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December 3, 1968

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

Permit me to add my best wishes to those which you have received from your many friends and admirers. Being both, I may say that I cannot think of anyone better qualified to fill this most responsible position.

Your appointment comes at a time of uncertainty in international relations, a situation which you have analyzed with deep insight. The task is enormous, and your assignment is "hors categorie", where ability alone does not suffice. A dose of luck is also required. This is what Napoleon demanded of his generals, and this, dear Henry, is what I wish you from the bottom of my heart.

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Dr. Henry Kissinger
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Let me add my most sincere congratulations to the
many you have already received. President-elect Nixon made
a wise choice indeed.

I have often recalled my days (1959-1960) with you
and your colleagues in the Harvard Defense Policy Seminar,
which was a highpoint in my Harvard legal education. One
trait of yours which stood out during these sessions, to me
at least, was the desire to constantly admonish us to look
at these complicated defense/foreign policy issues from the
administrator's (or decision maker's) point of view. To a
decision maker they were not academic issues, but problems
for which solutions - either temporary or long range - must
be sought. I'm confident that this trait will serve you in
good stead after January 20th.

I must also express my satisfaction in your appoint-
ment by a Republican President-elect. You see, since my Harvard
days, when, among other things, I was President of the HLS
Young Republicans and in 1959 had you speak to our club, I've
been active in Republican Party affairs in Illinois and am
currently a member of our Party's Central Committee. Naturally,
therefore, I want the Nixon administration to be a good one,
in fact, a very good one. I am sure your appointment will
make a major contribution to that desired end.

WCI:mjs

Wooster, Ohio

September 24, 1968

Hon. John Ashbrook, M.C.
House Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Representative Ashbrook;

Just a few questions as we plan to vote this fall;

* **WHY** can't we convince Congress to divert at least 50% of the proposed 1968-69 military budget, to possible programs in our own 50 United States, for re-habilitation, housing, pollution, medical care and education? We need to do this!

* **WHERE** and to whom should we now turn to get sincere and capable Representatives, who will get us out of S.E. Asia very soon and who will take the lead to gradually close-out at least ½ of our 700 or more world-wide military outposts and installations? The money saved here alone, will help our financial economy!

* **WHEN** can our U.S. Government start a program to move against crime and lawlessness and at the same time bolster every State, County, City and Township law enforcement agencies? This should bring law, order and protection to our local cities and to each citizen!

* **WHO** will take up the necessary leadership among our elected Congressional Representatives and State officials, to promote and effect PEACE, with a total and permanent disarmament plan, among all powers and under the influence of The United Nations? We really want this leadership!

* **WHAT** is the answer to the plan of a civilian voluntary enlistment training corps, for the young men in the Armed services VS. our present Selective Service with compulsory universal military conscription of our youth? What we really need is only citizen leaders with proper education and experience, with financial inducements of an attractive career, in technological skills, missile protection, plus air and sea power!

* **HOW** can we reorganize our National Defense Department, to recover and maintain complete civilian control of the Military and their senseless spending of Billions, needlessly? Again, we need proper and capable political leadership!

* **FINALLY** the possible complete answers to these 6 queries, would certainly result in a sweeping reorganization of our entire political structure - that now seemingly succombs to pressure, from all types of power groups, including industrialists, labor unions, militarists, big business and many, many other influential and selfish lobbyists!

The need to depend upon our representative government leaders is more important than ever! If we cannot trust you, our elected Representatives and our United States Senators - to whom could we turn to lead us?

We trust you and hope you and others will eventually see our most important needs and act to effect it!

Will you help? May I have your reply?

Thanks,

P.S. - Even though this is a copy to our 17th District of Ohio - Rep. John Ashbrook, I would like to have your opinion, also.

R.B.J.

DEC 6 1968

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

SENIOR SEMINAR IN FOREIGN POLICY

FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE
WASHINGTON

December 4, 1968

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Henry:

Like all of your friends, I am delighted by your new appointment!
This delight is deepened by my belief that it will be for the good
of the country.

Each year since 1958 you have talked to the Senior Seminar in Foreign
Policy. I have heard you the last four times with deepening apprecia-
tion of the lucidity, balance and honesty of your approach to foreign
affairs. I am glad you are to be in the White House.

I wish you every success. If the Senior Seminar can ever be of help
by deliberating on a subject and coming up with a paper, I hope you
will throw us the problem. I enclose an illustrated brochure
regarding the Seminar of 1968-69.

I have one twinge of regret: since you are already working full
time, I doubt that it will be possible for you to spare a morning
or afternoon for the Senior Seminar between now and January 20. If
you could, I would make any necessary adjustments.

