HAK: W:J:ms: 2; 7/70

them soon. HK

I just received the list of people we met. I'll per writing

North Hollywood, California 91604
4054 Radford Avenue
CBS Studio Center
Vice President ✓
Mr. Robert W. Norcott

Henry V. Kissing

Best regards,

who helped to shape such a memorable afternoon.
I took forward to receiving a list of those others we met
your responsibilities to beneficially shepherd us around.
Blessings of world events, and for taking time out from
Again my thanks for the delightful reable from the

at 20 yards. We all learned a great deal while having fun.
Getting their pictures taken, and aspen shooting milk bottles
talking about seeing many of their favorite performers,
kids have managed not to lose to date. They are still
vision aera, whose autographs I am happy to report my
We enjoyed meeting your colleagues and the many tele-
rehearsals.

for us, from lunch all the way through the Merv Griffin
your staff for the imaginative schedule that you arranged
the Lords and Vicki Driscoll join me in thinking you and
at the CBS Studios this past Thursday. Elisabeth, David,
not only for my children, but for all of me youngsters,
Your thoughtfulness resulted in a very exciting experience

Dear Maxx: How sweet!

?Bop

July 13, 1970

KISSING, HENRY V.

May 26, 1970

Letters to the Editors
Life
Time and Life Building
Rockefeller Center
New York, N. Y. 10020

Sirs:

In his article entitled "Set a Date in Vietnam.
Stick to it. Get out." (May 22) Mr. Clark Clifford
very wisely commends us to the well known statement
of George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the
past are condemned to repeat it."

I submit that in trying to extricate us from Vietnam
in an orderly fashion without surrender President
Nixon has done just that -- he has remembered the
past.

He has remembered the writings of Marx, Engels,
Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Kosygin, Mao
Tse-tung and a host of others.

He has remembered the dreary roll call of Communist
aggression in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland,
Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia.
He has remembered the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin
Wall, along with the nearly successful conquest of
Greece which created President Truman's "Marshall
Plan".

He has remembered the huge Communist parties of
France and Italy and the Huks in the Philippines.

He has remembered Cuba and its attempted infiltra-
tions into all of South and Central America with
active Russian encouragement.

He has remembered Russia's massive naval intrusion
into the Mediterranean and her newly gained pre-
eminence in the Arab world.

Letters to the Editors

He has remembered Russia's dominance in India and her
more recent wooing of Pakistan.

He has remembered the confirmation of the "domino"
theory" which has been given us by the progression of
Communist aggression from Vietnam into Laos and Cam-
bodia.

By remembering all of these things he is striving to
prevent us from being condemned to repeat them.

Mr. Clifford is incontrovertibly correct when he
states that: "The enemy is well armed, well equipped
and well trained..." and that: "The factories turning
out guns, rockets, mortars and the materiel of war
are not located in North Vietnam, but in Red China and
the Soviet Union".

Thus Mr. Clifford's reference to "the enemy", his ac-
curate diagnosis of the sources of support and encour-
agement of the enemy and the remembrances of the past
which have just been recounted make it extremely dif-
ficult to understand the major premise on which he
builds his case, namely "...the war in Vietnam is a
local war arising out of the particular political
conditions existing in Southeast Asia. I consider
it delusion to suggest that the war in Vietnam is
part of a worldwide program of Communist aggression."

BHO:bjg