18 December 1959

WBL,

Information on DPS students interested in Aerojet.

1. Robert A. Johnson, 31 Creighton Street, Cambridge 40, Mass.

Tel: UN 4-0996

3rd year Law Student

Grades: 1st year 67 258/475
2nd year 65 363/468

AB Yale University '55

Major subject: Economics

2. George Francis Menkick, 337 Waltham Street, West Newton, Mass.

Tel: BI 4-0024

2nd Year Business School

Grades: 1st year 74 About middle of third third.

SB - Mechanical Engineering - Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, Illinois

There is one more young man who has applied. He is not a
DPS student but attends the DP Seminars. He is as follows:

Jerry Porter, employed by
McGuire & Co. Engineering firm
Boston. Is interested in Aerojet and would like to be
interviewed by Aerojet representative when he comes here.

Home telephone KI 7-6795.

I believe the correct firm name is Chas. A. Maguire &
Associates, 14 Court Square, Boston. Richmond 2-0355.

Would you like me to find out any more about this young man?

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LAW SCHOOL
MEMORANDUM

FROM ... Leach

To ... Kissinger

Men from the DPS now in Defense activites:

Timothy W. Stanley, OSD, then White
House under Goodpaster, now back in OSD

Robert W. Berry, OSD

Bailey Mason, Harbridge House

Richardson, OCDM

Ratus Kelley, OSD

William C. Wiseley, Aerojet Strategic
Planning Group.

All but Richardson and Kelley were
staff members.

Law School of Harvard University

Cambridge 38, Mass.

10 February 1960

Dear Henry,

That is a marvelous letter to the TIMES. Your paragraph two as to the obsolescence of World War II expertise is very deftly put. I wonder whether you recall a rather striking example of how wrong an over-age expert can be in the face of massive technological change. In Volume I of The Truman Memoirs, page 11, it is re-counted that Admiral Leahy was present when Dr. Bush was explaining the A-Bomb to Truman in May, 1945:

"That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done," [Leahy] observed in his sturdy, salty manner. "The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives."

An article by Tom Phillips in the Post-Dispatch on 1 February refers to "a recent series of studies by the Mershon National Security Program of Ohio State University" which war-game nuclear attack and retaliation on various assumptions. I enclose a copy of this article and request you to return it. This is one of the things we could do if we had some money.

I suggest that you write to Harvey Mansfield and ask for a couple of copies of this study.

enclosure: Article - "Gates Is Optimistic in Finding There is no 'Deterrent Gap' in America's Military Strength"

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

LAW SCHOOL
MEMORANDUM

FROM Leach

To Kissinger

Note attached editorial.

If some student needs a subject for a
paper I would suggest "The Defense
Record of the Eisenhower Administration."

(a) statistics on forces, 1953-60 by
categories.

(b) fiscal statistics
(1953-60)

(c) representative comments/by such
reasonably non-partisan media as:
Life
Wall St. Journal
NYTime
Wash. Post
N.Y. H-T
Business Week

Another paper: "The Operation of
Deterrence in the Korean Episode,
1950-53)" The question of who was
deterring whom from what and how is
fascinating and reasonably capable of
documentation.

Cambridge 38, Mass.

PERSONAL

24 February 1960

Dear Henry,

Please note attached copy of letter to Loosbrock, which was in reply to one of his saying that he thought our conference "very productive" and that he would push the matter hard.

I did talk to Don Price about this, and his response was entirely sympathetic. Moreover the whole atmosphere of that faculty meeting was one of great solicitude for you and the program -- perhaps they have heard some rumors.

Whatever we are going to do in the development of the DSP can be better done if we get Trevor Dupuy on the staff. He is a born organizer as well as a first-rate scholar. He could make a terrific success out of a special course for industry people, especially with his experience in running the Military History Courses at Ohio State.

Without any consent from you I am writing to Trevor to let him know that this may be in the offing and to avoid irrevocable commitments. I'll bet he and his wife have had enough Jungle rot and Prickly Heat by now in Rangoon.

enclosure

Copy: Prof. Kissinger

24 February 1960

Dear Jack,

Thanks for the check.

Yesterday we had a meeting of the faculty of the Graduate School of Public Administration and I had a chance to talk to the Dean about the project of putting on a special program for members of industry (especially the operations research and long-range planning groups) on problems of strategy and military policy. The reaction was entirely favorable, and I anticipate no difficulty in working up such a program of appropriate length and intensity at a time of the year which is mutually agreeable to ourselves and the industrial participants.

Thus it seems that we are in a position to offer to industry (a) the prospect of directing a limited number of our students into industrial establishments concerned with defense policy and (b) providing specific training in special programs attuned to the needs of industrial personnel.

