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APR - 4 1994

Dear Mr Kissinger

My parents have long admired you and
your many talents. They are now approaching
a momentous station in their life--- their
50th wedding anniversary on May 29th.
Having a few kind words from you would
literally make this an event of a lifetime.

Your kindness would be so very much
appreciated. Thank you, in advance, for taking
a few moments out of your busy schedule.

My parents are Barbara and Bill Nance
Their address is:
Mr and Mrs Bill Nance
9228 NE 37th Place
Bellevue, WA 98004

NATIONAL

SOCCER
HALL OF FAME

National Board

Robert R. Hermann
Chairman

Walter R. Daggatt
Ahmet Ertegun
Werner Fricker
Lamar Hunt
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
H. Ward Lay
L. William McNutt, Jr.
John "Bud" Palmer
Timothy J. Robbie
Alan I. Rothenberg
George R. Strawbridge, Jr.
Peter V. Ueberroth
George R. Wackenhut

Walter A. Bahr
Liaison United States
Soccer Federation

Mickey Cochrane
Liaison National Soccer
Coaches Association

5-11 Ford Avenue, Oneonta, New York 13820 Phone 607-432-3351 Fax 607-432-8429

July 15, 1994

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

Dear Henry:

We have just received some really good news! The State of New York has approved $4.5 million in matching funds for the National Soccer Hall of Fame. This comes just a month after the Hall was designated the official repository for the 1994 World Cup archives, so we are on the brink of great things.

We must act quickly to get pledges to take advantage of these matching funds. We need National Board members to give us a list of individuals and/or corporations to whom we may write - over your name - detailing this opportunity and asking for support. After we have your list of prospects, the Hall will write the letters and return them to you for signing and any personal note you may wish to add.

This development brings us a step closer to our goal, which as you know, is to complete the Wright National Soccer Campus and provide soccer a Hall of Fame comparable to the best sports museum facilities in existence. (See our new brochure enclosed which will also be sent to our prospective contributors.) Yet to be completed are the new museum, stadium, indoor arena and four fields.

The timing should be excellent for this appeal, coming on the heels of World Cup USA which opened the eyes of millions of Americans to soccer. Please help the Hall by sending your list to me as quickly as possible.

Mail or Fax list to:

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NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION, INC.

Naval War College • 686 Cushing Road • Newport, Rhode Island 02841-1207

Tel: (401) 848-8300 Fax: (401) 848-8302 (800) 759-5983

6 May 1994

NOTICE OF ANNUAL AND TRUSTEES MEETINGS

The Annual Meeting of the Naval War College Foundation, Inc. will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, 13 June 1994, in Pringle Auditorium, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, for the transaction of business as may properly come before it. A light buffet luncheon hosted by the Foundation will be offered in Mahan Rotunda immediately following this meeting.

The meeting of the Board of Trustees will convene in Mahan Reading Room at 1:00 p.m. following the luncheon.

The deliberations of the Nominating Committee for election to the Board of Trustees are completed. Nominees proposed for election (or reelection) to serve a three (3) year term of office are listed below. Biographical sketches are enclosed.

Election

Arthur J. Stanziano

Robert Turpin

Reelection

Diane M. Disney

James E. Hayes

Kent A. Willever

Temporary Trustee appointed by the Board to fill the unex-
pired term of Robert A. Maier is proposed for election as indica-
ted below:

Mack A. Thomas, Jr. to June 1995

The Agenda for the Annual Meeting is:

1. Minutes of last Annual Meeting

2. Treasurer's Report

3. Report of the Nominating Committee for Trustees
   B. Franklin Reinauer II

4. Election of Trustees

5. Member Update
   Betsy Wylie

6. Annual Report by Foundation President
   Townsend Hornor

7. Remarks by President, Naval War College,
   Rear Admiral Joseph C. Strasser, USN

8. New Business

Members are kindly requested to return the attendance infor-
mation and proxy form in the enclosed business reply envelope at
their earliest convenience so that plans may be completed.

Please return attendance info
and proxy by 3 June 1994, thanks,

EGW/mmg
Enclosures

Elizabeth G. Wylie
Executive Director

President

Townsend Hornor

Vice President

Frederick C. Brehm

Secretary-Treasurer

Kent A. Willever

Executive Director

Elizabeth G. Wylie

Trustees

Hugh D. Auchincloss III

Richard C. Barker

Frederick C. Brehm

Endicott P. Davison

Diane Disney

Charles Dyer

Sylvester R. Foley, Jr.

