LAW SCHOOL
MEMORANDUM

FROM Leach

To Kissinger

Please note attached letter from
General White. Please return.

And many thanks for your book.

LAW SCHOOL
MEMORANDUM

FROM Leach
To Kissinger

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but I'd settle for a quarter.

NYTimes 17 March '61
p. 17

Harvard to Get Million
From 1941 Trust Fund

Special to The New York Times.

PHILADELPHIA, March
16—Harvard University will
soon receive a $1,000,000 trust
estate to train young men for
Government service.

The estate became distrib-
utable with the death last
week of Mrs. Adi Caroline
Thomson, 72 years old, of
suburban Haverford. It had
been held in trust for her
since the death of her hus-
band, Frank Graham Thom-
son, in 1941.

Mr. Thomson's father,
Frank, a former president of
the Pennsylvania Railroad,
died in 1899, leaving $2,000,-
to two sons and a daughter.

In his will, Frank G. Thom-
son directed that on his wife's
death, the entire trust prin-
cipal should be "payable to
the department of Harvard
University, the income to be
expended for training young
men for the Federal service
of the Government of the
United States."

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Cambridge 38, Mass.

PERSONAL

23 May 1961

Dear Henry,

Tommy White retires on 30 June and is then
going to take a few months off fishing in Labrador
and traveling in Europe. He has no firm plans, but
does not look with favor on going into industry. He
wants to write a book -- not the usual memoirs, but a
survey of military policy.

You will remember at one time I hoped that
we could raise a fund to bring Monty here immediately
after he retired, but this was put out of the question
by his row with Ike.

I know that you were impressed as I was,
with Tommy's performance here. By all odds he is the
most thoughtful and articulate senior officer I have
known in the Air Force with the possible exception of
Norstad. As a military mind he is certainly in the
league with Gruenther and Taylor.

Do you suppose there is any chance that we
could raise enough money to make him an offer for
something like two years, it being understood that his
activities would comprise (a) participation in the
Seminar and the work of the Center, (b) research with
a view to production of a serious book? I can think of
practically no one who would be a more fruitful and
stimulating member of the Harvard Community working
in the fields of defense and foreign policy.

As is so often the case, time is likely to
be quite important. It is unlikely that he can hold
off making commitments beyond the first of July.
Before he leaves for Labrador and Europe he will
probably want to know what he is going to come back to
and where.

If you would tell me that it is worth-while

Cambridge 38, Mass.

14 June 1961

Dear Henry,

Since you were not here at the inception of the DPS when it was said that (a) the subject would not interest students (b) it was not appropriate for academic presentation and (c) guest lecturers of any stature would be unavailable, the following episode will not be as dramatic to you as it is to me. But it still may interest you.

Assistant Dean W. S. Barnes of the Law School is in charge of the International Tax Program and a prominent participant in certain area studies. He came in today and said, "We want to establish an interdisciplinary faculty seminar on Latin-American affairs with a view to having it develop into a graduate seminar. We have a committee on this, which has had several meetings. Repeatedly, the Defense Policy Seminar was mentioned as the model which we could hope to follow and whose success we could hope to emulate. Would you please let me have any descriptive literature on the Seminar; then when I have read it I will have some particular questions which I would like to ask you. If we can point out to the University authorities that we can hope to accomplish in our field what the Defense Policy Seminar has accomplished in its field, I am sure that we will get administrative approval."

Thus, the black sheep in the flock becomes the white-haired boy. Or, in Biblical terms, "The Last Shall Be First. . . ."

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Director, Defense Studies Program
6 Divinity Avenue

LAW SCHOOL
MEMORANDUM

From Leach
To Kissinger

Here is a letter from Dupuy and a copy
of my reply. Any comments? He might
drop in on me some day, so I would like
your views.

Please return for my files, taking
a copy if you wish.

HEADQUARTERS
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY
COLORADO

REPLY TO
ATTN OF:

SUBJECT:

4 October 1961

TO: Professor W. Barton Leach
Harvard Law School - ILS
Cambridge 38, Mass.

Dear Professor Leach

Somewhat to my dismay I find that five years have ticked away since my
assignment to the Air Force Academy, and under a new policy I am being
offered a sabbatical effective next summer. I would very much appreciate
an opportunity to discuss this with you and ask your advice as to how to
use the sabbatical. I am going to a meeting at Arden House commencing
19 October, and I shall make tentative plans to visit Cambridge on
Tuesday, 17 October if there is an opportunity to see you or any other
friends at Harvard, and if you think it is worthwhile to come up.

Briefly, my situation is as follows: the authorities will grant me
two years if I agree to pursue a doctorate. I do not wish to devote
two years of my life to obtaining another degree for its own sake,
partly because I don't think it is essential for me to do so at this
stage of my career, partly because Oxonians like to tell one another
that "M.A., Oxon." is a degree nearly equivalent to a Ph.D. in total
educational value.

On the other hand, I would relish the opportunity to get away and perform
a serious scholarly effort for two years, and I would be very gratified
if the effort were able to produce a Ph.D. I am presently frustrated
in many of my desires to pursue my investigative interests in the area
of defense policy because of the administrative web which has grown up
around me. Having been here since the early days of the Academy, all
of the projects which I started have now matured and exceed my willing
capacity to manage them. In short, I do need a sabbatical.

On a visit to Washington a couple of weeks ago, two very promising
possibilities developed and I am now investigating them further. One
is the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins, with
the prospect that I could work with the Washington Center of Foreign
Policy Research; the other is Princeton, which is attractive in several
ways. Nevertheless, I am still objective enough to realize that there
is no institution quite like Harvard, and I feel I would be foolish not
to at least explore the situation there. In this feeling I am strongly

encouraged by Major Bowman and Captain Larsen who are presently working
on their Ph.D. theses under the direction of Professor Elliott.

In order to assist you or any of your associates in sizing up my
qualifications I am attaching a copy of a career summary. As for my
field, although I have done work in economics, history and philosophy,
I tend to think that at this point it would be more efficient to work
in political science/government than to attempt a joint program.

I am leaving next Wednesday, 11 October for three days at Maxwell
and expect to be in Washington on the 15th and 16th. I shall attempt
to call you during that time to learn whether you think it is desirable
for me to come to Harvard on Tuesday the 17th.

May I say again how gratified I am for the good counsel you have given
to me and my associates at the Air Force Academy in the past, and how
much I appreciate the opportunity to seek your advice in this matter.