The basic requirement for both of these tasks is a staff of adequate depth and assured continuity. And this in turn depends upon an adequate and continuous supply of funds -- which is where the Aerospace Education Foundation comes in.

I have heretofore urged that this matter be pushed forward as rapidly as possible. Right now I have in mind a man whom I should like to capture for our staff; but if we are to get him for the fall of 1960, we must not delay -- and we can't move until we have assurances of financing.

WBL:has
Mr. John F. Loosbrock
Editor
AIR FORCE MAGAZINE
Mills Building
Washington, D. C.

HEADQUARTERS
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY
COLORADO

REPLY TO
ATTN OF: DFPO

25 February 1960

SUBJECT: Graduate Schooling

TO: Professor W. Barton Leach
Harvard Law School
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Professor Leach

Some months ago you wrote us about John E. Lawyer, Jr., a senior in the college and an ROTC cadet. You asked what subject areas in graduate school would be appropriate to qualify him for future duty on this faculty.

The basic minimum degree requirement continues to be a master's degree in the subject areas of the academic department to which assigned. However, as we strive to improve our faculty, more emphasis in the future will be placed on increasing the percentage of instructors with doctor's degrees so that a minimum of 25% will be so qualified. In this department most of our instructors have master's degrees in political science and the remainder have master's degrees in public administration from the Littauer Center, the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton, or the Maxwell School of Syracuse. The major emphasis in these programs has been in the various fields of political science with minor emphasis in economics and diplomatic history.

We desire that our instructors' graduate programs be broad rather than narrowly oriented, not only so that they will be prepared to teach the variety of undergraduate courses we are responsible for in this department, but also to prepare for diverse and worldwide Air Force assignments in war planning, policy planning, and intelligence, interspersed with operational or command assignments after completion of the four-year instructor tour here. This point cannot be over-emphasized--we want to help build up in the Air Force a pool of capable officers trained in the social sciences who can bring that experience to bear upon higher echelon decision making responsibilities.

Ideally we would like our instructors in this department to take graduate courses in political theory; American government to include political parties and constitutional law; comparative government to include governments of both Europe and Asia; public policy and administration to include your pioneering area of defense policy; some work in economics to include economic analysis of public policy and international economics; and if possible some work in U. S. diplomatic history. This is obviously a lot of ground for any one student to cover well in a limited period of time.

However, in graduate school he can lay the foundations for continued
study and interest in these areas throughout his later military career.
We do not want our future instructors to concentrate their efforts in
graduate school on a limited area, such as international relations or a
geographical area program, to the detriment of an appreciation of the
broader political science field. We wish to have the flexibility of
assigning our instructors across the spectrum of the courses we teach
and be reasonably assured that he has had at least some graduate back-
ground in them.

We have found that the political science, public administration, and
joint political science-economic degree programs of the Littauer Center
are well suited for our purposes. Three of our instructors have received
their graduate degrees from the Littauer Center and two have taken your
defense policy courses. We would like all of our instructors to do some
work in defense policy, as this department has as one of its eventual
objectives the contribution to the literature of the defense policy area.
Unfortunately, not all of the graduate schools where we send future in-
structors offer work in the area. One of our future instructors is in
the Littauer Center at the present time, and we hope to have another
enter the Center next fall. An instructor who will report to the depart-
ment next summer is about to complete two years of graduate work at
Princeton; his undergraduate major was in government at Harvard. From
the above I think it is evident that we are looking for future instructors
who are well versed in the several areas of political science. The polit-
ical science Ph.D. programs at Harvard which require several areas of
study and which permit flexibility in the selection of those areas seem
to provide an ideal background. The actual possession of that highest
degree is not required but its possession or a substantial amount of
work accomplished toward it beyond the master's degree is desirable.
What I have indicated above about my department applies equally to our
other social science departments of economics and history. These depart-
ments also desire the graduate training of their instructors to be broad
and thorough in their respective disciplines. In addition to academic
qualifications, we all want instructors with fine military records and
who are highly motivated towards a lifetime military career as well as
firmly convinced of the values of military service. This is important
because our instructors have a not insignificant responsibility in trans-
mitting attitudes and values to their students by example as well as by
instruction.

In Mr. Lawyer's case, I have no doubt he will become academically qualified for future assignment to this faculty if he completes one of the excellent Littauer Center master degree programs. I suggest that he keep his goals high by directing his graduate study towards the Ph.D. even though he may not be able to complete all the degree requirements prior to entering active duty. Any advanced work he does now will better qualify him later for selection when on active duty to one of the several graduate study programs which the Air Force sponsors among its officers.