After January 20, perhaps the most convenient way to arrange things
would be for me to bring the 24 Members of the Seminar to see you
in the Fish Room at the White House in May or June. Walt Rostow
used to talk to the Seminar there.

With best wishes and congratulations,

Enclosure:
Brochure

KALB, Robert D.

Colonel, U.S. Air Force; born Indiana, 1919; Assistant Deputy Director for Plans and Policy, Headquarters United States Air Force. Previous Service: India, China, Okinawa, Japan, Brazil.

KENNEDY, Philip B.

Career Civil Service, Grade 16, Central Intelligence Agency; born Massachusetts, 1924; Chief, European Area, Office of Current Intelligence. Previous Service: Germany.

LEWIS, Mark B.

Foreign Service Career Reserve, Class 1, U.S. Information Agency; born New York, 1923; Assistant Director, USIA (Africa). Previous Service: Lebanon, Egypt, India, Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Ghana.

ODENTHAL, Joseph T.

Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps; born Illinois, 1922; Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific. Previous Service: Pacific Area, Viet-Nam.

RIVES, Lloyd M.

Foreign Service Officer, Class 2, Department of State; born New York, 1921; Counselor and Charge d'Affaires, a.i., Bujumbura. Previous Service: Germany, Indonesia, Guatemala, France, Congo (B).

SNIFFIN, Charles R.

Colonel, U.S. Army; born Haiti, 1924; Chief of Staff, Headquarters, 4th Infantry Division, Rep. of Viet-Nam. Previous Service: North Africa, Italy, Bulgaria, Austria, Korea, Germany.

TENNY, Francis B.

Foreign Service Career Reserve, Class 2, U.S. Information Agency; born New York, 1920; Cultural Affairs Officer, Bangkok. Previous Service: Japan, China, India, Indonesia.

TRAGEN, Irving G.

Foreign Service Officer, Class 1, Department of State; born California, 1922; Director, USAID Mission to Bolivia. Previous Service: Mexico, El Salvador, Venezuela, Chile.

USHER, Richard E.

Foreign Service Officer, Class 1, Department of State; born Wisconsin, 1919; Counselor for Political Affairs, Manila. Previous Service: Canada, Ceylon, Belgium, Burma.

WORTZEL, Arthur I.

Foreign Service Officer, Class 2, Department of State; born New Jersey, 1919; Deputy Director, Soviet and Eastern European Exchanges Staff, Bureau of European Affairs. Previous Service: Australia, Japan, Poland, USSR.

## AN OBJECTIVE: Updating knowledge of the USA

In addition to reviewing foreign policy problems, an important phase of the Seminar's study program is designed to bring up-to-date the Membership's knowledge of the latest social, economic, scientific and industrial developments in the USA. Officers serving the United States abroad do their best to keep up with the dynamic changes taking place in this country, but they can represent the United States better if they possess recent, first-hand experience, acquired while listening on the spot to the views of eminent educators, industrialists, scientists, business and labor leaders, social workers, governors, mayors and law enforcement authorities. During their ten months of study, Members also perform individual travel to the regions of the world in which they have a special interest and prepare, as a result of their travel, case studies and reports useful to the Agencies of the U.S. Government.

## STAFF OF THE SENIOR SEMINAR

Ambassador G. Lewis JONES
Coordinator

Foreign Service Officer since 1930. Service in UK, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Tunisia. First American Ambassador to Tunisia; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; Minister, US Embassy, London; Coordinator, Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy since 1964. Rank: Career Minister.

Orson W. TRUEWORTHY
Deputy Coordinator

Foreign Service Officer, Class 2, Department of State. Previous Service: Greece and Syria. Executive Director, Bureau of East Asian Affairs; Deputy Coordinator of Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy since 1967.

John F. MAISTO
Research Assistant

Foreign Service Officer, Class 7, Department of State. Previous Service: Argentina, Bolivia.

# SENIOR SEMINAR IN FOREIGN POLICY

Eleventh Session
1968-1969

## ITS PURPOSES AND ITS MEMBERSHIP

FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

## AN ADVANCED TRAINING PROGRAM

The Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy, held annually since 1958, is a component of the Foreign Service Institute, Department of State. The Senior Seminar is the most advanced program of studies in international relations and foreign policy offered by any agency of the United States Government. Each session, which lasts from August to June, is limited to an honor group of about 25 senior officials. Half of these are career officers of the American Foreign Service, who are being trained for important field assignments such as Chiefs of Mission or Deputy Chiefs of Mission and comparable posts in the Department of State. The other half are officers possessing an equal degree of achievement and length of service, nominated by the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and other U.S. Government Departments and Agencies in Washington.

