UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
COLUMBIA

Department of International Studies

June 27, 1962

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center For International Affairs
Harvard University
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

I have missed chatting with you over the past year or so, but have followed with real admiration your writings, particularly the most recent piece in *Foreign Affairs*. While I was in Washington last week I also heard other accounts of your "growing disillusionment." Imagine how I feel about the policy toward Laos or more particularly our absolute insanity on the question of West New Guinea. We seem to be kicking Australian allies in the teeth at every possible opportunity. I certainly wish we had an opportunity for a chat.

This prompts my renewal of our invitation to come down and join our lecture series this year. Providing the Eastern Airlines strike has settled, plane connections are now so good that you could do so with relatively little loss of time. We can pay your expenses and an honorarium of $250 and I can guarantee you that we will provide you a larger and better informed audience than I gather you had in Ames, Iowa this past year. In any event we can work out a topic later, I wanted merely to line you up now for a date which can be the second Tuesday in October, December or February. We are only 1½ hours from Washington and I am sure you can work in some sort of a Washington trip, too. How about it?

RLW:cg

July 25, 1962

Institute of International Studies

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Harvard University Center for
International Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

This letter concerns two items. Number One: We have a very
talented undergraduate who is interested in going on for a Ph.D.
in International Relations. Although he did not have a great
amount of background, he has shown real promise and development
in the last year and a half. He has shown primary interest in
problems of national security and would, I think, find the op-
portunity to work under you most rewarding. He will be receiving
his degree in January. What are the chances for him to be ad-
mitted for study there in January and, more important, since he
is married and has a small child, what would be his chances for
getting some fellowship assistance? If we had a Ph.D. program
I would like very much to keep Mr. Thomas Moseley myself.

Second: It is necessary for us to line up our speaker program
fairly soon. I would like to put you down for December 11th
and, so that the talk would not be a major drain on you, I would
like to suggest as a title, "The United States and Revived Leader-
ship of the West." In this talk you could handle the thesis of
the paramount importance of NATO and Western Civilization in the
ultimate security consideration of the United States. Plane and
train schedules are sufficiently convenient that I am sure it
would not necessitate your being away from Harvard too long.
Other speakers for our series this coming year include Ken Thomp-
son and Allen Dulles, and your presence would make this the fin-
est lecture program we have had to date.

How about being a real fine fellow and sending me off a glossy
print and biographical sketch so that I can get to work on our
brochure announcement? In your letter you wanted to write me in
the fall about a possible date. I can probably hang on until

August 6, 1962

Mr. Richard L. Walker
Director, Institute of International Studies
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina

Dear Dick:

Thank you for your letter of July 25th. To answer your second question first, it is hard for me to make a decision on a date this early. I will do my best to let you know within two weeks, but in the meantime I would appreciate it if you could tell me whether December 4th would be a possibility for you. It might be better for me.

With respect to Mr. Moseley, I would suggest that he apply as soon as possible for admittance to the Graduate School of Public Administration or the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in February. I myself do not have any fellowship funds at my disposal, but either of these graduate schools can provide information directly to him about their grants. Once he has been admitted, I would be glad to talk to him about directing his Ph. D. thesis or the like. It might work out also that he would be interested in taking my graduate course in Defense Studies.

Kind regards as always.

August 28, 1962

Mr. Richard Walker
Institute of International Studies
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina

Dear Dick:

This is absolutely the last time I will
write you about the date of my visit to the University
of South Carolina. It occurred to me that I might
have some difficulty getting back to Cambridge for
a Wednesday Seminar I give if I lectured in Columbia
on a Tuesday. For this reason, and also because
the 3rd is a better date for me than the 4th, I
wonder whether it might be possible for me to switch
to the 3rd. Could you let me know soon?

Let me assure you that I will do it on
the 4th if the 3rd is not good for you.

Kind regards, and apologies for further
confusing the situation.

30 August 1962

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

You charming fellow! Don't worry about bothering me. I'm enjoying the exchange, but I must admit I'll enjoy it much more when we get you here--and we do want to keep you here long enough for an adequate sharing of ideas.

