with ostensible authority on the matter, and why irately. I write because I have known Conrad Black for fifteen years. Since your mind inclines in that direction, hear this: He has never donated a nickel to any of my enterprises. And then, why do I write irately? Before your time in journalism is done, take pains to ask disinterestedly any human being who knows him. You will learn that he is extraordinarily learned, profoundly instructed, modest in demeanor, eloquent in speech and in kindnesses.

Yours,

Wm. F. Buckley Jr.

DEC 2 9 2003

December 18, 2003

Dear Special Friends:

On January 19, the editors' fortnightly dinner will expand with nine guests, invited to share that dinner and the very special pre-dinner recital by Andrew Rangell. He is a superb pianist. I am not at liberty to disclose what exactly he will play in his 45-minute concert—he is refreshing his repertoire, which includes resplendent recorded works of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Scarlatti. You must hear him, besides which it would give the editors such pleasure to have you share dinner with them.

You will need to come at 7:30 P.M. (73 East 73rd Street) for a drink before the concert, which will begin at 7:45. At 8:30, we will dine. Do please advise Dorothy McCartney at 212-679-7330 that you can be with us.

Wm. F. Buckley Jr.

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November 12, 2002

Dear Ms. Press Secretary:

Per our telephone conversation on October 28, 2002, I would like to express again my interest in an appointment with Dr. H. A. Kissinger, to whom I am forwarding the attached letter.

For your information, please know that during the period from December 19, 2002 through January 10, 2003 I am scheduled to travel to Europe. However, I am available for the requested appointment on any day before or after this time frame.

As indicated above, I could be reached at the following address:

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Thank you for your time and attention to my request.

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Former Prime Minister of Bulgaria

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FAX NO. : 359 2 9804484

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Република България
Президент

ДО
Г-Н ХЕНРИ КИСИНДЖЪР

Уважаеми господин Кисинджър,

Бих искал да Ви поздравя по случай Вашата 80-годишнина и да Ви пожелая добро здраве и нови прояви в публицистиката.

Радвам се, че имам възможност да направя moVA като Президент на Република България в годината, в която честваме 100-годишнината от установяването на дипломатически отношения между Съединените американски щати и Република България, за чието позитивно развитие Вие имате лична заслуга.

Като историк аз добре познавам и високо ценя Вашите академични трудове и анализи, а като политик дълбоко уважавам Вашата роля в процеса на разведряването по време на студената война.

Приемете, господин Кисинджър, уверенията ми в най-висока почит към Вас.

София, 27 май 2003 г.

Георги Първанов
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Translation

Republic of Bulgaria
The President

Sofia, 27 May 2003

Dear Mr. Kissinger,

I would like to congratulate you on your 80th birthday and to wish you good health and further success in your writing career.

I am happy to do so in my capacity as the President of the Republic of Bulgaria in the year marking the 100th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between the USA and Bulgaria, for the positive development of which you have personally contributed.

As a historian I am well familiar with and highly appreciate your academic works and analyses, and as a politician I deeply respect your role in the process of détente in the Cold war era.

Please, Mr. Kissinger, be assured of my highest respect for you.

/s/

Georgi Parvanov

MR. HENRY KISSINGER

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SIR:

Amb. Elena Poptodorova of Bulgaria asks you to join the Honorary Committee for commemorative events for the 60th Anniversary of a historic act of courage and heroism: the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from the Nazi Holocaust in 1943. They plan on organizing a number of events in D.C., New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc. No financial or time commitment, just use of name.

Fine, OK to lend name __________

Not interested in lending name __________

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EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA
Washington D.C.

AMBASSADOR

2 January, 2003

Dear Mr. Kissinger,

In March 2003 the Bulgarian people will commemorate the 60-th anniversary of a historic act of courage and heroism: the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from the Nazi Holocaust in 1943. In that critical moment of history not even one of Bulgaria's 50 000 Jews was deported to the Nazi gas chambers. The uniqueness and the beauty of this act was that the entire nation – the people, the Parliament, the King and the Orthodox Church – stood united and confronted the Nazi terror, thus saving their Jewish compatriots from extermination.

I am convinced that it is even more important to mark this anniversary at a time of resurging anti-Semitism in Europe, which, logically, never occurred in Bulgaria.