The average age of Members is in the mid-40's. Their average length of U.S. Government service is 23 years.

Membership in the Seminar is awarded on the basis of excellence of performance, demonstrated leadership and potential for the assumption of greater responsibilities.

Mail: Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy, O/FSI
Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520

Telephone: Area Code 202, DUdley 3-2039
or
Area Code 202, DUdley 3-2528

Location: Foreign Service Institute
1400 Key Boulevard
Arlington, Virginia

## AN HONOR GROUP

THESE INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SENIOR SEMINAR IN FOREIGN POLICY FOR 1968-1969 (ELEVENTH SESSION)

ABRAHAMSON, Sherman R.

Career Civil Service, Grade 16, Department of Commerce; born Minnesota, 1920; Deputy Director, Office of Export Control, Bureau of International Commerce.

CLARK, Edward W.

Foreign Service Officer, Class 1, Department of State; Born New York, 1917; Country Director for Panama. Previous Service: Panama, Ethiopia, Argentina.

BUTTERFIELD, Samuel H.

Foreign Service Reserve Officer, Class 1, Agency for International Development; born Idaho, 1924; Director, USAID Mission, Tanzania. Previous Service: Tanganyika, Sudan.

CORLEY, Frank W., Jr.

Captain, U.S. Navy; born Virginia, 1925; Deputy Assistant for JCS Matters, Office of the Director, Joint Staff, OJCS. Previous Service: Atlantic, Pacific, Korea, Mediterranean, Caribbean.

CULBERT, William E.

Foreign Service Officer, Class 2, Department of State; born New Jersey, 1925; Adviser, Office of International Trade. Previous Service: France, Japan.

DUFF, James A.

Career Civil Service, Grade 15, General Accounting Office; born Connecticut, 1925; Assistant Director, Defense, State and Other International Activities, International Division. Previous Service: Spain, France.

EASUM, Donald B.

Foreign Service Officer, Class 2, Department of State; born Indiana, 1923; Deputy Chief of Mission, Niamey. Previous Service: Nicaragua, Indonesia, Senegal.

GRAVER, William J.

Foreign Service Reserve Officer, Class 2, Department of State; born Maryland, 1922; Foreign Affairs Specialist, German Affairs. Previous Service: Italy, Austria, Germany.

HOUGHTON, Robert B.

Foreign Service Officer, Class 2, Department of State; born Massachusetts, 1921; Country Director for Arab North. Previous Service: Kenya, Israel, Syria, United Kingdom, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jordan.

JOHNSON, Richard E.

Foreign Service Officer, Class 2, Department of State; born Illinois, 1920; Alternate Representative on the Trusteeship Council, US Mission to UN, New York. Previous Service: Hong Kong, Canada, Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria.

JOYCE, Edward J.

Foreign Service Career Reserve, Class 2, U.S. Information Agency; born Illinois, 1915; Cultural Attache, Germany. Previous Service: Germany, India.

BRADFORD, William G.

Foreign Service Officer, Class 2, Department of State; born Illinois, 1925; Deputy Chief of Mission, Freetown. Previous Service: Germany, Italy, Vietnam, Congo.

BRUBECK, William H.

Foreign Service Officer, Class 1, Department of State; born Missouri, 1920; Political Counselor, London.

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Embassy
of the Federal Republic of Germany
New Delhi
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Counsellor for Economic
Affairs

New Delhi, December 11, 1968

P.O.B. 613

Professor Henry Kissinger,
Center of International Affairs,
6, Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge / Mass.

Dear Professor Kissinger,

I missed the news of your appointment in the Indian press but saw it in one of the German papers and would like to congratulate you to it. I am afraid I cannot write poems but I am very happy to know that someone whom I have listened to with rapt attention during almost the whole time of my stay in Harvard, whose opinion I valued and whose judgement I respected, will now have an opportunity to put into practice some of his ideas on the decision making process in Washington. As you know Sigrid and I were very disappointed that we were not posted to Washington. I have meanwhile found my new assignment in New Delhi also rather interesting, even if my time at Harvard was not exactly a preparation for economic and commercial work in the German Embassy here. But who knows we may be in Washington yet.

Two very good friends of mine who are, I feel, energetic
capable and promising, are at the German Embassy in Washington
working in the political field: Carl Lahusen and Hartmut
Schulze-Boysen. Both visited us in Harvard and are keen on
their work in Washington. I hope you will find an opportunity
to meet them. I think they are well worthwhile to talk to.

