## National Executive Conferences in 1973...

All seminars—both topics and speakers— are chosen for their topicality and current importance to businessmen. Speakers are chosen to guarantee a balance of viewpoint and representation. And in all cases, speakers are invited as the leading authorities in their field, whether they represent the Administration, legislative branch, or the private sector.

### May: The Trade Bill

Rep. Wilbur Mills, Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee

Deane Hinton, Deputy Director, White House Council on International Economic Policy

Robert Best, professional staff, Senate Finance Committee

### June: The Future of the Securities Industry

Senator Harrison Williams, Chairman, Senate Committee on Securities

Paul Kolton, Chairman, American Stock Exchange
John Lifton, Associate Director, Market Regulation, SEC

### July: The Energy Crisis

Senator Henry Jackson, Chairman, Senate Interior Committee

Stephen Wakefield, Assistant Secretary of Interior for Energy and Minerals

Lee White, former Chairman, Federal Power Commission

### August: Consumerism

Ralph Nader

Michael Pertschuk, Chief Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee

Joan Z. Bernstein, Acting Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, FTC

### September: Phase IV: Impact and Meaning

John Dunlop, Director, Cost of Living Council

Rep. Henry Reuss, Joint Economic Committee

Nathaniel Goldfinger, Director of Research, AFL-CIO

### October: The Economic Outlook for 1974

Senator William Proxmire, Joint Economic Committee
Walter Heller, former Chairman, White House Council of Economic Advisers

Pierre Rinfret, unofficial Presidential Economic Adviser

### November: Environmentalism and Business

John Quarles, Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency

Senator Edmond Muskie, Chairman, Senate Committee on Air and Water Resources

### December: Energy Crisis II

Rogers Morton, Secretary of the Interior

Senator James Abourezk, Senate Interior Committee

Frank N. Ikard, President, American Petroleum Institute

Lee White, Chairman, Energy Task Force, Consumer Federation of America

Prof. F. Gerard Adams, Wharton School of Economics

# The National Executive Conference of Washington (w)

## What and Why?

The National Executive Conference of Washington conducts private monthly seminars in Washington. Here businessmen meet face-to-face with authoritative governmental and legislative leaders to acquire valuable information necessary for future corporate planning.

The National Executive Conference selects speakers who are not normally accessible to the majority of American businessmen. These seminars, therefore, provide a unique forum for direct questions and answers between business executives and those whose decisions or comments affect their businesses.

You or your assigned representatives have the opportunity to discuss Administration actions and Congressional legislation—even specific sections of pending bills. You will talk with Cabinet Members, White House officials, Congressional Committee Chairmen and others who are responsible for the future of such legislative or executive action.

Are the seminars timely? Over the past year, Senator Henry Jackson as early as last July provided insight and information concerning the nature of the fall Energy Crisis. In September Dr. John Dunlop speculated as to future plans for wage-price controls. Representative Wilbur Mills shared his views on the priorities of trade legislation—while his committee held hearings and before the final bill was reported. And Secretary Rogers Morton outlined Administration short and long range policies which were being contemplated to combat the winter Energy Crisis.

All seminars are closed to the press. Most of the information discussed is not normally

available through press or other public channels.

### Congressional Participation.
In addition to the opportunity for direct contact with the principal seminar speakers, the National Executive Conference invites to all seminars staff personnel from pertinent Congressional Committees and offices. Businessmen can meet and talk informally with these key Congressional personnel who work with legislation directly related to their businesses.

## Special Requests

### Private Seminars
for your company can be arranged by the National Executive Conference. Corporations who wish to broaden and deepen the knowledge and understanding of their executive staffs may select the time, place, and subject. The National Executive Conference will arrange for authoritative speakers of national importance and assist in planning the seminar agenda.

### Videotape Cassettes
of any seminar can be made available within 72 hours for wider use within your company, or for current and prospective clients.