First, we have found that for the convenience of many townsfolk who like to come to our lecture series, a Tuesday evening is by all odds preferable. Second, if Eastern Air Lines is running again, and it probably will be running by December, you'll be able to leave here about 7:30 AM and be in Boston about noon. If your seminar is in the afternoon, there shouldn't be much difficulty about meeting it. The morning connections from here to New York and Boston are excellent. If necessary, I can even drive you to Charlotte. Third, if there's real strain and drain about the fourth, we'll shift the date because I am determined to have some of the people down here hear you. But, fourth, unless I hear from you to the contrary, I'll assume that we're going to stick with the 4th.

Incidentally, my wife and I hope that you'll make it down here the afternoon or evening of the 3rd. She's a pretty good Chinese cook, and I am most anxious to have you see something of our fair city.

I may see you at the APSA meetings if you are there.

October 5, 1962

Dear Dick:

Many thanks for your
letter of September 27th. I have checked carefully
into both my own schedule and also the airline
guide, and I am afraid the 4th of December is
really not a possibility at all for me. I wanted
to let you know this now, rather than defer
a decision as you suggested until later on, when
things may be even more difficult for you. I
would be glad to come on the 3rd, however, and
hope that can be arranged.

I look forward to hearing
from you, and would like to apologize for the
inconvenience I am causing.

Kindest regards.

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November 14, 1962

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Associate Director
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

Just a brief note to tell you how much we are looking
forward to your visit.

The note is prompted by the fact that the guy we got
to fill in for Ken Thompson last night laid an egg. I am hoping
that we can get you (and I feel we can) at a moment when you are
somewhat perturbed about the conduct of U.S. affairs. I under-
stand from numerous people who heard you that your kick-off speech
at the National War College Seminar last summer was magnificent.

You will be talking to an audience composed of almost 50%
townspeople as well as some dragooned students and they will be
anxious for a few good clear points with a message behind them.
Last night's speaker did not even convince a few people that ob-
fusection was tantamount to profundity.

I do hope you will look into the various modes of trans-
portation that will enable you to get here at least in time to
have lunch with us on Monday and meet with a couple groups of stu-
dents Monday afternoon. Frankly, if you are going to be in Wash-
ington or if it is more convenient, my wife Ceny and I would just
as soon have you come Sunday night so that we could have a full
day for sharing ideas and outlooks on Monday. There is a non-stop
plane to Columbia in the mornings leaving Dulles International
Airport in Washington at 9:10 A.M. and arriving here at 11:04.
That same plane departs from Newark at 8:00 A.M. Evening con-
nections can be made with a plane departing from Charlotte at
9:50 P.M. and arriving here at 10:20. In case you are sufficiently
nostalgic for the old days, you might even want to take the Augusta
Special via the Southern Railway or the Palmland via the Seaboard,

December 4, 1962

Dear Henry:

Just a brief note to say thanks again for your fine contri-
bution to our program here. I appreciated especially your wil-
lingness (though you had little choice) to spend so much time
with our students and colleagues in discussion last evening
following the lecture. All were stimulated by your ideas and
grateful for the opportunity to hear your observations on cur-
rent problems.

An essential part of our mission here in South Carolina is
to call attention to the overwhelming seriousness of the prob-
lems which we face nationally as well as in terms of Western
civilization itself. On this score your contribution last night
was absolutely first rate. I know from my own experience that
one does not have to be told whether he has communicated after
he has looked out over an audience for a fifty-minute period.
It should have been obvious to you that you had the interest
and appreciation of the group which assembled last night.

Ceny was especially happy to meet you because she has heard
me speak about you and your work. We'll hope that we can per-
suade you to bring your wife the next time you come.

RLW:vpd

January 28, 1963

Dear Henry:

Just a brief note on two subjects: first, I want to tell you how very much I admired your contributions at the Washington meetings. You were especially eloquent, indeed brilliant, in stressing the psychological problems which are facing our country in terms of long-range meeting of the threat. Your contributions added real stimulus at points when the meeting might otherwise have been a bit dull.