The Embassy of Bulgaria in the United States, supported by the Bulgarian expatriate community and joined by our friends from the American Jewish community is planning to organize a number of events (concerts, exhibitions, roundtable meetings and receptions) in Washington D.C., New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and other US cities to commemorate the historic rescue of the Bulgarian Jews during World War II.

I have the honor and the pleasure to invite you to join the Honorary Committee for the commemorative events that will be held in different parts of the United States.

Please advise us at your earliest convenience whether you would agree to join the Honorary Committee so that your name would be printed on the programs and invitations.

I avail myself of this opportunity to wish you a happy holiday season.

While looking forward to a positive reply from you, I remain

HENRY A. KISSINGER
CSIS TRUSTEE

1621 22nd Street, NW; Washington, DC 20008; Tel: 202-387-0174; Fax: 202-234-7973

www.bulgaria-embassy.org; E-mail: office@bulgaria-embassy.org

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2 January, 2003

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JAN - 9 2002

2 January, 2003

Dear Mr. Kissinger,

DATE

OCT 8 9 2003

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FROM : BNT

FAX NO. : 0035929871871

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OCT 09 2003

BULGARIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION

Director General

29, San Stefano Str., 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria, tel. (+359 2)963 3095, tel./fax. (+359 2)987 1871

TO: Dr Henry Kissinger

Dear Dr. Kissinger.

On behalf of the Management of the Bulgarian National Television and me personally I have the honor to invite you as a guest for a satellite interview in one of our programs - "Every Sunday" which has the highest ratings in Bulgaria.

"Every Sunday" is the most popular political and cultural magazine weekly program aired simultaneously on Channel 1 and on the Satellite Channel of BNT. On Channel 1 the show has an audience of 2.5 million people aged from 15 to 55 (which constitutes 65 % of all audience shares in Bulgaria) and the Satellite Channel targets the Bulgarians living on five continents. Numerous outstanding personalities have taken part in this program such as Paulo Coelho, Michail Gorbachov, Andrea Bocelli, Andrey Konchalovski, Michelle Platini, Steven Baldwin, Gore Vidal, Goran Bregovic, Antonio Di Pietro, Jackie Collins, Tom Clancy, Dario Fo, Melvin Goodman, prof. Nicholas Wald, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, etc.

"Every Sunday" TV program is aired between 17.30 and 20.00 (GMT+2) and the interview is taken live through satellite transmission between 17.00 and 18.00 GMT. We are ready to book a studio for this interview from any American city which may be convenient for you.

In Sofia the interview will be conducted from the "Every Sunday" studio at the Bulgarian National TV by one of the most prominent journalists in Bulgaria - Mr. Kevork Kevorkjan who has more than 25 years of experience as a TV anchor and interviewer. The interview is composed of questions asked by viewers and thus will certainly evoke immense interest in Bulgaria since our new-rising democracy will highly appreciate the words of one of the most prominent politicians of our time.

Thank you in advance. We will be very grateful if you help us satisfy the great interest of the Bulgarian audience.

Thank you and best regards!

Kiril Gotsev.

General Director

Bulgarian National Television

JUN 3 0 2003

Dear Henry Kissinger,

My name is Michelle Burchfiel. I am writing to you to ask for your help. I would like you to
meet my son. His name is Ezekiel. He was born January 6, 2002 with Down syndrome.

**He is the light of my life!**

Ezekiel has had to face many surgeries because of the Down syndrome. Some of the surgeries that he has had are open-heart surgery and a tracheotomy. He is finally now at home with the assistance of a ventilator (life support system).

I was fired from my job for refusal to leave my baby alone in ICU at Arkansas Children's Hospital and return to work. This is a decision that I do not and will never regret. But I have been forced to try and find another way to earn a living at home until Ezekiel is better. So I wrote a book of inspirational poems in hopes of finding a publisher to publish it. The good Lord above blessed me and answered my prayers. Creation House Press wants to publish my book, but since I am a first time author, they will only publish my book under a co-publishing contract. This means that I will have to purchase a number of books on my own.