### Written Seminar Transcripts
are available within 24 hours after each seminar—free to annual members, or at a cost of $20.00 to single seminar participants.

## And who

The four men who developed and direct the National Executive Conference of Washington have extensive experience in both the executive and legislative branches of government, in general political affairs, and as businessmen.

### Robert Lifton
A City College of New York graduate, received his law degree at Yale University. He was founder and Chairman of the Board of Transcontinental Investing Corporation (NYSE) from 1961 to 1971. Since its merger in 1971, he has been a partner in Venture Associates, New York City. Lifton is on the faculty of Columbia Law School and will join the Yale University law faculty in the Spring of 1974. He is also a writer and lecturer on legal business subjects.

### Frank Mankiewicz
graduated from UCLA, and later earned his law degree at the University of California at Berkeley. He practiced law in California until 1961. In 1966 he went to work for Senator Robert F. Kennedy as Press Secretary. After Kennedy's assassination, and through 1971, Mankiewicz wrote a syndicated newspaper column, was a television commentator, and lectured throughout the country. In 1972 he served as National Director of the 1972 McGovern for President campaign.

### Ted Van Dyk
worked as a journalist and in advertising before coming to Washington in 1962 to serve as public affairs representative for the European Common Market. From 1964 to 1968, he served as chief policy adviser to Senator and Vice President Hubert Humphrey. After a year at Columbia University as Vice President for Public Affairs, Van Dyk returned to Washington in 1969 and founded his own consulting company of which he is currently President.

### Kirby Jones
a University of North Carolina graduate, served for several years in the Peace Corps, both in Latin America and in the Washington headquarters. In 1968 he served on Senator Robert Kennedy's Presidential campaign staff and in 1969 joined Ted Van Dyk's consulting firm in Washington. In 1972 he became Press Secretary in Senator McGovern's Presidential campaign. He currently is Executive Director of the National Executive Conference and President of a television production company.

FRANK MANKIEWICZ

SUITE 912
1156 15TH STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005

May 16, 1974

The Honorable Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520

Dear Mr. Henry Kissinger:

Sorry to miss our proposed meeting today, partly because I have further information about my upcoming Caribbean trip, but mainly because today is my 50th birthday, and I needed some reassurance which I think (from all appearances) you could have given me.

We look forward to your seminar appearance with all the Fortune 500 businessmen on the 29th, and shortly after that I hope we can set up a conversation about my interview with Castro, now scheduled for June 28. If I am caught on my return at Customs with boxes of cigars, I am fully prepared to say they are for you.

Mankiewicz, Frank 5/16/74

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Washington, D.C. 20520

April 9, 1974

HAK:

Subject: Request From Frank Mankiewicz for Your Appearance at the National Executive Seminar

I understand that you have told Mankiewicz you would try to appear at the Executive Seminar during May. Mankiewicz would now like to confirm your agreement and perhaps set a date.

Date: Any day in May (A Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday is best.)

Time: Event would last from 12:30 to 2:00. You could arrive as late as 1:00.

Location: A large downtown hotel

Audience Size and Composition: 150 chief corporate officers (Fortune 500 types)

Format: 15 minute remarks; 45 minute Qs and As (or whatever you would like to do)

Topic: Whatever you wish. Mankiewicz suggestion: Foreign Policy and American Business

Recommendation:

That you confirm your willingness to do this and have me get back to Mankiewicz with a suitable May date.

Approve _________

Disapprove _________

1156 15th Street NW
Washington DC 20005

202 296 0676

Robert K. Lifton
Frank Mankiewicz
Ted Van Dyk

Kirby Jones
Executive Director

1974 SEMINAR SERIES

February 7
**Multinationals: Doing Business Overseas**

- Senator Charles Percy, Senate Committee on Multinationals

- Ambassador William Eberle, President Nixon's Trade Negotiator

- Guy Vanhaeverbeke, European Communities' Delegation to U.S.

