STUDENT UNREST

At the meeting of the Board of Trustees on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro on Monday, May 25, 1970, President William Friday, in his Report to the Trustees, made these comments regarding student unrest. This text is shared with you knowing of your great interest in this issue.

The most pressing and controversial issue of the year has been and continues to be student unrest. This phenomenon, national and pervasive, has caused much distress to all age groups in our society.

The fact that these student demonstrations have continued now for a period of several years is causing public tolerance to wear thin. It is essential, under such circumstances, to provide as much factual information and objective interpretation as is possible, in order to maintain reason and fairness in our evaluation of these events.

It is clear that student activism has objectives that are diverse, ranging from individual campus concerns to matters of major domestic policy and to the conduct of war and foreign relations. It is a continuing phenomenon in which all sections of the nation are involved and virtually all elements of our society are brought under scrutiny.

President Nixon is now giving the matter close attention. On two occasions, in company with seven other University Presidents, I have visited the White House at his invitation. Only last Saturday, one of his aides visited me in Chapel Hill.

I shall continue to respond to Mr. Nixon's request for counsel and assistance. As our President he deserves every assistance we might give in resolving this crisis.

During the last several weeks the campus responses to the military action in Cambodia and the deaths by violence on several campuses of the nation have vastly increased the number of demonstrators. We are no longer talking about a small minority of our young people; literally thousands of North Carolinians have

been involved in the current protests.

There are some few students who would disregard the law, close down institutions, destroy property, and provoke violence and threaten human life. I share in the public indignation generated by overt disregard for the law. The University has both the right and the obligation to protect itself and its members from destructive forces. I have said before and say again that the laws of the state and the regulations of the University devised to deal with such actions will be enforced. We will not compromise with the willfully destructive, and I assure you that the University has cooperated fully with and received full cooperation from all law enforcement agencies of our government.

I should point out that certain constitutional requirements, as interpreted by the federal courts and incorporated into current Trustee regulations, do not permit arbitrary, summary expulsion of students. Such disciplinary proceedings must be attended by the elements of due process, including the specification of charges against a defendant, the right to confront accusers, the right to counsel, and a fair hearing. However, those who would jeopardize the physical integrity of the institution or endanger life will be dealt with promptly.

It is my conviction, based upon extensive knowledge, that only a few deliberately provoke violence on these campuses. So, we must ask ourselves who are these other thousands of young people who have gathered to express themselves in recent weeks on our campuses, and the campuses of Duke, Wake Forest, East Carolina and other institutions? We

should also seek to understand the concerns which, to their credit, they have expressed in a non-violent way.

To my knowledge, the vast majority who have participated in these demonstrations on our campuses and others are our own sons, daughters, nieces and nephews. During all the years before enrolling in the University, these young people have been developing their sense of values, their standards and judgments by what they learned from us as parents in our homes and by what they were taught in our schools and in our churches. It is our task to help each student build on this base, to broaden his knowledge, to deepen his understanding of our society, and to qualify himself for a useful and meaningful life. No institution should seek to impose upon a student any preconceived dogma. However, a university must strive with all its resources to help him in his search to find himself and to identify himself with those great moral and human values that sustain mankind.

Those graduates who will receive their degrees next week have been exposed, throughout their entire collegiate career, to the fact of a continuing undeclared state-of-war. They feel deeply about this involvement. They have seen their elders become involved personally in the great issues of pollution, civil rights, housing, adequate schools, prevention of crime, the problem of drugs, and the availability of jobs. Out of these and other experiences, many students have become committed to building a better world and a world of peace.

It must be acknowledged that the cultural and educational advantages which the students have enjoyed do not

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January 26, 1973

GENERAL

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D.C.

KISSINGER, HARRY A.

Dear Doctor Kissinger:

I am not writing to petition an exclusive interview into how you achieved the cease fire in Viet Nam--I leave such serious matters to Scotty Reston and Bernard Gwertzman. It is your ability to overcome jet-lag or jet-trauma that comes from flying east or west across time zones that intrigues me.

I write the Traveler's World column published in the Sunday Travel Section of The Times, and I suffer acutely from jet-lag as do many of my readers. I have, therefore, followed and reported research into the use of hormones to speed or slacken the human circadian cycle in jet travelers.

You must know something the rest of us tourists don't because you can get off the plane in Paris bright-eyed and ready to work, while we can barely stagger to our expensive hotel bedrooms and go to sleep. It must be a secret remedy because the State Department guys have to have a day's rest before they can negotiate.