When I think about our time in Harvard, I have a distinct
nostalgia for the fascinating, tolerant, and intellectually
most valuable experience. And you were very much part of the
Harvard year.

With kindest regards, I remain,

Georg Kahn-Ackermann,

Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages

Herrn
Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
Divinity Avenue 6
Cambridge / Mass. / USA

DEC 13 1968

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Lieber Professor Kissinger !

Bei einem Besuch in London vor 5 oder 6 Wochen erfuhr ich zum ersten Mal aus dem Mund von George Brown, dass Sie sich entschlossen hätten, Chefberater beim neuen Präsidenten zu werden. Uns allen war das, das will ich offen gestehen, eine grosse Beruhigung. Indessen wird wohl für Ihre Aktivitäten in Harvard künftig nur noch wenig Zeit bleiben.

Ich bedanke mich für die Formulare zur Anmeldung deutscher Teilnehmer am International Seminar. Aber bevor ich eine Empfehlung abgebe, wüsste ich sehr gern, wie sich die beiden letzten 1967 und 68 sozusagen durch die SPD-Fraktion empfohlenen Teilnehmer im Seminar gemacht haben. Könnte man darüber ein paar Worte hören?

Ich wage garnicht daran zu denken, dass man Sie in absehbarer Zeit vielleicht noch einmal sieht.

Mit den allerherzlichsten Wünschen und den besten Grüssen
von meiner Frau und allen guten Drogen für Ihre

Ihr

Ambassade Royale
d'Afghanistan
Le Caire

DEC 18 1968

Cairo, December 8th, 1968

Dear Mr. Kissinger,

It is with great pleasure that I read
that Mr. Richard Nickson, the newly-elected President of
the U S A has chosen you as his counsellor for national
security affairs.

Undoubtedly, this news had been received
by your friends with great appreciation and satisfaction,
due to your wisdom, experience and distinguished personality.
I am confident that your rare qualifications will be of great
value for the success of your post and will have a positive
bearing on the American Government's outlook about many
important matters.

Please accept my sincere heartfelt congra-
tulations for your assignment. If by any chance, by this part
of the world, I wish you will let me know, so that we can
arrange a get together. Meanwhile, if there is any thing I
can do for you here or in Afghanistan, please do let me know.
And by the way, do you have any news of Mr. Quick, the Foreign
Affairs Editor who came to see us in Afghanistan a year ago.
If you are in touch with him, please convey to him my best
regards.

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
Director of the Institute of International Affairs
Harvard University Cambridge Mass. U S A

JAN 6 1969

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13, Hyde Park Gardens,
London, w. 2.

2 January, 1969.

My dear Henry,

I thought I would wait for a while before writing to congratulate you on the signal compliment that President-elect Nixon has paid you in selecting you as his principal adviser on foreign and national security affairs. I am sure you must have been inundated with messages during the few days immediately after the announcement was made.

Having not only known you over the last ten years but also having had the opportunity during the Harvard Seminar of 1956 of working very closely with you, I am personally very encouraged that your analytical mind, your breadth of vision and, above all, your humanity will play some considerable part in the formulation and implementation of the United States' foreign policy during the next few years. The fact that both the late President Kennedy and President Johnson had themselves made use of your talents before the President-elect is added reason for me to be particularly happy at your ever-increasing role in the Government of the United States and, therefore, in America's contribution towards international co-existence and her understanding of the problems (particularly the economic ones) of the "developing world". Anyway, I am personally very happy indeed to see you on the President's staff.

Since I last saw you in Boston (I believe in the summer of 1965), I did a year at the School of International Studies of NYU with Prof. Tom Frank, and then was "grabbed back" by my Government. I was on our Delegation to the General Assembly of the UN - 1966, and since September, 1967, I have been attached to our High Commission in London as Minister with special responsibility for our economic interests - i.e. in an effort to increase the quantum of governmental aid to Ceylon from Britain, and to encourage investment in Ceylon by

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the private sector here. If you have been following Ceylon's progress in the last two or three years, you will no doubt have noted that the present Government has placed our economic development (more specifically agricultural self-sufficiency) as its first priority. I am happy to be able to say that things are beginning to improve for us in that field although we are still subject, together with several other raw material producing countries, to the adverse impact of a downward trend in commodity prices and an alarmingly high rate of increase in the costs of machinery and other imported goods that we have necessarily to buy from the richer countries of the world. We were disappointed with the results of UNCTAD II last year. However, it is of course the hope of all of us that those who in the last resort guide the affairs of the world are not completely unaware of, and insensitive to, the perils ahead if the solution of these basic problems are allowed to be overlooked or postponed under pressure of the more immediate and more limited problems that arise from time to time - of which, of course, the year 1968 has had more than its fair share!