James E. Hayes

Don Horn

Jonathan T. Isham

Frank B. Muhlfeld

Robert R. Sheahan

Lee A. Smith

Edward P. Snyder, Jr.

Mack A. Thomas, Jr.

Austin N. Volk

Kent A. Willever

Honorary Trustee

Joseph C. Strasser

Regional Vice Presidents

Daniel F. Coughlin
Boston

Long Ellis
Pasadena

Mary Ellen Hanley
Seattle

Robert N. Miller
Santa Barbara

Arthur J. Stanziano
Washington, DC

Robert Turpin
Phoenix

Trustees Emeriti

Charles F. Adams • Henry H. Anderson, Jr. • Nils Anderson, Jr. • Robert E. Bateman • Mrs. Robert Crown

John H. Dalton • Felix W. de Weldon • Thomas S. Estes • Paul B. Fay, Jr. • S. E. Freund • John T. Hayward • Townsend Hornor

Andrew B. Jones • Seymour Knee • William D. Laurie, Jr. • Mrs. Laidler B. Mackall • J. William Middendorf II • John Monsarrat

John A. Mulcahy • B. Franklin Reinauer II • H. Smith Richardson, Jr. • William B. Ruger, Sr. • Chauncey E. Schmidt • Richard B. Sheffield

John J. Slocum • Robert J. Smuland • Charles P. Stetson • Mrs. Theodore C. Sturtevant

NOMINEES FOR ELECTION OR REELECTION TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION, INC. 1994-1997

## Election:

### Arthur J. Stanziano

Consultant to the Chairman and CEO, SYSCON Corporation

Retired Vice President, Government Affairs, Hazeltine Corporation. Also,
served as VP International Division, VP Washington Operations, VP and
General Manager Hazeltine's Electro-Acoustic Systems Lab in Boston

Retired Captain, US Navy, with specialization in avionics and acoustics

Past Member, Defense Science Board Task Force on Industry to Industry
International Armaments Cooperation

Past Member, NATO Industrial Advisory Group; Advisory Council, Inter-
national Committee of the National Security Industrial Association;
Export-Import Committee of the Electronic Industries Association

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

Graduate: Columbia University, BSEE; Industrial College of the Armed
Forces; George Washington University, MBA

Resident: Falls Church, VA, and Narragansett, RI

Regional Vice President and Life Member, Naval War College Foundation

### Robert Turpin

President, Turpin Investment Company, Scottsdale, Arizona

Captain, US Naval Reserve, 1963-present; active duty, 1963-1969

Past Chairman, Turpin-Fisher Investment Advisors, Scottsdale

Past President, Vice President, General Manager, of Harris Trust Company
of Arizona

Past Vice President Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago

Member, Board of Directors, First Financial Capital Corporation, Phoenix

Trustee, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Member, Boards of Directors, Barrow Neurological Foundation, and Arizona
Museum of Science and Technology

Past Member, Boards of Directors, Phoenix Symphony Association, Scottsdale
Center for the Arts, Valley Shakespeare, Inc., Valley United Presbyterian
Foundation

Life Member, Naval Reserve Association

Member, Boards of Directors, Navy League of Phoenix, and Naval Institute
Foundation

Life Member, Reserve Officers Association of the U.S., and the Naval Order
of the U.S.

Resident: Scottsdale, AZ

## Reelection:

### Diane M. Disney

Director of Research Center for Business and Economics, University of RI;
Professor of Management Policy, University of RI

Graduate: Stetson University, BA; Duke University, MAT; University of
RI, MBA; Brandeis University, 1989, PhD (Policy Analysis)

Co-Chair of the RI Defense Economic Adjustment Project; On Governor of RI's
Personnel Review Committee

RI Woman of the Year - 1994

Appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Personnel, effective
17 May 1994

Resident: Providence, RI, and Washington, D.C.

Trustee and Life Member, Naval War College Foundation

## James E. Hayes

Chairman, Hayes & Griffith, Inc. (Investment Banking)

Former Vice President, Morgan Stanley and Company

Graduate: Holy Cross (B.S. Bus. Admin.), 1952; Michigan (MBA), 1955

Member of many business affiliated clubs Chicago area

Navy, Destroyers 1952-54 as LTJG; Currently LCDR, USNR-R

Resident: Kenilworth, IL

## Kent A. Willever

Captain, US Navy, Staff Judge Advocate, Naval War College, Newport, RI

Graduate: Yale University, 1966; Boston's Suffolk University Law School, 1975, Juris Doctor degree, cum laude; Salve Regina College, 1990, MS, Management; NWC, College of Naval Warfare, 1980