- Richard Gilmore, Staff Director, Senate Committee on Multinationals

February 28
**New 1974 Tax Legislation**

- Representative Al Ullman, Acting Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee

- Senator Walter Mondale, Senate Finance Committee

- Mortimer Caplin, former Commissioner of IRS

- Joseph Pechman, Senior Economist, The Brookings Institution

March 27
**The Middle East Crisis: Effect on International Investments, Economies, and Monetary Policy**

- Honorable George Shultz, Secretary of the Treasury

- Senator Hubert Humphrey, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

- H. Johannes Witteveen, Director, International Monetary Fund

April 30
**New Health Insurance Plans: Implications for Business**

- Senator Edward Kennedy, Chairman, Senate Subcommittee on Health

- Dr. Charles C. Edwards, HEW Assistant Secretary for Health

- A leading Health Economist

The Detroit News

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THE HOME NEWSPAPER

DETROIT, MICHIGAN 48231

Feb.4

Dear Henry Kissinger:

I write a daily column for the Detroit News, copy enclosed,
on the "lighter side of life" so to speak.

I have a hunch you have a great sense of humor and will
accept the subject matter herein in that vein.

As they say at the local health club, the ball is in your
court, a good swing or two from you would be welcomed.

Continued success and good health

WASHINGTON

NEW YORK

CHICAGO

SAN FRANCISCO

LANSING

A vital question: Does Henry kiss on first date?

I see "KISS" is in the papers again with his dating game.

The reference is to Henry J. KISSinger, President Nixon's foreign affairs adviser, and his recent dates with Charlotte Ford.

By the way, I refer to him as KISS only in keeping with the Washington tradition of abbreviations.

It seems to be that KISS, described by the Washington press ladies as a dashing, swinging bachelor, is a "date and tell statesman."

Otherwise how can you explain the detailed accounts of the glamorous dolls he takes to dinner or dancing. You'd think a fellow who can hold secret meetings in Paris for months could have a date without the world knowing about it.

If he doesn't tell, then there's one of those White House "leaks" in the system somewhere. And the word is getting around. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if President Nixon goes on national TV to tell us all about it.

Personally, I couldn't care less about the romantic life of KISS. But, since the reports persist, I have become curious. It is possible you have, too.

### VERY INTERESTING?

Does he kiss his dates on the first evening out or does he wait for the second date or whatever?

One Washington report said that Charlotte likes KISS. I could ask her because I danced with her, once. (Before she met that older Greek.)

Charlotte is a good dancer and I presume a good kisser. But I'm too much of a gentleman to ask her if KISS tried to kiss her.

So I have written to about him of his M.O. (method of operation.)

By
CHARLEY
MANOS

MANOS

I'll let you know what KISS says, if anything.

### WELL-KEPT SECRET

Clarence Carter, Detroit auto dealer and president of the Booker T. Washington Business Men's Association, did not hesitate in his reply.

Newsaster Joe Weaver had asked him:

"What is the secret of success?"

Carter produced a little box similar to a country school pencil box and gave it to Weaver during an interview on WJBK-TV, the other day.

"My mother-in-law gave this to me," said Carter. He slid the box open to reveal the secret.

The word WORK was printed in big letters therein.

### TEEN SCENE QUEEN

Kristine Krupka, 19, is the new Miss Detroit Bank & Trust, and she's stacked as neat as one of their pillars of $100 bills.

Kris lives on Detroit's northwest side. She's a brunet with a shag haircut (my style.)

"I love shag haircuts because they make a girl look like a lioness," said this graduate of Our Lady of Mercy High, Farmington.

The lioness connection goes back to her duties as a receptionist for a veterinary hospital. She got to help bottle-feed an eight-week-old lion cub who had stopped in for a bit while enroute to the Detroit Zoo. (Groovy girl.)

### POTLUCK ANYONE?

How'd you like to be in charge of a potluck dinner for some 6,400 persons? That's the king-size headache for Parke-Davis' Jim Dingemanse. He's chairman of the Boy Scout Leaders Recognition Dinner tomorrow in Cobo Hall.