I do not know whether you are likely to be visiting London in the near future, but I am sure that in the course of your numerous trips from the U.S. to other parts of the world, you do every so often pass through here. I shall be more than happy to get a chance of seeing you even for a short time and talk about "cabbages and kings" with you. It will be refreshing to see you once again. I do, of course, follow your thinking on the major international problems of our time by recourse to the Foreign Affairs and other journals which carry your articles. I have also recently - and, I am ashamed to say, rather belatedly - read your latest book. Needless to say, I do not entirely agree with some of your views contained in it. But then, one of the pleasures of talking to you or reading your writings is the intellectual stimulation or provocation that such an exercise provides.

I hope this finds you in good health, and I wish you All the Best in the year that has just opened.

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger,
Professor of Government,
Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts 02138.

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December 4, 1968

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Government Department
Harvard College
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

AIR MAIL

First of all...please let me congratulate you on your recent appointment
to the National Security Council.

Naturally...as a Harvard alumnus and as a Republican, I am delighted to hear that you will have a hand in shaping our future.

Something more than this however, made this letter necessary. As reported in our local press...it is your intention to "prevent crisis operations" and to "plan to revitalize the National Security Council... so we may not just react...but so we can have a planned policy in effect". This is exactly what we should have, in my estimation...a planned policy so that we act positively rather than react negatively as we have in the past.

I remember Professor Brinton who I believe gave a course on Russia and the Near East where he pointed out that "Control of the Time Table" by Russia was the most important point in their foreign policy at the turn of the century.

I believe our "Control of the Time Table" is also most important and this can be done by "acting rather than just reacting.

Again...good luck on your new venture.

RjK/mw

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December 5, 1968

Dear Henry:

May I offer my warmest congratulations on your well-deserved appointment. Mr Nixon has more than compensated for his first selection with his second one. All who know you feel powerfully assured that the responsibilities of foreign policy and security planning have a man cut to the measure of the task. I am sure that both overseas and here you will give the Administration honorable access to a sceptical constituency of intellectuals who may not cast many votes but whose savage or petulant hostility can be pretty terrible. Beyond that, everyone in the 'public service class' will breathe a bit more easily. The country is fortunate. I wish you the very best of luck.

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6th December, 1968

Professor
Henry Kissinger
c/o HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Cambridge, Mass. 02138

Dear Professor Kissinger:

I was born "Werner Kissinger" in Nuernberg, Germany, left in '39, and wonder
whether we are in fact related? (name was Anglicized to Kingsley upon arrival)

My great-grandfather was one of the first Jews in Bad Kissingen to own size-
able farm-lands, which he tilled while also raising and trading in horses
and live-stock. My grandfather's first name was Isodore, who left Bad
Kissingen for Nuernberg where he built and operated a leather-goods factory.
Does that in any way parallel the history of your forebearers?

Congratulations on your advisory appointment to the Nixon administration.
I hope you will be able to make your views on foreign and military matters
stick with this administration so that future foul-ups like the "develop-
ment" of the Vietnam involvement can be avoided.

I strongly share the views of General Dave Shoup, and many other senior
Marine Officers, who feel certain that conventional global wars are a thing
of the past.

Unfortunately, seemingly very few people in our administration have grasped the fact of the intense need for a change in our approach to war. The future holds in store "The New Conflict" wars, that cannot be fitted into neat, simple geographic and ideological boundaries. For "The New Conflict" will not be a war of annihilation, but of psychological victory. We have got to find an alternative to massive nuclear retaliation, if the mutation of the nuclear era into a psychological one is accepted as valid.

The prize of the New Conflict is the mind of populations, regardless of
national boundaries. One side uses coercion and terror, the other persu-
ation and example, or both. Therefore, we must alter our philosophy
on future wars by producing military leaders, soldiers, and weapons that
are capable of winning these new mainly psychological conflicts. These
people, as well as our government leaders, must come to realize that in
future wars, fronts will be non-existent. Enemy locations will be vague;
yet covert infiltration can turn apparently peaceful cities into a war-
wracked inferno within hours.

I hope you will be able to make our leaders see this need for change.

NK/lm

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January 3, 1969

Professor Henry Kissinger
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Professor Kissinger:

I have long since wanted to write you, but the occasion of your being appointed to the President's Cabinet gives me the necessary motivation. Let me first wish you my sincere congratulations for the honor that has been extended to you. I am sure that you will be a great credit to the new administration and to yourself in the position that has been accorded you.