Formerly Chief Judge, US Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review

Active service in the Navy since 1966 includes sea duty in carriers, destroyers, mine craft, amphibious ships and staffs; Commanding Officer of Legal Service Office, Newport, Rhode Island, for four years

Resident: Portsmouth, RI

Trustee and Alumni Member, Naval War College Foundation

## NOMINEE FOR ELECTION TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION, INC.
TO FILL UNEXPIRED TERM OF ROBERT A. MAIER TO JUNE 1995

## Mack A. Thomas, Jr.

Captain, US Navy, Deputy to the President and Chief of Staff, Naval War College, 1993-present

Graduate: Northeastern Oklahoma State University, BS; La Verne University, MS; Naval War College, College of Naval Warfare

Designated a Naval Aviator 1968; served in Helicopter Attack Squadron Light THREE (HAL 3) in Republic of Vietnam

Commanding Officer, Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron TEN, deployed in the Western Pacific

Executive Officer, USS NEW ORLEANS (LPH 11)

Commanding Officer, USS OKINAWA (LPH 3), deployed in support of Desert Shield in the Persian Gulf

Commander, Amphibious Squadron EIGHT

Awards include: Two Legions of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, three Meritorious Service Medals, three Single Action Air Medals, 29 Strike Flight Air Medals, Navy Commendation and Navy Achievement Medals with Combat "V"s, among others

Resident: Newport, RI

Temporary Trustee and Alumni Member, Naval War College Foundation

THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN

TO: Friends of The New York Botanical Garden

FROM: Gregory Long, President

DATE: November 21, 1994

RE: The Fordham Tower Situation

DEC - 6 1994

Fordham University has a new building permit to erect their 45-story tower on a site just 25 feet back from the original spot, where at the moment the unfinished 180-foot tower looms. The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory is just 300 feet from this site.

Unless the voice of the community is heard right away, Fordham could
begin to build on the new site immediately.

The University also persists in its effort to gain permission to build on the
original site--thus saving them the cost of moving the half finished tower
back 25 feet. We will be countering their argument at the Board of
Standards and Appeals.

We have also petitioned the FCC, which granted Fordham a permit to
build, to revoke that permit on the grounds that a whole level of public
review was circumvented by misstatements in Fordham's application for
this permit. If our FCC petition is upheld, an environmental impact
assessment including evaluation of damage to landmarks and historic
landscapes will have to be conducted.

At this point letters from citizens to Father O'Hare, the President of the
University, with copies to Robert E. Campbell, the Chairman of Fordham's
Board, and the Mayor will be very helpful. A sample letter is enclosed to
make it easy for you to write. It is very important for the voice of the
community to be heard. Your help has made a difference before. Thanks
again.

(718) 817-8700

BRONX, NEW YORK 10458-5126 U.S.A.

FAX (718) 220-6504

Reverend Joseph A. O'Hare, S.J.
President
Fordham University
Bronx, New York 10458

Dear Father O'Hare:

I have been following with interest the developments regarding Fordham's
radio tower. I am writing to express my dismay upon learning that Fordham
has been granted permission to build the tower to its full height only 25 feet
away from the current location. This is certainly not a solution to the
problem. The tower will cause irreparable damage to the surrounding historic
district and must be moved to another site.

I understand that an off-campus site is now being investigated, and I am very encouraged to learn that alternative technologies exist that would enable Fordham to locate its antenna on the roof of a building. These possibilities could address the concerns of all the parties involved; for that reason they must be fully explored. Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

cc: Robert E. Campbell, Chairman, Fordham Board
Johnson & Johnson
One Johnson & Johnson Plaza
Room WT 1101
New Brunswick, NJ 08933

Honorable Rudolph W. Giuliani
Mayor of the City of New York
City Hall
New York, NY 10007

NEW YORK NEWSDAY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1994

New York
Newsday

EDITORIALS

Move the Tower

Protect botanical garden's vistas

Lanky eyesore

If anyone proposed building a 45-story radio tower 100 yards from Central Park, he'd be laughed out of town. But Fordham University officials still seem to think it's perfectly reasonable to build a radio tower right next to one of the Bronx's rare and beautiful oases, the New York Botanical Garden. Fordham should redouble its efforts to find another tower site for its radio station, WFUV-FM. The Botanical Garden should stand its ground.