Dingemanse got some top assistance from Mrs. William Klingbeil, head of the hostess squad.

"She sent out suggested menus to keep from having all baked goods on one table," Dingemanse said.

### CHUCKLES??

In case you're wondering about the picture here today, it's a preview showing of the topless formal outfit I won't wear at the Detroit Metropolitan Phantom Opera happening that won't occur on Feb. 17.

Mrs. John Nicholas, coordinator of the kooky bit of fund-

raising to help improve conditions at the Wayne County Jail, promises not to wear a bikini and will be happy not to go with me. Tickets can really be purchased from Grinnell's or Hudson's.

Inside twist to an old-joke: Who was that orangutan I saw you with on TV the other night? That was no orangutan; that was Sonny Eliot. (Footnote: Sonny interviewed a Shrine Circus king-size monkey on his TV show who claimed his name was Charley Manos.)

### CAPSULES

Darn it: If the groundhog, our underground weatherman, had not been chicken and crawled back into his hole, he might have seen the year's first robin. The early bird was perched on the pear tree of Ernest Schunphase, of Detroit's Alcyon street. It's not easy for Steve Danosi to make points with his father, Istvan Danosi, Dad's coach of Wayne State's fencing team. Steve's on the squad.

Circuit Judge Harry J. Dingeman Jr., turns 14 on Feb. 29. A leap year baby, Dingeman will actually be 46. (Either count judge, happy birthday.)

### MISERY MAKERS

Joyia Sands, kindergarten teacher at the Mason School, Grosse Pointe Woods, learned about "misery" from this year's crop of pupils. But in this amusing way — Misery is:

Spilling milk in your newly washed hair.
Losing your glasses and you can't see to find them.

Breaking your piggy bank and finding no money.

(Sorry kids but misery can also mean running out of space.)

But thanks.)

Have a nice weekend.

MIKE MANSFIELD
MONTANA

United States Senate
Office of the Majority Leader
Washington, D.C. 20510

October 15, 1973

PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL

Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary
Department of State
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Thursday morning, October 11, 1973, at the invitation of the French Foreign Minister, Michel Jobert, I accepted a breakfast invitation to meet with him at the French Embassy.

Francis R. Valeo, Secretary of the Senate, accompanied me to this meeting and on our return to the Senate he compiled a memorandum of our conversation which I think you might find of interest. You might consider the possibility contained in the footnote.

With best personal wishes, I am

Enclosure

PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL

Breakfast Meeting with the French Foreign Minister Jobert at the
Ambassador's residence at 8:30 a.m. (October 11, 1973).

Present: Foreign Minister Michel Jobert, the French Ambassador Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, two members of his staff, Senator Mansfield and Mr. Valeo.

The Foreign Minister opened the conversation by asking about the Vice Presidential succession. In comment, Senator Mansfield said that the President had met on yesterday with the Republican Leaders of Congress and subsequently with Speaker Albert and himself to discuss the issue. It was the President's intention to act rather promptly to fill the vacancy, the end of this week or next week, and that the President was asking a wide range of leaders for suggestions. The Minister asked whether or not it would be difficult to obtain Congressional concurrence. It was pointed out that that much depended upon his nomination. If someone like Connally of Texas were designated the Congressional consideration would be protracted. If the nominee were Governor Rockefeller, there might also be difficulties. Senator Goldwater had also been mentioned as a possibility. The Senator's recommendations which he had conveyed to the President, at the latter's request, were former Senator Cooper and Mr. Rogers, former Secretary of State, who was an underrated man. The President, Senator Mansfield said, had asked what the possibilities were of getting Mr. Rogers confirmed and had raised a question about Senator Cooper's age. Senator Mansfield had expressed the opinion that Senator Cooper was physically qualified for the position and that Rogers would be confirmed.