Second, I would appreciate any possible intercession on
your part for one of our students who is applying for admis-
sion and assistance at Harvard. Mr. Thomas J. Moseley, Jr.
is not absolutely brilliant, but he will more than hold his own
with fellow graduate students at Harvard and, what's more, I
suspect he will be better prepared. Any assistance you can
give to him will be appreciated by me.

I look forward with anticipation to our next get-together.

RLW:vpd

2 March 1963

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Associate Director
Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

Greetings from the sunny south where we are still basking
in the sunlight of intellectual and personal warmth which
you shed while here.

This letter will introduce Professor W. A. (Mick) Townsley
of the University of Tasmania, whom I had the pleasure of
meeting there and who is visiting here in the United States
under a Carnegie Commonwealth Studies grant. I am sure
that you would enjoy spending some time with him and that
your students would probably benefit from an opportunity
to share ideas with him--ours did. Anything you can do to
give him some guidance there will be deeply appreciated by me.

Ceny joins in good wishes,

Incidentally, he will be there sometime about April 5-8, and
will be bringing the original of this letter with him.

will be printing the original of this letter with him.
Incidentally, he will be there sometime about April 2-8, and

Cordially,

Ceny Jolyn in good wishes,

Give him some guidance there will be deeply appreciated by me.
to share ideas with him--ome did. Anything you can do to
your students would properly benefit from an opportunity
that you would enjoy spending some time with him and that
under a Carnegie Commonwealth Studies grant. I am sure
meeting there and who is visiting here in the United States
of the University of Tasmania, whom I had the pleasure of
This letter will introduce Professor W. A. (Mick) Townley
you asked while here.

in the sunlight of intellectual and personal warmth which
greetings from the amny south where we are still peaking

Dear Henry:

Cambridge 38, Massachusetts
Divinity Avenue
Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Associate Director
Professor Henry A. Klaasen

2 March 1963

[LC]

1516 Brennan Road
Columbia, South Carolina

March 15, 1963

Dear Henry:

Enough has now happened that with the provisos and understandings implicit in your last chapter of Necessity for Choice, I would like to offer my services and assistance to the camp of Nelson for the next election. I believe it is an urgent matter that we change the direction of our current policies, and I cannot see where this is possible under the current leadership.

Although a year ago I did not see how anyone could unseat Kennedy, I now believe it is possible. But this will require the most cold-blooded political warfare of the type which Jack has himself shown an ability to conduct, and it will have to take advantage of the growing distrust among the press and some intellectuals for the high-handed managing of the news. Some projects such as the following will have to be undertaken, and they should be started now, not in the last hectic months of the campaign:

1. A television program or series which makes very clear the arbitrary nature of the new royalty, new court, and the sycophancy surrounding it, drawing parallels with the very undemocratic court traditions, which led to the foundation of the United States. The major theme must be subtle and simply raise the question of whether the United States stands to lose its traditions of the equality of men.

2. A tough look, by contracted book and television, at our foreign policies with the stress that there are many parallels to the arbitrary manner in which FDR handled them from the "Map Room" during World War II. The Department of State is being ignored today in much the same manner it was at the time of Yalta when the President did not even have time to consult the briefing book prepared by the Department of State, and the Secretary of State himself did not know of the existence of the "Map Room."

3. Some accumulation at a clearing house of all the examples of the abuse of authority by indirection which threatens our American democracy--the editor whose income tax returns are audited again and again until he gets the

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

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March 15, 1963

word and starts to praise the New Frontier, or as
in the case of our local paper, the defense
representative stating that Fort Jackson cannot be
a permanent post as long as the paper attacks
policies of the New Frontier. As Burt Marshall has
pointed out, this is the manner in which a Hitler
intimidated people. In our political warfare
preparations we should not hesitate to sow such
seeds of doubt. Frankly, my doubts are serious
indeed!

Unless we are willing to make such plans and make them seriously--
at this time, then Jack will continue to consolidate his political
power to the extent that no one will be able to unseat him. My
services are offered. Should I address a letter to Nelson
directly?

Ceny joins in cordial greetings to you.