New Yorkers need more quiet refuges from the city's steel and concrete, not fewer. A view of a giant Erector set topped with flashing aviation lights hardly provides a peaceful escape from the hustle and bustle of the Bronx. The tower, partially built before the city Department of Buildings ordered Fordham to stop in July, spoils the panorama of the garden's rolling hills. It intrudes on the graceful silhouette of the garden's turn-of-the-century glass-domed conservatory.

WFUV, a 50,000-watt public station. shouldn't be forced off the air. Its music programming — from the blues to Irish folk to zydeco — is good for the ear and the soul. To renew its license, though, WFUV must meet the Federal Communications Commission's stricter radiation regs. So Fordham must remove its antenna from Keating Hall and broadcast from a taller tower.

Lawyers for Fordham and the Botanical Garden have been battling on two legal fronts — before the FCC, now expected to rule on the proposed site next month, and before the buildings department, which approved a modified plan for the tower last week. Rather than invest more in courtroom gladiators, Fordham and the Botanical Garden should work together to find a suitable site.

Both sides agree that a vacant lot owned by the state Department of Transportation, near the Cross Bronx and Sheridan Expressways, might work. Fordham and the Botanical Garden should aggressively pursue that possibility.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1994

EDITORIALS

The New York Times

Battling Neighbors

Fordham University has a very big problem: a radio transmitter that, once built, will be 480 un-gainly feet tall. The New York Botanical Garden also has a very big problem: The antenna is directly across the street and all too visible from much of this essentially sylvan site. There is no doubt how this squabble between neighbors needs to come out. Common sense, esthetics and the importance to the city of this botanical jewel virtually dictate that Fordham find another site for its tower.

Fordham asked for a construction permit to build a new transmitter in 1983, three years before new Federal Communications Commission regulations made one mandatory for a license renewal for WFUV-FM, the university's radio station. The old transmitter, a discreet antenna atop the school's Keating Hall, does not meet the new guidelines, which are designed to reduce public exposure to radio waves.

Fordham then spent eight years looking for a site that would satisfy both the F.C.C. and Federal Aviation Administration — and would not arouse community concerns — before settling on its own campus. New York's Buildings Department granted a license, and Fordham began construction. The Botanical Garden, understandably outraged by a monster so close, and about to embark on an $80 million fund-raising effort, properly persuaded the Buildings Department to order a halt. Fordham,

which had spent close to $1 million, was left with part of a tower and a hole in the ground.

This week the Buildings Department ruled that this gigantic skeleton could be built after all — provided it is moved 25 feet farther away. The people at the Botanical Garden are still unhappy, as should be all New Yorkers who care about the damage done to this city by the reckless disregard of esthetics. Twenty-five feet back or no, the transmitter is still the mother of all Erector sets.

Fordham, thousands of New Yorkers will be happy to hear, would not dream of closing WFUV-FM, a non-commercial station that has unusual programming and serves six ethnic communities. That leaves it three options. It could press appeals to finish the transmitter on the original site, accept the suggestion to move the base slightly, or continue the search for another site.

Strictly speaking, it does not have to move it, now that it has the Buildings Department's permission. But not to do so would mean that a university — surely the last place that should be guilty of such a crime — would have destroyed the visual peace of what is for New Yorkers a rare oasis. There are few places in this city where one can be both in New York and out of it, and the Botanical Garden is one of them. Finding an entirely new site may not be Fordham's legal duty now. But it is surely its duty to the people of New York.

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Over 380 of Brooke's friends contributed nearly $500,000 to create a permanent source of funds from which to acquire books for the Central Research Library in her name. It is with great pleasure that I report to you today on the fruits of your gift. Last year, the Brooke Russell Astor Endowment for Books was able to purchase, process and catalog over 350 books on a myriad of subjects ranging from poetry to anthropology. Among these books were:

*A Handbook of Native American Herbs* by Alma R. Hutchens.
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*Chronic Fatigue and Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome* by
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*Conflict of Interest: The Politics of American Education* by Joel H. Spring. New York: Longman, 1992.

*Educational Policy and National Character: Africa, Japan, The United States, and the Soviet Union* by Dickson A. Mungazi. United States: Praeger Greenwood Publications Group, Inc., 1993.

*Gender, Culture and the Arts: Women, the Arts, and Society* by Ronald Dotterer and Susan Bowers.
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania: Susquehanna University Press; London; Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1993.