The reason for my wanting to write to you, is that I am rather anxious to establish some sort of contact. I believe that we are distantly related. My father tells me we are something like distant cousins, and I am rather curious as to what the relationship is exactly, and wonder whether if ever you should chance to come to the Miami area, we might not get together. Our family name, before my father changed it when I was a very young child, was Kissinger. My family come from Nurenburg, my father's name being Albert, and his father's name having been Isadore Kissinger. I am even sorrier that my father changed his name. I have always felt a little guilty about it, but had no say in the matter.

At any rate, without prolonging things, let me wish you well again. If you do have a moment in your busy schedule I would appreciate hearing from you; if not, I will certainly understand.

In the meantime, best wishes for the coming year, and very best regards as well.

DEC 10 1968

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Dr. Henry A. Kissenger
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Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Henry:

I was delighted to learn of your appointment by President-elect Nixon as assistant for national security affairs. It is great news both for what it should mean to you and for what I know it will mean to our country, and for that matter, international affairs in general.

It was a pleasure last month to make arrangements with your office for Bob Thompson and Ted Serong to meet in New York City with you and Governor Rockefeller. Both of them had just before that provided a most stimulating performance at the annual Counterinsurgency Research and Development Symposium sponsored by ARPA and held this year at the Battelle Columbus Laboratories.

Bob Thompson will continue to serve us as a consultant which will entail an occasional trip by him to Columbus. I anticipate that his next visit will be sometime after March of next year. If you so desire, I will let your White House office know when he is expected here for any of his future visits and then you can decide whether or not you wish him to add a meeting with you to his schedule.

Most sincere congratulations on your appointment and best wishes throughout the assignment.

IJK:lj
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M. Kohnsmann

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my very best wishes for a most successful period at the White
from star the excitement of you new work and to express you
These few lines are just to show you that I am here

and plans.

he will manage to see you and to inform you about our plans

Jean Monnet is in the States now and I sincerely trust
he will manage to see you and to inform you about our plans

you expressed in it.

book and found myself very much in agreement with the views
hold of a copy of the article which you wrote for the Brookings
press you got as a send-off to your new job. I managed to get
this must be to you. I was so glad to see what a wonderful
What a tremendous responsibility and what a wonderful challenge
My warmest congratulations on your nomination!

Dear Henry:

Masa.
Cambridge

Harvard University,
Special Assistant to the President-Elect,
Prof. Henry A. Kissinger, A. M., Ph.D.

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DEC 16 1968

DEC 20 1968

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Center
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New Delhi-3

T. V. KUNHI KRISHNAN

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

I have just received your letter asking me to assist you in attracting participants for the 1969 International Seminar at Harvard University. It was a pleasant coincidence that I read this morning in the International Herald Tribune your appointment by President-elect Nixon as his White House Assistant for national security affairs. My hearty congratulations to you.

I am very happy to note that James Reston thinks that the appointment is a reassuring sign that the new administration is going to make a serious and objective reprisal of its security problems and priorities. It really gladdens my heart to read Reston's article in which he has welcomed your appointment. I also read with interest the enthusiastic endorsement of your appointment by the Washington Post.

Only three days ago in Calcutta I was talking about you to Mr. Satchidananda Sahai, the Assistant Editor of Statesman who was with me at Harvard in the 1962 seminar. I shall send you soon my recommendations about the participants for the 1969 seminar.

I have resigned my position as General Manager for the Southern Languages Book Trust in Madras and I am now working as Special Consultant to the Educational Resources Center set up by the University of the State of New York for stimulating the flow of educational materials from India to the United States.

Once more my best wishes to you.

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Executive Director
Harvard University
International Seminar
471 Broadway
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
U.S.A.

Dr. Heinrich Krone
Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages

DEC 13 1968

53 Bonn, 6. Dezember 1968

Fernruf 206 2924

Die Wahl dieser Rufnummer vermittelt den gewünschten Hausanschluß.
Kommt ein Anschluß nicht zustande, bitte
Nr. 2061 (Bundeshaus-Vermittlung anrufen.

Verehrter, lieber Herr Professor Kissinger,

die Nachricht, daß Präsident Nixon Sie zu seinem Berater
für Fragen der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik bestellt hat,
hat uns, die wir Sie kennen und hoch schätzen, mit besonderer
Freude erfüllt.