Foreign Minister Jobert felt that a prompt resolution of the issue of the Vice Presidential successor was essential for the United States which he did not think could not afford a continuance of so much internal difficulty. Senator Mansfield's view was that the matter would emerge from this and Watergate purified and stronger. In that sense, the situation was tragic but eventually could prove beneficial. He pointed out that, notwithstanding a vacancy in the Vice-Presidency, the line of succession was already established, with Speaker Albert next in line and then Senator Eastland, and so forth.

The Minister asked for Senator Mansfield's reaction to the Middle East war. Senator Mansfield, in reply, reviewed the situation as it appeared from the latest reports. He concluded that it did not appear that it was going to be a quick war. Concurring, the Minister said that neither side, at this moment, was prepared to open talks on a settlement. The prospects rather were for a spread of the war, for example, other Arab combatants', Morocco and Iraq were now becoming involved. It was also noted that the Soviet Union had resumed shipments of military equipment to the Syrians, although not yet to Egypt. Senator Mansfield observed that some small U. S. shipments were probably beginning to go to Israel. The Minister noted that a surprising aspect of the war was that it was being led on the Arab side by moderate political leaders.

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Senator Mansfield said that he hoped that the French would consider playing the role of "honest broker" in the situation which, if unchecked, could develop in a very dangerous fashion. The French view, the Minister said, was in accord with what Senator Mansfield had been saying. In view of the dangerous situation which was developing, he added, it might be that other countries might have to give consideration to "imposing a settlement on the combatants." Insofar as the U. N. Security Council was concerned, he did not see much potential in its usage.

Turning to Cambodia, the Minister asked Senator Mansfield's view on the future of his friend Sihanouk. Senator Mansfield related to him his recent expressions on the matter. He noted that he had stressed many times both to the President and to Mr. Kissinger prior to his confirmation and to the public his belief that Sihanouk was the key person and the only person who could retrieve the situation. Mr. Nixon, he felt, had begun his Administration with the same view having moved promptly to restore diplomatic relations with Sihanouk and having asked Senator Mansfield to undertake a mission of friendship to Cambodia at the time, but then came the aggression in Cambodia in the name of support for our war effort in the Viet Nam war and our too quick move to recognize and come to the aid of the successor government. That government had been overly supported, with a great deal of military and other aid, much of which seemed to be going into private pockets.

In Senator Mansfield's view this course had been tragically in error. Now, we were back confronting the reality that Sihanouk offered, possibly, the only way out. Senator Mansfield mentioned his discussion with French Ambassador Mana'ch and also related the story of his near meeting with Penn Noueth in Peking last year. He expressed the view that Sihanouk had a strong tie with Chou En-lai but that there were indications that the North Vietnamese were giving Sihanouk some difficulty with the flow of military supplies and the solidity of his relationships with the Cambodian resistance forces was not certain. Minister Jobert observed that the Soviet Union had now given recognition to Sihanouk and the Phnom Penh Prime Minister had resigned.

Getting back to Sihanouk, Senator Mansfield said the Prince, in all likelihood, would return to Phnom Penh. How long he could or would stay in power thereafter was another matter. Insofar as he could see, however, Sihanouk was the best and only hope for Cambodia because he was not only one of the ablest political leaders in Southeast Asia but also a total Nationalist whose only concern was the salvation of Cambodia. The Foreign Minister said that Senator Mansfield's views of the matter coincided with those of the French but that he was at a loss to understand whether or not they were shared by the Administration. He commented on a conversation he had had with the American Ambassador in Paris in which the

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Ambassador asked what French policy was with respect to Cambodia, a question which the Minister answered by asking the American Ambassador: "What is your policy with regard to Cambodia?" To which the Ambassador replied "I don't know."