Holocaust Literature: A Handbook of Critical, Historical and
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People and Parks: Linking Protected Area Management
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Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation by Jimmy
Carter. United States: Dutton Children's Books Penguin USA,
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Theatre on Trail: Samuel Beckett's Later Drama by Audrey
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The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan. New York: Plume, 1993.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES **EDITORIALS/LETTERS** FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1994

Times

ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER JR. Publisher

MAX FRANKEL, Executive Editor
JOSEPH LELVELED, Managing Editor

Assistant Managing Editors

SOMA GOLDEN BEHR DAVID R. JONES
GERALD M. BOYD CAROLYN LEE
WARREN HOGE JACK ROSENTHAL
ALLAN M. SIEGAL

HOWELL RAINES, Editorial Page Editor
PHILIP M. BOFFY, Deputy Editorial Page Editor

RUSSELL T. LEWIS, President and General Manager
JOHN M. O'BRIEN, Executive VP, Deputy Gen. Mgr.
WILLIAM L. POLLAK, Executive VP, Sales
RICHARD H. GILMAN, Senior VP, Operations
PENELOPE MUSE ABERNATHY, VP, Planning
RAYMOND E. DOUGLAS, VP, Systems and Technology
KAREN A. MESSINEO, VP, Chief Financial Officer

DONNA C. MIELE, VP, Human Resources
JOSEPH M. MULLEN, VP, Production
JANET L. ROBINSON, VP, Advertising
CHARLES E. SHELTON, VP, Circulation

## Army Shoppers

the diversity and quality of merchandise that is part of the big-city shopping experience.

City officials need to use zoning regulations carefully and creatively, to minimize the impact on small stores. One fair way is to direct retail development to areas where the city will get the most benefit — where dilapidated factories once stood.

New York would be a poorer place if all it had was a string of discount warehouses. But it cannot ignore a changing national economy. Written 20 years ago, when New York had more manufacturing, the zoning regulations were aimed at preserving the land for industrial use. City officials restricted the construction of some large stores in manufacturing districts, notably food, clothing, carpet and furniture stores. But they never envisioned such phenomena as a Toys "R" Us, a Home Depot or a Staples.

As a result, toy stores, hardware and home supply stores and those that sell office equipment and books can be built in areas zoned for low and medium manufacturing, while stores that sell food, furniture and other goods in the excluded category have to undergo a difficult, time-consuming approval process. That discourages construction and is one reason for the many acres of underused or abandoned land in the city — land that could be generating good for museums.

Over the next several months, officials of the Giuliani administration plan to draft zoning changes for manufacturing areas, including their use for superstores and another complicated but worthy idea under consideration at City Hall: to allow the placement of some social services in light manufacturing districts.

It will be months, if not years, before the zoning regulations would actually be revised. That leaves plenty of time for the public and city officials to come up with fair, sensible changes. But they should remember that if all consumers hear is "Attention, Kmart shoppers," New York will not be New York.

## Why, for What?

in ways that would permit still steeper cutbacks.

The Army long prepared for war against a tank-heavy, artillery-laden Red Army in Europe. In waging war with Iraq it was fortunate to face a small-scale version of that threat, complete with Soviet equipment and Soviet-style tactics — and in desert terrain ideal for U.S. maneuverability, reconnaissance and air power.

The Army's success in Iraq only reinforced its conviction that it should rely on tanks and artillery and prepare for more large-scale set-piece battles. The Army now plans to fight a resurgent Iraq and North Korea at the same time. That sounds like preparing for one massive ground war too many.

## Hanoi, Not Nixon, Set Pace of Vietnam Peace

To the Editor:

No one will beguile Tony Lewis ("Guilt for Vietnam," column, May 30) the fun of returning to the battles of his youth, in the process blaming the United States Government and not Hanoi for American casualties, and repeating the contemptible lie that the terms achieved in 1972 were available in 1969. Like the Bourbons, Tony Lewis has forgotten nothing in the interval, but neither has he learned anything.

Mr. Lewis gleefully pounces on a single entry in 600 pages of the H. R. Haldeman diaries to "prove" that President Nixon's Vietnam policy was driven by electoral politics. He chooses not to consider the voluminous written record that proves the contrary. He ignores that there is no comparable comment in the rest of the text and many comments emphasizing the strategic purposes of our policy.

The Vietnam strategy of the Nixon Administration grew out of a study extending over many months early in his term. It was explained repeatedly to the American people. The internal memoranda of the Nixon Administration do not support Mr. Lewis's allegation.

In my memoirs and in my recently published book, "Diplomacy," I have summarized or printed many of these documents; so did President Nixon in his memoirs, as well as other participants in the process. Nor was the strategy described in the alleged quotation ever carried out.