Ich denke zurück an die Gespräche, die wir, als ich noch im
Amte war, des öfteren hatten. Ich weiß, wie Sie die Welt sehen
und was für Sie letzte Motive Ihres politischen Handelns sind.

Sie haben vor Jahren Ihre Heimat verlassen müssen. Ich muß
daran wieder denken, wo ich in unseren Zeitungen Ihren Lebens-
lauf lese.

Alles Gute für Sie persönlich. Ein erfolgreiches Wirken für
eine in der großen Linie doch gemeinsame Sache.

Mit besten Grüßen

Ihr.

Ihr

Mit besten Grüßen

eine in der Großen Linie doch gemeinsame Sache.

Allesa Gute für Sie herauslief. Ein erfolgreiches Wirken für

laut sehe.

daran wieder denken, wo ich in unseren Zeitanlagen Ihren Repara-
sie pappen vor Jahren Ihre Heimat verlässeen müszen. Ich und

und was für Sie letzte Motive Ihre politischen Handelns sind.
Amte waren, des ölteren hatten. Ich weiß, wie Sie die Welt sehen
Ich denke Anrück an die Gebräuche, die wir, sla ich noch im

Freude erfüllt.

hat uns, die wir sie kennen und noch schätzen, mit beaufderen
tür Fragen der Angen- und Sicherheitspolitik beantwortet hat,
die Maßricht, das Präsident Nixon sie zu seinem Berater

Verehrt er lieber Herr Professor Klaasen,

Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages
Dr. Heinrich Krone

Nr. 308 (Bundesgesetze-Versammlung anzuwenden.
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gemündeter Hausanschluß.
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DEC 12 1968 [Okt]

DEC 6 1968

OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20301

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS

3 December 1968

Dear Henry,

Heartiest congratulations on your White House appointment. There is tremendous opportunity for important service in such a position and I am delighted to see someone as clear thinking as you move into the job.

It has been fashionable around here for quite some time to decry overelaborate NSC staff procedures of the Eisenhower period, but at least they had the virtue of producing approved policies and making sure that everyone knew and applied them. Nowadays, it is often a guessing game to decide what current policy is and there are often many different answers.

I wish you every success in your new work.

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
HEADQUARTERS
U. S. ARMY INTELLIGENCE COMMAND
FORT HOLABIRD, MARYLAND 21219

DEC 5 1968

ICCG

3 December 1968

Doctor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge Massachusetts 02138

Dear Henry:

Just a note to add our congratulations to your recent appointment.
I called yesterday and was unable to make contact - hence the note.

If this appointment is the key note of the coming administration
it is bound to be a good one. The President couldn't have selected
a better man.

Again our congratulations. Mrs. Lampkin joins me in wishing you
continued success, good health, and God speed.

[LC]

DEC 9 1968

December 5, 1968

PERSONAL

Dear Professor Kissinger:

Please accept my heartiest congratulations on the
assumption of your new, and rather terrible responsibilities.

I hope that, contrary to what the Press has been rumour-
ing, you also include in your thinking Latin America, and
specifically Brazil, among the priority areas for the security
of the United States, lest we have another Viet-Nam at the back-
door a few years hence.

In any event, my very best wishes for a continuing triump-
phant career.

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Premier Building, Suite 1108
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Professor Henry Kissinger
Center for International Affairs,
Harvard University
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Cambridge, Mass. 02138

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December 12, 1968

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
Department of Government
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
U. S. A.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

It is with great pleasure for me to learn
that you are to be chief staff director of National
Security Council in Nixon's organization and I wish
to express my hearty congratulations on your new
assignment.

Although there are many problems which
you are to be confronted with, I believe you will
play a important and decisive role to overcome them
and establish a firm national security and foreign
relations, and help all free nations stand strong
against communism invasion.

Especially I should like to look forward
to seeing your effort to accomplish a glorious
armistice in Viet-Nam which people of not only Korea
but all free nations are eager to observe.

I wish you a continuous success and
excellent health.

Mrs. Lee joins me in extending best
regards to you and Mrs. Kissinger.

[lc]

DEC 13 1968

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December 11, 1968

Mr. Henry Kissinger
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Congratulations upon your recent appointment with President Nixon's administration.

I am particularly pleased, because my husband and I were co-chairmen of the Citizens for Nixon-Agnew Committee in Brookline. The Headquarters were at my office, here at the answering service.

I hope that you enjoy your tenure in Washington, D.C. and that you meet with great success in the duties of your office.

My husband and I look forward to seeing you at the Inaugural Ball.