Can I persuade you to share your secret weapon against jet lag with my readers who will be everlastingly grateful? Fifteen minutes of your time any time you can spare them should do it.

I am not trying to butter you up but I cannot close without commending you for your televised press conference. It was a great job, lucid and most convincing.

Office phone: 212
556-1609.

Home phone (where I do most my work): 516 621-3253

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KISSINGER, HENRY A.

K. HEIDELBERG Cambridge, Ma.

FRIEDRICH-EBERT-ANLAGE 6-10
TELEFON 27091

Oct. 13, 1969

Dr. Henry Kissinger
White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Henry:

Ever since I came back the end of September I have
been meaning to write you. There are several things, more or less
personal & professional that I have been wanting to discuss with
you, if your terribly busy schedule would permit it. If I were to
come to Washington would this be possible? An IBA Round Table will
take me to Rio next week, but after that I should like to try.

I guess that you have been as unhappy about what went on
at Harvard last week as I have been. I was the only man who spoke
against that outrageous resolution against the government which was
quite well reported in the Times. It was a disheartening experience;
because none of the men who had encouraged me to take the floor rose
to support our position. In fact this resolution on one of the most
difficult issues of our foreign policy was adopted by this collection
of scholars and scientists without any discussion of the objective
issues involved. The moralizing statements of the Biochemists were
allowed to dominate the scene. My old skepticism about the workings
of democracy in foreign policy was strongly revived.

Do let me hear from you, if you can.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY

C. J. FRIEDRICH
Eaton Professor of the
Science of Government

M-31 LITTAUER CENTER
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02138

December 22, 1970

PERSONAL

The Honorable
Henry A. Kissinger
Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
The White House Office
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20500

Dear Henry:

It was good of you to urge me to pay you a visit
before leaving for Europe early in January. I am writing
you today to suggest January 6th or 7th or maybe the 8th.
If I do not hear from you I will call you on the 4th to find
out.

Sincerely,

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Paris le, France
236-541 rue St. -Honore
Hotel de France et Choiseu
Professor Carl J. Friedrich

Henry V. Kissinget

Warm regards,

Get back.
be sure to get in touch with me when you
profitable etay in France and that you will
I hope you are having an enjoyable and

seeing you before you left.
therefore comply sorry to have missed
will be gone for due a stretch and am
Having received it, I now realize that you
Many thanks for your letter of January 7.

Dear Carl:

JAN 80 1971

KIRRINGER, HENRY A. / E*

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

C. J. FRIEDRICH

January 7, 1971

PERSONAL

Dear Henry:

I am very disappointed that our plans for this week did not work out, but of course understand. I am particularly sorry because I had two matters on my mind. One was to tell you about the Presidential Vote for Puerto Rico issue. I am at present acting as a consultant to the Ad Hoc Advisory Group that has been set up by President Nixon and Governor Ferre. The issue may become troublesome and if you want my help do let me know and I will try my best. The other matter was a very interesting confidential report from my brother Otto on his visit to Moscow at their invitation. I believe it would be of considerable importance to you and if you think so perhaps you could ask him for a copy. His address is: Herrn Dr. Otto A. Friedrich, Anton Fahneweg 8, 4 Düsseldorf 1, Fed. Rep. of Germany.

It would have been nice to see you. I so very much appreciated your coming up for the dinner December 16th. May I suggest that you get in touch with me after June 10th, if your time permits, to suggest some get-together. My telephone number in the country is (603) 487-2652. If you would want to reach me in Europe, we will be at the Hôtel de France et Choiseul, 239-241 rue St.-Honoré, Paris 1e. Do be sure to let me know if your work should take you to Paris.

KISSINGER, HENRY A. 7/7

AUG 2 1971

Dear Carl:

Many thanks for your note of last month and
for letting me know, as I asked you to, when
you would be coming to Washington. I have
delayed writing to set up an appointment un-
til I had an idea of what the President's plans
will be for the remainder of the summer.

It now appears that he will be leaving Wash-
ington the middle of August for San Clemente
and not returning until after the first week in
September. As I will be going with him, the
possibility of seeing you here on August 19
is slim.

I would like to see you. Please stay in touch,
and let me know when you are again planning
to come to Washington.