I have no personal recollection of the episode recounted in the Haldeman diary — probably because it was submerged in the public relations chatter emanating from Mr. Haldeman's office.

What seems to have happened, according to the diaries, is that President Nixon, disappointed in the

results of the Congressional election, told Mr. Haldeman in December 1970 that he needed to withdraw from Vietnam in 1971 to avoid an electoral setback in 1972.

The choice of addressee suggests that President Nixon was blowing off steam, rather than discussing a change in strategy. Had he meant for this to be implemented, he would have sent a memo to the National Security Council or discussed it with me.

A few days later — if the diaries are to be believed — I told Mr. Haldeman that withdrawal would not even serve a political purpose and that we should stick to the strategy of winding down the war unilaterally. Had I treated the matter seriously, I would have written a memo to President Nixon or talked to him.

The diary "reveals" the obvious — that President Nixon was concerned about his re-election and that I opposed unilateral withdrawal. That both of us wanted to see the war ended in the first term should be thought to be inherent in the nature of a democratic society.

But this is a far cry from the allegation that we designed our strategy to fit in with the strategy campaign. Nor was the strategy implied in the quotation ever carried out.

Mr. Lewis uses his "discoveries" to prove the opposite of what means of a fantasy version of what happened in 1972. According to Mr. Lewis, in fulfilling the plot to end the war before the election, I announced "Peace is at hand," and President Nixon accepted terms available since 1969.

Not a word of this account can be supported by the record. I challenge Mr. Lewis to produce a shred of evidence that the terms offered by Hanoi in 1972 existed since 1969.

If Mr. Lewis's knowledge matched his passion, he would know that only issue prevented a settlement: For year after year, Hanoi insisted that the United States overthrow the political structures put in place by the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.

We were prepared to withdraw and told Hanoi so, starting in April 1970; we were not prepared to cap retreat by dishonor and to turn over to the Communists those who in reliance on the promises of our predecessors had cast their lot with America.

President Nixon had made clear repeatedly in January 1972 and again in May 1972 that the Vietnamese people must decide their own political future. On Oct. 8, 1972, Hanoi accepted that condition for the first time, and we kept faith with the American people by settling rapidly.

## Theme Parks Give History a Landscape

To the Editor:

Railing against the Disney Company's proposed historic theme park in Virginia, as Frank Rich does in "Disney's Bull Run" (column, May 22), is a popular sport. The proposed theme park may be the wrong project for the site because of environmental impacts, but we shouldn't dismiss historical amusement parks without considering why they are successful.

Our landscapes increasingly show little awareness of their past. We are left with what Richard Sennett calls "a surfeit of sameness." History is left for museums.

Efforts like New York State's 12-year-old Urban Cultural Park system (live-in, learn-in parks) and the establishment of national heritage corridors are using the living landscape as the showcase of the American story where that story unfolded. Riverspark, an urban cultural park made up of seven communities including Troy and Cohoes, N.Y., shows in authentic settings the story of the organization of the first women's labor union and the industries that made arms and clothing for the Union Army in the Civil War. A law codifying the heritage area program is likely to be enacted this year.

Yet these efforts take place in virtual obesity. Those who have been the most indignant over Disney have done little to have the real cultural resources in the living landscape presented interestingly.

One of the reasons Europeans have not flocked to the Euro Disney Park in France is that they have the real thing in their own backyards, a real environment that is a theme park of sorts.

PAUL M. BRAY
Albany, May 23, 1994

## No One Bribed Anyone in Clinton Trading

To the Editor:

For a man who usually chooses his words so carefully, William Safire is off the wall in describing Hillary Rodham Clinton's commodity trading as "bribery in its most modern form" (column, May 30). He offers no evidence — and there is none — of what he calls "blatantly preferential treatment," "trades made in their behalf with little or perhaps no Clinton input" or "records strangely missing."

Mrs. Clinton has made her own copies of her brokers' trading records public, and after she learned that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange had its records, she sought out and disclosed them. The exchange records essentially confirm and complement her copies of the brokers' records, although there are some gaps in each. But as Leo Malamed, former head of the exchange, has explained, such gaps are not unusual, and nothing in the records suggests she violated any

tained, whatever the amount of margin required by her broker.

Mr. Safire characterizes this not as bribery in its legal sense but as a "subtle new bribery" — so subtle that he cannot articulate a plausible basis to call it "bribery" at all. He relies on the Merriam-Webster Third Unabridged Dictionary for a definition of bribery as a "price, reward or gift bestowed or promised with a view to pervert the judgment or corrupt the conduct" of a public official, but even this requires a who, a quid and a quo, none of which he supplies.