Sincerely,

Florence Davis Levenson
FDL:njy

P.S. If you decide to disconnect your Boston telephone number, please call me as I do have a suggestion that will unable you to protect your telephone number and incoming calls without the telephone instrument.

DEC 6 1968

Columbia University in the City of New York | New York, N.Y. 10027

EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE

Kent Hall

December 4, 1968

Dear Henry:

I am delighted that you agreed to accept Mr. Nixon's invitation to serve as his special assistant for national security affairs, and I know that Asia has not been ignored by you, as some news stories suggest, and that it will not be in the future.

In the confusion of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution you may have missed "Mao's Talk on Strategic Deployment," published in 1967. One passage from this is particularly striking: "China is not only the political center of world revolution, but should become the military and technical center, supplying weapons to the world's revolutionaries. By now China should be able to supply openly weapons marked in Chinese characters to the world revolutionaries (except in special areas) and become the arsenal of the world revolution." Fortunately, Mao has largely aborted his own hopes in this regard for the present by launching his ill-fated Cultural Revolution.

Ben Brown tells me you may attend the Japan-American Seminar at Wingspread in January where we could talk about this and related matters. I hope you will make it.

With best wishes,

JMHL:em

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December 5, 1968

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Henry:

I have read the news about your important post in the new Administration and hasten to offer you my warm congratulations and best wishes. What delights me particularly is that I regard you as a man whose external priorities are primarily concerned with our relations with Europe, which is the view I too share. It seems to me that during these last four years our foreign policy has been badly led astray by the Asia Firsters, who misled us into this political and military insanity of fighting a land war against Asians on the Asian continent.

As you know, there are misgivings about this policy in military circles as well as in policy-making quarters. I lecture regularly each year at three of our war colleges, and have spoken consistently in opposition to our recent foreign policy--and still they ask me back.

I hope very much that you will be able to continue membership on the Committee on Atlantic Studies while you are serving the new President. If you should feel obliged to withdraw, I would understand, although I would deeply regret it. In any case, let's keep in touch and I look forward to further cooperation.

With warm regards.

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DEC 9 1968

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PERSONAL

December 9, 1968

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

I think it was either in the course of our meeting at the
Air War College in Montgomery or at the Naval War College
in Newport when we established that we had a similar back-
ground. I mentioned to you at the time that I was born in
Nuernberg.

Much has happened since then. I became the only non-U.S.
born Naval Reserve Flag Officer and you will add to your
laurels in your assignment in the new administration.

I couldn't think of a more qualified person for this
highly sensitive and complex assignment and would like
to offer my sincere congratulations.

As I recall it - we agreed on two basic points, neither
one of which was very popular at the time. We felt that,
difficult as he is, President DeGaulle has a remarkable
sense of history and usually turns out to have been right
in the long run.

The other was that we had some misgivings about the security
of making West Germany the cornerstone of our European
defense system - although there was no alternative.

I was particularly interested in your article in the Chicago
Sun Times on December 8th, and as always, I found it
excellent. There is one subject you did not mention -

DEC 8 1968

[LC]

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December 6, 1968

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
419 Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

Congratulations on your appointment by President Elect Nixon!!!

It certainly is a thrill for me to see you carry your career to
such lofty heights. You certainly have worked hard to make the most of your
abilities and deserve all the benefits for your efforts.

In a less serious vein, since I knew you when you were some-
what less prominent, I must tell you that as a soldier you were a complete
and total disaster. You were by all odds, the soldier I would least likely
to be with in a fox-hole under combat conditions. A conservative estimate
of your life expectancy on the front lines would be about 5-seconds. Your
uniform at reveille was an original "Sad Sack". In addition, if we knew we
were dealing with such a potentially prominent figure, we would have been
more careful serving you your hard boiled eggs in the mornings that you failed
to make breakfast.

After we left Camp Claiborne in Louisiana, I was a First Scout
in our Rifle Company because of my diligent work. As a result thereof, I was
captured in Geilenkirchen and spent the rest of my days as a German P.O.W.
Most of our A.S.T.P. friends that I knew of overseas were really chopped up.
Our friend Drew Pearson and his article on A.S.T.P. was certainly responsible
for eliminating a lot of fine minds in this country. I might add that my be-
coming a prisoner was not all due to my fault but some of it due to our idiot
Colonel Roosma.

I became a C.P.A. in 1948 and joined the Internal Revenue
Service for about 8-years and am presently engaged in public accounting as
a Tax Advisor.

A few weeks ago I met a young tax attorney from Chicago,
named Bob Robin, who tells me he crosses your path every so often - I believe
he was responsible for some tax programs during President Elect Nixon's
campaign.

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