Dr. C. J. Friedrich
14 Hawthorne Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts
02138

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03138
Cambridge, Massachusetts
14 Hawthorne Street
Dr. C. I. Friedrich

Henry V. Kiebler

Warm regards,

to come to Washington.
and let me know when you arestein binning
I would like to see you. Please stay in touch.
I am sorry to see you not here on August 19.
I will be going with him, the
September. As I will be going with him, the
and not returning until after the first week in
ington the middle of August for San Clemente
It now appears that he will be leaving Waeh-
will be for the remainder of the summer.
til I had abided of what the President's plane
delayed writing to set up an appointment un-
you would be coming to Washington. I have
tor letting me know, as I asked you to, when
Many thanks for your note of last month and

Dear Carl:

AUG 5 1971

KISSINGER, HENRY V.

AN ENGLISH REPRINT FROM
THE NORWEGIAN WEEKLY

PUBLISHER AND EDITOR
TRYGVE J. B. HOFF. PH. D.
OSLO - NORWAY

"THE FARING MAN"

This article appeared
in "Farmand" Weekly no. 43,
October 25th 1969.

VIET NAM - THE WAY OUT

The recent nationwide demonstration in Amerika to protest the Viet Nam war was a clear expression of public feeling. But it cannot be construed as a clear policy.

A few politicians have made demagogic attempts to cash in on the demonstration. One of them is Senator Edward Kennedy, who is now pressing for unilateral and complete withdrawal of the American troops still in Viet Nam - in other words, for surrender. But the real veterans of opposition to the United States' original Viet Nam policy - men like Senators William Fulbright and Mike Mansfield - have disassociated themselves from Kennedy's exhortations by attesting to their confidence in the Nixon line.

Rightly so, as Nixon's policy represents the only possible way out of the present quandary, once it is acknowledged that the conflict cannot be resolved by military means. A scaling down of U.S. forces in Viet Nam is already in progress, concurrently with attempts to build up the Vietnamese army in South Viet Nam, to enable it to take over as the Americans withdraw. This policy, known as "Vietnamisation", assumes that the conflict will now become the country's own affair and as such will have to be settled by the Vietnamese themselves.

Moratorium Day in America was a unique occasion, first and foremost as a manifestation of the democracy and desire for peace that characterise this nation, a nation which Left-wing radicals delight in referring to as "aggressive" and "imperialist". But there is a very real danger that the tremendous political pressure exerted by such a demonstration of public opinion in a democracy like America will tempt the country's leaders to embark upon an imprudent policy.

For what will be consequences if America suddenly pulls all her forces out of Viet Nam and lays South Viet Nam wide open to Communist massacre?

The nonsense talked about the United States' reasons for being in Viet Nam is sickening - that they are

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there to acquire power, or minerals, or strategic
advantages. The truth is that America's motive in
committing herself in Viet Nam is the same as that for
remaining in Germany and Korea: to reunite the country
on the basis of free elections.

Free elections are anathema to the Socialist
dictatorships of the world, for the simple reason that
such elections are incompatible with Socialism - in other
words, incompatible with the regime in Hanoi.

The consequence of a precipitate withdrawal
from Viet Nam will inevitably be renunciation by the
United States of its policy of commitment in the world
at large and a reversion to some form of isolationism.

In the first place, of course, isolationism
will not spell security for the United States; that is a
fact, and there is no getting away from it. But millions
of Americans may feel that it will - and this feeling is
played upon and encouraged by certain demagogic politicians.

Antoher consequence of an isolationist policy
may be American withdrawal from Europe, the Middle East,
And Asia. The balance of power will be destroyed, and
countries in these areas will be exposed to threats and
pressure from the great powers, and possibly even to
invasion. Tunisia's President Bourguiba has openly
declared that an American defeat in Viet Nam will have
disastrous consequences for the third world.

President Nixon's policy deserves our -
Norway's - unequivocal and wholehearted support. If it
fails, and America chooses isolationism, we run the risk
of having to accept the Kremlin as a member of Norway's
coalition government - just as today the Kremlin is a
partner in the government of Finland.

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KISSINGER, HENRY A. /F* [Y]

SEP 3 1971

Dear Ed:

Just a short note to tell you how good it was
to see you again. My children and I thorough-
ly enjoyed our day looking around Hollywood,
and the "Laugh-In" show was a special treat.
It is obvious that the cast and crew have as
much fun as the audience. We certainly had
a good time.

Please stay in touch and let me know if you
are planning to be in the vicinity of Washing-
ton. I would be pleased to see you there.

Mr. Ed Friendly
"Laugh-In"
NBC Studios
300 West Alemeida
Burbank, California

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