If he has Tyson Foods in mind because of its outside counsel Jim Blair was a Clinton friend and Mrs. Clinton's trading adviser in 1978, he fails to explain why Tyson opposed Bill Clinton in his 1980 election campaign. He also fails to explain why Mr. Blair, with his supposed knack for allocating guaranteed profits to anyone he wanted just a bundle of his own by

Mr. Lewis must face the facts:

That was Hanoi, not his government, that is responsible for the death of American servicemen.

It was Hanoi, not President Nixon, that determined the timing and the pace of the negotiations.

It was Hanoi that tried to use the election.

It was Hanoi — not electoral politics — that produced the "Peace is at hand" press conference.

We were forced to hold the press conference because Hanoi radio broadcast the text of the agreement as it stood and asked us to send an emissary to sign it. Even then, we claimed less than Hanoi, which claimed the agreement as already concluded.

It was Hanoi not President Nixon

HOWARD KAINES, Editorial Page Editor

PHILIP M. BOFFEY, Deputy Editorial Page Editor

RUSSELL T. Lewis, President and General Manager

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# Why for What?

Such wars are very different from peacekeeping operations, like Somalia, or low-intensity conflicts, like Panama and Grenada, where there are no clearly demarcated fronts and it is difficult to distinguish foes from noncombatants. Such missions are likely to have less use for the firepower of armored divisions and more use for lightly armed troops trained in the restrained use of force.

The Army is understandably wary of waging counterinsurgency wars like Vietnam. But the Army cannot afford to stand still. It needs to rethink what it has to protect, and how best it can prepare.

gation.

A few days later — if the diaries are to be believed — I told Mr. Haldeman that withdrawal would not even serve a political purpose and that we should stick to the strategy of winding down the war unilaterally. Had I treated a matter seriously, I would have written a memo to President Nixon or talked to him.

But this is a far cry from the allegation that we designed our strategy to fit in with the election campaign. Nor was the strategy implied in the quotation ever carried out.

Mr. Lewis uses his "discoveries" to prove the opposite by means of a fantasy version of what happened in 1972. According to Mr. Lewis, in fulfilling the plot to end the war before the election, I announced "Peace is at hand," and President Nixon accepted terms available since 1969.

If Mr. Lewis's knowledge matched his passion, he would know that only one issue prevented a settlement: For year after year, Hanoi insisted that the United States overthrow the political structures put in place by the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.

We were prepared to withdraw and told Hanoi so, starting in April 1970; we were not prepared to cap retaliation by dishonor and to turn over to the Communists those who in reliance on the promises of our predecessors had cast their lot with America.

It was Hanoi, not his government, that is responsible for the death of American servicemen.

We were forced to hold the press conference because Hanoi radio broadcast the text of the agreement as it stood and asked us to send an emissary to sign it. Even then, we claimed less than Hanoi, which proclaimed the agreement as already concluded.

It was Hanoi, not President Nixon, that insisted on peace before the election by yielding terms never previously available and by insisting on signing an incomplete agreement that we were keeping secret.

Is it not about time to end the self-indulgent moralism that revels in America's 'travails and refuses to face the reality of serious moral dilemmas?'

HENRY A. KISSINGER

London, June 1, 1994

To the Editor:

Efforts like New York State's 12-year-old Urban Cultural Park system (live-in, learn-in parks) and the establishment of national heritage corridors are using the living landscape as the showcase of the American story where that story unfolded.VERSIPARK, an urban cultural park made up of seven communities including Troy and Cohoes, N.Y., shows in authentic settings the story of the organization of the first women's labor union and the industries that made arms and clothing for the Union Army in the Civil War. A law codifying the heritage area program is likely to be enacted this year.

Yet these efforts take place in virtual obscenity. Those who have been the most indignant over Disney have done little to have the real cultural resources in the living landscape presented interestingly.

PAUL M. BRAY

Albany, May 23, 1994

To the Editor:

For a man who usually chooses his words so carefully, William Safire is off the wall in describing Hillary Rodham Clinton's commodity trading as "bribery in its most modern form" (column, May 30). He offers no evidence — and there is none — of what he calls "blatantly preferential treatment," or "trades made in their behalf with little or perhaps no Clinton input" or "records strangely missing."