The Minister then raised the question of U. S. force reductions in Europe. There was a general discussion of this issue in which Senator Mansfield emphasized that the North Atlantic Treaty was the most important defense arrangement to which the United States was a part. His efforts to bring about a reduction of forces in Europe, he said, was in no way designed to detract from the Treaty. He pointed out, however, that times had changed and it was necessary to make adjustments accordingly. A much smaller effective fighting force than now stationed would be more preferable to the kind of window-dressing of 300,000 servicemen, plus 200,000 dependents which still remain in Europe. President Eisenhower, had said years ago that a single division would be sufficient in Europe. The Senator noted that the French had withdrawn their NATO forces and made other military deployments as they saw fit. During de Gaulle's time, moreover, they had invited the U. S. to withdraw its NATO contingent from France and this had been done. Unfortunately, the Senator noted, those forces had not returned home but moved to Germany and England. The French Ambassador indicated that it might be that the Germans would make a request similar to that of the French but the Minister expressed doubt on that score. In any event, Senator Mansfield said he felt that the question of negotiating troop reductions by mutual agreement with the Soviet Union was just a "ploy" to delay reductions, to which the French Ambassador replied: "We agree." As he saw it, U. S. forces would be withdrawn when the United States government felt it was to its interests to withdraw them, objections from Europe or negotiations with the Soviet Union notwithstanding.

Insofar as the Soviet forces in Eastern Europe are concerned, the Minister noted the vast number of Russian divisions, Senator Mansfield said that he thought these Soviet troops were much more closely related to the maintenance of Soviet influence in that area than to the NATO confrontation. Here again, the French Minister concurred. He said that Soviet forces were not very conspicuous in Eastern Europe although he had seen some in Bulgaria, in that instance a helicopter unit.

The Foreign Minister said that he had accompanied President Pompidou to Peking and had found it extremely interesting. The people, he found, were well fed, healthy and quite talkative and friendly and much better dressed than in the past, with considerable variety in their clothes. He said that the French always liked to see someone high in the Chinese government who speaks French and, of course, at the present time that was Chou En-lai who had spent time in France. Senator Mansfield remarked that the Chinese evidently have great admiration for Mao. Minister Jobert commented that Mao, in turn, was an admirer of Napoleon and Senator Mansfield said in the same vein, Chou En-lai had been described by President Nixon as the outstanding statesman of our times.

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The breakfast ended at approximately 9:45 a.m. Mr. d'Aboville who was present at the meeting commented as we were leaving, that the talk had been exceptionally useful and it was valuable to have had the opportunity to expose Foreign Minister Jobert to Senator Mansfield who was so extraordinarily alert and articulate. I commented that the Senator is always like that in the early morning, unlike the rest of us.

P.S. Foreign Minister Jobert indicated in general, but not uncertain tones--quite the contrary--that France was prepared to offer its good offices between Sihanouk and the United States and also was prepared to act as the "honest broker" (my term) in the Middle East.

MIKE MANSFIELD
MONTANA

November 8, 1973

His Royal Highness
Samdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk Upayuvareach
Embassy of Cambodia
Peking, People's Republic of China

My dear Prince:

Your cablegram of October 15 has been received with appreciation. This candid statement of your position, as in the case of your earlier communications, is very helpful in clarifying my understanding. I have transmitted your views to the new Secretary of State, Mr. Kissinger, with an expression of my personal hope that your proposals would be given "most immediate and serious consideration."

It was interesting to learn of the role that you envision for Mr. Penh Nouth whose patriotism and exceptional ability have evoked my highest admiration for many years, and also of your intention of limiting your activities largely to foreign affairs. It would be my hope, however, that this limitation would not act to deny to the people of Cambodia the inspiration which has flown from your personal dedication and leadership for so many years.

I apologize for the lateness of the date, but may I now join with your family, your colleagues and the Cambodian people in wishing you as happy a birthday as you can have outside your homeland. May I also express the hope that the year ahead will bring great satisfaction to you and, to Cambodia, a return of peace.

With warm personal regards and high esteem,

P. S. The French Ambassador is, once again, kindly undertaking to see that this letter is delivered to you.