I have no money and have tried to get a loan to cover the expenses of publishing the book, but no bank will make a loan to a person without a job. I need to raise $15,000.00 to publish my book. I am sending you some of the poems out of my book to examine. If you believe that they are worthy will you please send a donation to help get this book published? This is very important to me. It is the only way that I can think of to make a living out of my home.

You can contact me at:

Michelle Burchfiel
P O Box 389
Cedarville, Arkansas 72932

Precious Moments

My most precious moments I have spent alone
With our God and father in places unknown
He's always given me his undivided attention
And his words are filled with exhortation

He speaks to my heart and shows me the way
And walks by my side through every day
His imprint is perfectly clear in my soul
For with him - I am - completely whole

The most valuable thing that I have is my soul
To spend eternity in heaven is my ultimate goal
I'm never closer than when I'm in prayer
There is nothing in my life that can compare

Precious moments in life are the special events
Places in time that embrace life's essence
The times in my life that I cherish most
Were spent in the presence of the Holy Ghost

I Trusted You

Through all of my life I have always known,
That you were there and I'd never be alone.
My life has not always been trouble free,
But I can say that you have truly blessed me.
Our relationship has always been strong,
So I couldn't understand when things went wrong.
My child was born with a disability,
My life would change along with my entire family.
I asked the Lord what did I do?
Above all else I trusted you!
I put my faith in you alone
And now felt like I'd been disowned.
I ask you Lord, I ask you why?
Can't you hear my heart felt cry?
The Lord replied through my son's sweet touch.
I need your love; I need you so much.
This child is fragile and needs lots of care,
So much more than most people could bare.
I knew exactly what you would do
For you see - *I Trusted You*.

07/05 '03 MI

09:54 FAX +49 89 9250 3997

BUKO Dr. BUKDA

Hubert Burda

Publisher and Chief Executive Officer
Hubert Burda Media

MAY 07 2003

Arabellast. 23
81925 Munich

phone: +49 (0)89-92 50 22 70

fax: +49 (0)89-92 50 39 97

email: burdahu@burda.com

Dear Henry,

As always, it was a pleasure seeing you last week in
New York. Indeed, I very much enjoyed our breakfast
discussions, and spending time with you is always a very
enriching learning experience.

Our discussions have led me to conclude that there is
much that business leaders can do on both sides of the
Atlantic to improve US-German relations. In this respect, I
will personally contact my colleagues in the German
publishing and media industry to explore ways in which
business can take a greater role in promoting the long
standing ties between our two countries. I will certainly
keep you informed of developments in this regard.

I would like to also use this opportunity to extend to you
my appreciation for hosting lunch at the Brook Club. I
thought the event went well and that the diverse group in
attendance led to a very interesting discussion.

Looking forward to having the privilege of seeing you
again in the near future and in the meantime, I remain with
all my warmest and kindest regards,

5 May 2003

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Kissinger Associates, Inc.

by fax: 001-212-759-0042

MAY-07-2003 03:53

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August 19, 2003

Dear Augie:

Enclosure

Mr. August A. Busch III
Chairman
Anheuser-Busch Companies
One Busch Place
St. Louis, MO 63118-1852

HENRY A. KISSINGER

May 30, 2003

Dear Mr. President:

I was very touched by your and Mrs. Bush's very gracious message on my 80th birthday. It meant a great deal to me, and I thank you for your thoughtfulness.

The Honorable
George W. Bush
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500

NOV 17 2003

Amanda Henry

From: Richard Fisher [rfisher@richardfisher.net]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:08 AM
To: ahenry@kmaglobal.com
Cc: staperoy@yahoo.com
Subject: FW: Interview with Mr Richard Fisher for the Raffles Conversation series in the Business Times, Singapore

Dear Henry:

Here is an article an interview I gave in Singapore three weeks ago. The quotes are accurate but the background is a tab bit distorted. (For the record, my Nancy will be shocked to read that her family was in publishing-- we wish!; they got Value Partners and Fisher Capital mixed up but the returns are accurate and the way we did it properly summarized; my mother was a maid, not a cook-- her mother was the cook in the boarding house; and, of course, we spoke English at home in Mexico but not in school). Otherwise it came out pretty fine. The quote from Bill Gates Sr.'s American Academy of Arts and Sciences speech is a keeper. I am indeed a very lucky man.