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In these programs the Air Force sends officers to graduate school for as many as two years and in rare instances for three years. Selection is usually made after at least three years active duty and carries with it a service commitment following completion of the program. I certainly hope Mr. Lawyer's motivation for an Air Force career continues. The Air Force is in a significant transition period in which greater professionalism in its officer corps is required if it is to meet its responsibilities. Young men of Mr. Lawyer's fine background are needed and they in turn can expect to find an ever-improving professional corps with which to work and to be a part of. Such a career can be expected to be a continuing source of deep personal satisfaction as well as a challenge.

General McDermott, Colonel Munch and Colonel Posvar send their best regards. If other questions arise from this young man concerning our activities at the academy, I would be most pleased to try to answer them.

Sincerely,
WILLIAM H. GRIFFITH

WALLACE H. GRIFFITH
Major, USAF
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science

Cambridge 38, Mass.

PERSONAL

25 February 1960

MEMORANDUM TO PROFESSOR KISSINGER

Subject: Staff for Defense Studies Program

I have just received the report of the Chairman of the Council of the Institute for Strategic Studies dealing with the first year of activity of this Institute.

The Institute is undertaking to do in England much the same thing that we are undertaking to do in the U.S., except that we have a <u>teaching</u> program which they do not. It is therefore interesting to observe that they are operating (a) on a $50,000 a year grant from Ford which in terms of the differential of U.S. and U.K. price levels means about $75,000, and (b) they have a staff of six persons of whom three are full-time professionals and three full-time secretariat.

I have frequently expressed the view that you cannot operate an enterprise in a completely new field on the cheap and have it succeed. To put the thing in metaphorical terms, you cannot buy half an automobile and expect it to operate. You must have a whole automobile or none at all. This then becomes a question of what constitutes a "whole automobile" in terms of the Defense Studies Program. It is my judgment that we are now significantly below the minimum that is required to do any job competently over an extended period, to say nothing of developing this enterprise so that it is a real <u>Program</u> and not simply a course.

I make the following statement without complaint, but I believe that all who are connected with this enterprise should understand it:

I now, quite properly, have no official connection with the Program and receive no "academic credit" for the

Memorandum to Professor Kissinger

work I do with it. Yet the fact is that I spend about
25% of my time on activities related to the Program -- and
so also does my secretary, whose salary for this type of
activity is paid out of my own pocket. This is not an
orderly way for things to operate and obviously cannot con-
tinue indefinitely. This Program needs adequate professional
and secretarial staff, and neither of these exist at the
present time. It also needs administrative authority
commensurate with the educational responsibility that it is
assuming, and this means a degree of administrative indepen-
dence which will allow it to do its job in its own way
consistent with general university policies. It is not sound
practice for superior authority to tell the Director of this
Program *how* to do his job in addition to *what* to do.

WBL:has

Cambridge 38, Mass.

29 February 1960

Dear Henry,

Please note the enclosed copies of three
letters:

a. Major Griffith, USAF Academy to Leach, 25 February.

b. Reply, Leach to Griffith, 29 February.

c. Leach to Price enclosing the two foregoing, 29 February.

Over to you. At the faculty meeting I considered that Dave Bell was showed a good appreciation of this problem and enthusiasm for developing this field of activity for the Graduate School of Public Administration. Isn't there any chance that we can establish Defense Policy as a "field" for the Ph.D.?

WBL:has
enclosures 3

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Director, Harvard Defense Policy
6 Divinity Avenue

(Dictated but not read by WBL)

require no drain upon the financial resources of the
School.

Obviously this is a matter for you and Henry
Kissinger to work out, so I am sending him a copy of this
letter.

WBL:has
Copy to: Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

Dean Don K. Price
Graduate School of Public Administration
Littauer 121

Irrsauer T.S.I.
Graduate School of Public Administration
Dean Don K. Price

Copy to: Dr. Henry V. Klaaringer
WBR:Jes

Very sincerely,

 letter.
Klaaringer to work out, so I am sending him a copy of this
Opinion this is a matter for you and Henry

School.
require no great effort since the financial resources of the

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29 February 1960

Major Wallace H. Griffith
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
United States Air Force Academy
Colorado

Dear Major Griffith:

Re: DFPO
Sub: Graduate Schooling

Thank you for your extraordinarily
lucid and informative letter of 25 February on
the subject of graduate schooling with particular
reference to John E. Lawyer, Jr.

It just happens that this letter is
very timely because within the last week we have
had a faculty meeting of the Graduate School of
Public Administration which dealt with these
problems and was in some doubt as to specific
attitudes and objectives at the Air Force
Academy.

WBL:has

✓ Copy: Dr. Henry A. Kissinger