RLW:cg

Enclosures

12-A

THE STATE—Columbia, S. C., Thursday, March 14, 1963

Dateline:
The World

INTERNATIONAL

**ATTACKS AGAINST NOMADS:** The government of Iran has ordered air and ground attacks against nomads of South Iran warring against the shah's land reform program. The military governor of southwestern Fars Province predicted resistance would be snuffed out and the agitators hanged within 24 hours.

Targets of the offensive are members of the Ghasghahel tribe, composed of about 200,000 cattle breeders who live in black woolen tents. U.S. supplied planes are expected to be used in the bombings.

**ECONOMIC COUNCIL:** The Kremlin announces creation of a Supreme National Economic Council with Premier Khrushchev as its chief. "This will be the supreme state agency for the management of industry and construction," the Soviet news agency, Tass, reported.

Establishment of the council caps a Khrushchev program for sweeping reorganization of agricultural and industrial management approved by the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist party last November. The effect is to swing still further from Khrushchev's 1957 experiment with a decentralized system of scattered regional economic councils, a system that failed to live up to expectations in curing Soviet farm and industrial ills.

NATIONAL

**SETBACK FOR BILLY SOL:** Bankrupt promoter Billy Sol Estes received four straight setbacks Wednesday in El Paso, Tex., after lawyers selected a jury to try him on federal mail fraud and conspiracy charges. In addition, Estes faced the prospect of hearing three former business associates testify against him.

Four defense motions for Estes were denied: to delay the trial six months or longer; to move the trial to San Antonio; to bar the testimony of Estes' three business associates unless conspiracy is proven; and to oust an FBI agent from the courtroom while testimony is taken.

**AFTER THE STORM:** Driven from their homes by devastating floods in five states, thousands of families prepared Wednesday to return as massive cleanup operations got underway. Yet the worst appeared to come for many sections still in the path of rivers and streams run wild.

WASHINGTON

**STATE DEPARTMENT SHIFTS:** Top-level shifts in the State Department will send Undersecretary George C. McGhee to Germany as ambassador and make Roger Hilsman Jr., assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs. McGhee will replace Walter C. Dowling, probably in August or September.

Dowling, who will take another important assignment, is now recuperating from surgery in a New York hospital. He will return to Germany.

Hilsman, 43, is now director of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He is a guerrilla war expert and served in Burma and China during World War II.

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March 20, 1963

Mr. Richard Walker
1516 Brennan Road
Columbia, South Carolina

Dear Dick:

Thank you for your letter of March 15th. It is good to know that you are willing to help us. I do not think that it will be necessary for you to write to Nelson directly. Just let's make sure you and I stay in touch.

I find every one of your three points fascinating. Could you give me a little more information about your third point, and also a little more detail on how you visualize going ahead with points one and two?

For reasons which I do not want to go into now, it would be better if you would send me all material dealing with this subject by registered mail.

Kind regards.

Henry A. Kieiser

Sincerely yours,

Kind regards.

registered mail.
me all material dealing with this subject by
into now, it would be better if you would send
for reasons which I do not want to go

ahead with points one and two?
a little more detail on how you visualize going
information about your third point, and also
fascinating. Could you give me a little more
I find every one of your three points

make sure you and I stay in touch.
you to write to Melton directly. Just let's a
na. I do not think that it will be necessary for
It is good to know that you are willing to help
Thank you for your letter of March 12th.

Dear Dick:
Columbia, South Carolina
1216 Brennan Road
Mr. Richard Walker

March 20, 1963

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT

LITTAUER CENTER M-22
CAMBRIDGE 38, MASSACHUSETTS

March 21, 1963

Professor Henry Kissinger
6 Divinity Avenue

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

On February 11 you wrote to Mr. McCloskey inquiring about the fate of Mr. Thomas J. Moseley who is applying for graduate school here.

Unfortunately, Mr. Moseley was not accepted. I think he probably didn't measure up to the competition.

I don't know if this information is confidential -- most students are notified on April 1 (except those not applying for scholarships). However, it is so close to that date that it probably wouldn't make any difference if you went ahead and told Mr. Walker.