I trust you will agree with the conclusions I drew on China at the end of the article. (The reference to Deng, by the way, goes back to when I accompanied Mike Blumethal in Beijing to negotiate the settlement of counter claims in 1979; Stape was there too).

Richard Fisher

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From: Erin Ennis [mailto:eennis@richardfisher.net]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 9:54 AM
To: Richard Fisher
Subject: Fw: Interview with Mr Richard Fisher for the Raffles Conversation series in the Business Times, Singapore

Business Times Singapore

15 Nov 2003

THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
An American tale

Son of poor immigrant parents, Richard Fisher has made good in the political and business arena. The former US deputy trade representative, who counts President George W Bush among his personal friends, shares his colourful experiences with VIKRAM KHANNA

'MINE is a very American story,' says Richard Fisher, vice-chairman of Kissinger-McLarty Associates, one-time fund manager and US deputy trade representative, China and Latin America expert, philanthropist, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and personal friend of US President George W Bush.

The son of poor, uneducated immigrants from Mexico (though his father was originally a bus driver from Australia and his mother a boarding house cook from South Africa), Mr Fisher went on to fashion a dazzling career that not only made him seriously rich, but also catapulted him to the highest ranks of the US government. As Bill Gates Sr (the father of the founder of Microsoft) put it, he won 'the ovarian lottery'.

Mr Fisher, who learnt to speak English only at the age of 12, got himself educated at Harvard, Oxford and, for good measure, Stanford. He made millions of dollars as managing partner of a hedge fund called the Value Fund in the 1980s and 1990s, returning a compounded 24 per cent a year to his investors for almost a decade. Later, he and his wife, who comes from the wealthy Collins publishing family, returned a good deal of their

money back to society through a web of charities and fellowship endowments (including the Fisher Distinguished International Fellowship at Harvard University, of which Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew was the first recipient).

Mr Fisher had a brief flirtation with electoral politics in 1993 when he ran for the US Senate in his home state of Texas, on the Democratic ticket with then-Governor Ann Richards ('It was my mid-life crisis,' he chuckles.) Their opponents: current US President George W Bush and Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. The Bush team won. 'The country's better off because I wasn't elected,' Mr. Fisher muses self-deprecatingly. 'It was an interesting experience, though . . . I got to eat at every Dairy Queen in the state of Texas - that's a major accomplishment.'

But he bounced back soon enough, though into his preferred world of policy rather than politics. After cashing in his chips from his investments ('that's how I could afford to serve in the government of the United States') he joined the second Clinton administration as Deputy Trade Representative, taking charge of US trade policy and negotiations in Asia, Latin America, and Canada. He then teamed up with former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and erstwhile White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty at Kissinger Associates, one of the bluest of America's blue-chip strategic advisory firms.

Given his rich and varied professional baggage, Mr Fisher is a trove of stories and anecdotes about people and events, which he eagerly shares. To start with his life as a fund manager, how did he manage to return 24 per cent a year to his investors for almost a decade? His firm punted on Chinese stocks, he says, starting in the early 1990s with arbitrating between so-called 'A' shares (which were for locals) and 'B' shares (which were open to foreigners), and then riding the run-up of 'red-chips' and 'H' shares (Hongkong-listed China shares) in the Hongkong market all the way to their peak in 1997, when he sold everything just before joining the Clinton administration. 'So we participated in the run-up and didn't participate in the run-down . . . Luck is the best way to get rich, by the way,' he says modestly.

Value Partners under Mr Fisher also bought shares when they were first issued in the (now) giant Finnish telecoms company, Nokia and the German software powerhouse, SAP. And it bought into the US Insurance giant AIG after the US stock market crash of 1987 at US $4.25 and into the mortgage aggregator, Fannie Mae, at US$2.75. And it rode those shares up as well.

But one of his best stories from his investment years was how he won a US$250,000 bet with the Chairman of Nomura, Japan's biggest brokerage. 'Two days after the Japanese market peaked in 1990, the Nikkei was a little over 39,000, the Chairman of Nomura asked me at lunch, 'Where do you think our market is going, would you be a buyer here?' And I said, 'Sir, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I wouldn't buy a single Japanese stock - they're way overpriced'. He asked, 'Where would you be a buyer?'. I said, 'Maybe when the Nikkei's around 12,000'. '

'He couldn't believe the market would go down that far. So he reached across the table, and said, 'Is that a bet?' I said, 'OK'. No money was mentioned.'