Mrs. Clinton has made her own copies of her brokers' trading records public, and after she learned that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange had its records, she sought out and disclosed them. The exchange records essentially confirm and complement her copies of the brokers' records, although there are some gaps in each. But as Leo Melamed, former head of the exchange, has explained, such gaps are not unusual, and nothing in the records suggests she violated any rule or that any of her trades were "allocated" to her by the brokerage firm to guarantee a profit.

Mrs. Clinton made her own trading decisions, her money was at risk, she paid full commissions, and she made both profitable and unprofitable trades during the time she was in the market. The account was in her name, and she was liable to the brokerage house for any losses she sus-

If he has Tyson Foods in mind because its outside counsel Jim Blair is a Clinton friend and Mrs. Clinton's trading adviser in 1978, he fails to explain why Tyson opposed Bill Clinton in his 1980 election campaign. He also fails to explain why Mr. Blair, with his supposed knack for allocating profits to anyone he wanted, lost a bundle of his own by trading cattle futures in the months after Mrs. Clinton left the market.

Bribery is a serious and invidious charge. It should not be made on the basis of mere hypothesis concerning a "person or persons unknown, possibly acting through third parties." That sounds most unlike the Bill Safire I know.

LLOYD N. CUTLER
Counsel to the President
Washington, June 2, 1994

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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

March 25, 1994

Dear National Science Scholar:

It gives me great pleasure to inform you that you have been selected as a National Science Scholar and will receive a scholarship under the National Science Scholars Program for the 1994-95 academic year. You have been chosen for this honor because of your outstanding accomplishments at the secondary level and because of your demonstrated motivation to complete a postsecondary education of high academic achievement in a scientific discipline.

The National Science Scholars Program recognizes excellence and proficiency in mathematics, in engineering, and in the physical, life, and computer sciences by providing scholarships to meritorious high school graduates or General Education Development (GED) certificate recipients, enabling them to continue their studies at the postsecondary level. This program is one way that we at the federal level can help America reach the National Education Goals to make U.S. students first in the world in science and mathematics achievement by the year 2000.

Within a few days, you will receive a letter from the Department of Education providing you with more detailed information regarding your selection as a National Science Scholar.

Congratulations, and best wishes for a successful and rewarding future.

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Heritage Foundation

A tax-exempt public policy research institute

March 21, 1994

MAR 25 1994

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Center for Strategic And International Studies
1800 K. Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

I read with great interest the plan to establish a public policy center at President Nixon's library and of the establishment of the affiliated Richard Nixon Foreign Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.

I am writing to you in your capacity as a member of the board of directors to volunteer my services by assisting as an unpaid consultant with any administrative matters which will need to be addressed with the establishment of the Washington institution.

As the Director of Administration at The Heritage Foundation for the past 7 years, I have worked with vendors in all phases of computer purchases and installation, security, housekeeping, telephones, meeting planning, audio-visual equipment, remodeling and renovation, landscaping, mailroom operations, etc. I am certain my knowledge in these areas would prove invaluable to the establishment of the institute by recommending the best companies to handle many of the various administrative tasks at a considerable savings to the institute.

Edwin J. Feulner, Jr., President
Stuart M. Butler, Vice President
Kate Walsh O'Beirne, Vice President
John Von Kannon, Vice President & Treasurer

David R. Brown, M.D., Chairman
Grover Coors
Jerry Hume
Hon. J. William Middendorf, II
Hon. William E. Simon

Joseph Coors

Phillip N. Truluck, Executive Vice President
Kim R. Holmes, Vice President
Peter E. S. Pover, Vice President

**Board of Trustees**
Richard M. Scaife, Vice Chairman
Midge Decter
Robert H. Krieble, Ph.D.
Thomas A. Roe

**Honorary Trustees**
Hon. Shelby Cullom Davis, Chairman Emeritus
Hon. Jack Eckerd Sarah T. Hermann

Herbert B. Berkowitz, Vice President
Adam Meyerson, Vice President
Terrence Scanlon, Vice President
Bernard Lomas, Counselor

J. Frederic Rench, Secretary
Edwin J. Feulner, Jr.
Lewis E. Lehrman
Hon. Frank Shakespeare
Jay Van Andel

Henry Salvatori

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My motive for offering my services is simple: I admire and respect President Nixon and would be honored to have a small part in assuring the success of this undertaking.

I am attaching a brief vitae to further introduce myself. I would add that since I work full-time at Heritage, I would only be available for a few hours per week. I think that would be sufficient, however, to advise whomever is responsible for the project.

I thank you for your time and consideration, and look forward to hearing from you.

Respectfully,

Frank L. Henry
Director of Administration