'A few years later, I got a phone call from a member of the Board of Nomura. He said, 'You won a bet, the Chairman asked me to call you, where would you like the money?'. I said, 'We didn't mention an amount, why not give it to some charity or something?' He said, 'Richard, it's US$250,000 so where do you want it sent?' My immediate reaction was, 'oh gosh, what if I had lost? On where to send the money, I said, well, I want to establish a Japanese language programme at St Marks School, the finest secondary boys school in Texas. And with that money we established a programme under which all St Marks boys have to take mandatory Japanese language class from third grade to eighth grade. And it was all done on a handshake. Thank God I didn't lose!'

In his career as a trade negotiator, Mr Fisher is credited with being one of the initiators of the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.

'It came about because in the Clinton administration, we thought we'd put together a package of bilaterals called the 'P-5' because they involved five parties: The US, Chile, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. Chile was first in line. However, President Clinton happened to come to an Apec summit in Brunei in November 2000 and play a famous game of midnight golf with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Mr Goh suggested that we proceed and the

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President said yes. The next thing, I got a call in Washington from Air Force One (the US President's plane), saying we're going to go ahead with Singapore. So we got Singapore up and running, along with Chile. Now, President Bush has closed both those negotiations.

The negotiation with Singapore was 'fairly smooth sailing', he says - because Singapore was considered 'symbolically critical' and because a deal was do-able. 'First, you're a huge entrepot for goods and services - as well as culture - in this part of the world. You have no agriculture other than orchids and a few other items, so we have nothing to argue about there. It's a progressive society. And it seemed natural to have a free trade agreement in this part of the world, and something we could accomplish with a sophisticated trading partner.'

But is bilateralism the route the US is going to take in trade policy from here on? Maybe, suggests Mr Fisher, although it hasn't quite given up on multilateralism via the World Trade Organisation (WTO) - not officially anyway - despite the collapse of the WTO talks in Cancun in September, partly because a number of developing countries failed to reach a compromise with the US and the EU on key issues.

'What happened in Cancun is what I call the 'Unctadisation' of the WTO,' says Mr Fisher. 'A lot of these countries fell back on the rhetoric of the 1960s, led by Brazil and India. It was a fundamental mistake. And I think Bush and his trade team have played this very well. They've gone back and said, well, if you don't want to dance, then don't get on the dance floor - we'll pick other partners. And so, what have we done? We've now got the Peruvians, the Colombians, the Costa Ricans and also the Thais to step out of that group and say they'd like to do bilaterals with the United States. Other countries are doing bilaterals elsewhere. The point is, keep the trade bicycle moving forward. If you stop, it falls over.'

Had Mr Fisher been in the shoes of the present US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, he would do 'exactly the same thing', he says. 'Trade policy is not very exciting - it's a slow deliberate process, like watching snails race. But as long as it moves forward, that's what counts. If we have to do it bilaterally, we'll do it bilaterally, if we can do it wholesale, we'll do it wholesale.'

As for the WTO, 'I wouldn't say it's beyond the pale, but I'm worried about it', says Mr Fisher. 'It's a difficult, unwieldy organisation. There are too many members, 150 or so. It works on a consensus basis and it's very hard to get that many countries to achieve a consensus.'

Despite its ambivalence about the WTO, the United States hasn't gone so far as the Europeans in declaring the WTO as being 'dysfunctional', as Europe's Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said at Cancun.

'If we were to say that, everybody would say, oh, it's George Bush turning his back on the system again. We get criticised at every turn now because we're a hegemon, and nobody loves a hegemon. So if we were to say the WTO is a 'has been' organisation, there would be an uproar. And I don't think we truly feel that way as a government. The WTO is unwieldy, it is difficult to deal with, and I think you have to give it a little shock now and then. And I think that's what these bilaterals will do.'

Finally, what of US trade policy towards China? In particular, how will the Chinese respond to the relentless American pressure on Beijing to revalue the renminbi to help narrow the US trade deficit with China?

It's worth asking Mr Fisher, who is one of the handful of American negotiators who has sat across the table from former Chinese leaders Deng Xiaoping and Zhu Rongji as well as Jiang Zemin, and negotiated China's entry into the WTO.

'Put yourself in the shoes of China's new leader, Hu Jintao,' he says. 'Although he has a rapid growth rate, he still has 180 million workers looking for jobs. He has an unstable, extremely weak banking system. He knows what happened at the Plaza Accord of 1985, when we talked the Japanese into revaluing the yen; it was the beginning of the end for the Japanese economy, and it didn't solve the trade deficit problem either. And he's wary of what Jiang Zemin and others might be thinking of him.'

'So what would you do? There's a great Chinese phrase which is 'mei mer' which means 'no way'. So if I were in his shoes, I would say: 'mei mer Jose', no way Jose.'

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'Besides, Chinese labour costs are 4 per cent of what they are in the United States, 20 per cent of Mexico and Brazil, 40 per cent of Korea. You simply can't depreciate a currency that dramatically to level the playing field. And by the way, I'm not even sure that the yuan would appreciate rather than depreciate after it's floated. So why take the risk?'

Why then is the United States persisting in pushing Beijing to float its currency?

'This is part of one grand negotiation,' says Mr Fisher, 'and I'll tell you what will come out of it. The US Congress is getting all hopped-up about the rapid rate of growth of Chinese exports to the US: 29 per cent in the last two years, compounded. What's really happening is that China's displacing Mexico, Korea and Taiwan. Factories are actually moving from Mexico to China. China is one country, so now you have the focus of politicians' attention on one country instead of three. Some Congressmen want to levy a tax on imports from China, others want currency appreciation. As Groucho Marx used to say, that's the art of politics in Washington - finding the wrong solution and applying the wrong remedy.'

'What will happen out of this,' he continues, 'is that we'll use the issue to make China live up to its WTO commitments: they've been a little slow in implementing their agreements to the WTO.

'We'll also probably get some huge contracts before the election season in the United States, which are key to certain influential members of the Congress. (Indeed, China is already reported to be poised to place orders for 30 new planes from Boeing for about US$2 billion, among other purchases)

'So, I don't think it's a very prudent thing to do to try to make China revalue the renminbi. But then in international diplomacy, rarely do you say what you really want. Instead, we will get something that may be different from what we asked for, but it will assuage the pressure on the manufacturing sector and our labour community.

'That's the way the game is played,' says Mr Fisher. 'The Chinese are very shrewd and my guess is they will play this game pretty tough. But in the end, they know they have to show they're making progress.'

Copyright C 2003 Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. All rights reserved.

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MAR 2 6 2003

Jessee Incao

From: Lorraine Woellert [lorraine woellert@businessweek.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:55 AM
To: jincao@kmaglobal.com
Cc: Lorraine Woellert
Subject: Interview request

Dear Jesse:

I'm writing to request a phone interview with Mr. Kissinger for a story we're doing on the Defense Policy Board and PFIAB. Our story will explain the nature of these volunteer boards and address the debate over board members' ties to industry.

My questions, from the general to the specific, are these:

What purpose do panels such as PFIAB and DPB serve in terms of policy making decisions?
How influential are they? Some people I've talked to have suggested that the panels are of
more use to their members than to the Administration. Thoughts?

Is there a conflict of interest for DPB and PFIAB board members who do business with companies that might gain from the boards' advice?

Would stricter disclosure requirements by the ethics department be a good idea? Would tougher rules discourage citizens from serving on these boards?

Does an appointment to DPB or PFIAB increase a member's marketability, so to speak? Is it the reverse -- ie, that board members are appointed based on their experience in industry?

Would Mr. Kissinger confirm/deny/clarify reports that he, Mr. Hillman, and Mr. Perle have set up a company, Trireme Management, to conduct homeland-security related business. Would he address accusations of conflict of interest made by the press and watchdog groups?

Thanks so much. My deadline is 5pm tonight. Please call or email if you have any questions.

Lorraine Woellert
Legal Affairs Correspondent
Business Week
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