HENRY A. KISSINGER

September 29, 1995

Dear Cokie:

I am delighted that you have agreed to join in an informal
discussion of "Presidential Politics and the U.S. Economy" at a
meeting of the CSIS International Councillors here in Washington
at the Madison Hotel on Friday, December 8.

This group of international business leaders, which I have
chaired at CSIS for over 15 years, meets twice a year for off-the-
record strategic assessments of international developments. I take
the liberty of enclosing a list of the group's members and a
preliminary agenda.

It would be great if you could meet with the Councillors
from 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m., allowing time for a lively discussion
following your presentations.

Enclosures

Mrs. Cokie Roberts
Correspondent
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Nelson. A Child of the Neighborhood.

A WVOX Editorial of the Air
broadcast January 27, 1979

by William O'Shaughnessy, President and Editorial Director

The phone rang after midnight. Joseph Wood Canzeri, president of the Greenrock Company, which runs the Rockefeller estates, was calling from Pocantico in the hills above Tarrytown. "Billy ... Nelson died last night."

It is bad timing. Saturday is a day for jeans and chores around the house, for errands, trips to the dry cleaner, the greengrocer and shopping at the A & P. It is not the sort of day I feel like getting on the radio to announce that Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller died. He deserves better than our Saturday edition.

But last night Nelson Rockefeller, a former member of the Westchester County Board of Health, collapsed at his office in New York. He was one of the neighbors' children. And all night long and into these early morning hours the newspapers and the radio were preparing bulletins and obituaries to tell you this fabulous and zestful man's heart had stopped on him. In cold, clinical, medical language he had a "massive" heart attack. It would have to be a slammer to take out this particular 70-year old man.

This weekend, there will be a lot written and broadcast in the national media about Nelson Rockefeller. And if you want an objective, arms-length report, you'd better tune elsewhere, For you'll not get an unbiased version here at his hometown radio station. Or from me. We were with him at countless political dinners, dedications, functions, "events" as they called them ... and we rode with him over the years in airplanes and helicopters and even in golf carts.

It started with Louis Lefkowitz and Jack Gilhooley down at Ratner's on Delancey Street in New York City. And it was outside this famous, old Jewish delicatessen in a Puerto Rican neighborhood where I first discovered the Great Squire of Pocantico Hills. As the old men from the neighborhood looked on - this patrician, an "aristocrat" from Westchester, plowed into the crowd of Hispanic faces yelling at him: "Senor Rocky!"

For over ten years we followed Nelson Rockefeller as he dominated New York State politics ... settling garbage strikes, battling with John Lindsay, building colleges and a great state university, pushing bond issues, building roads and expressways. He was always the best story of the day ... even just sitting up there on the dais at the Westchester Republican dinners at the old Commodore Hotel with the late Fred Powers and telling his neighbors: "Good to see you! ... Nice to see you! ... Wow ... You look fabulous!"

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He loved to tell them about the time old Boss Ward, the legendary Republican leader, put him on the Westchester Board of Health. And just last Thursday, as Henry Kissinger spoke at this year's county dinner, I was reminded of the time Fred Powers gave him a hug replica of the great Sword of Excalibur, which the Wilkinson Sword people had made up. And Nelson Rockefeller was like a kid and just _loved_ it! "Are you suggesting I'm ... a great ... _swordsman_!"

There were so many nights and speeches and trips and so many arrivals at the county airport. The Governor would come down out of his Gulfstream, exhausted, in the middle of the night. He might finesse an interview with the networks. But he _never_ waved off a WVOX microphone. And when he left Albany he gave us the last question at his final press conference as governor. And when we used the occasion to inquire which of his predecessors, of all those staring down at us in the Red Room, had "inspired" him, Nelson said a lot of great men had been Governor of New York ... but _Teddy Roosevelt_ had really inspired him, "as a young boy".

And there was the time Air Force Two brought a tired Vice President home from a long trip around the world. And as the national press and TV camera crews clamored for interviews, the "Governor", as we still called him, made straight for the news crew from our local station. And on this terrible, sad morning, my mind also drifts back to the time we accompanied him on a swing through the Deep South. David Broder and I were finishing a drink with Nelson as Air Force Two, a DC-9, hit the runway with a hell of an abrupt jolt - landing "hot", as the pilots call it, at Columbia, South Carolina. It reminded David Broder and me of our own mortality for a brief, nervous, fleeting moment. But Rockefeller never even winced. He winked and bounded down out of the plane to meet Strom Thurmond and about fifty southern belles in hoop skirts. "Wow!" On this same trip, down on Mobile Bay, he even charmed old George Wallace and his lady Cornelia. Eastern, patrician, aristocratic, wealthy, yankee Nelson Rockefeller wowed even the red necks down South. And we saw it. And felt it. And we remember.

He could never, of course, make the great, formal speech in front of a television camera. But in a room, with a crowd, or one-on-one, he was superb when he was informal. In 1968, in Miami, he had just delivered an uninspired formal speech to the delegates to the Republican National Convention. He didn't come across. But then, after his formal presentation, the Governor of New York joined Walter Cronkite in the CBS broadcast booth for a more informal discussion. The great Cronkite was trying hard to be his usual, objective self when Nelson reached over, put his hand on Walter's arm and said: "Just a minute, Walter ... I'd like to thank you, sir ... for all that you do ... The way you conduct yourself is an inspiration to me ... and to our country!" An astonished, but flattered, Walter Cronkite went over like a giant oak!

I'll remember lots of moments with this neighbor of ours. None more than the day just before Christmas, in 1974, when he walked into the Oval Office to be sworn in as Vice President of the United States. And America, which had just been through Watergate, felt good again about itself, having this extraordinary man at center stage for a while. And I remember Gerald Ford, the President, telling us over drinks in the White House: "Don't worry, Bill ... I agree with you ... Nelson and I are a good team ... he'll be on my ticket ... and we're going to win." That, of course, was before Bo Calloway and the mean, narrow southerners and the Rockefeller-haters started after him. Most men would sell their soul for the vice presidency or to sit in the Oval Office. He took himself _out_ of it - with style and with class and with that sense of grace which came so naturally.

And on this morning after he died last night in New York City, it is his sense of humor that keeps coming back to me. I heard him say - on a plane or in a chopper: "My lawyer just sued me!" I didn't understand - until Bobby Douglass, his counsellor, explained that Louis Lefkowitz, the attorney general, had just brought suit against Mobil Oil.

And he was in great, good form at his last public appearance here in the county at SUNY Purchase where he showed slides of his art collection to a very tony group - members of the Westchester Arts Council. He quipped and joked and raised his eyebrows and moved his blocky shoulders and his eyes twinkled and it was vintage Rockefeller. And as he greeted this staid, artsy crowd, an exceptionally well-endowed lady came through the receiving line - rather falling out of a plenty revealing dress. Nelson's eyes lit up. And when he noticed that Joe Canzeri and I had also tuned in on the display, the Governor threw a sly, mischievous wink to us (and to Happy standing next to him) and said to the lady: "Wow... how are you ... yes, sir ... good to see you!"

He was a man of great enthusiasm. He could find humor in almost any situation. But he had to have been hurt by that number done on him and his art reproductions by the reporter in the Times last month. And this weekend in the mighty New York Times, you can be sure James Reston, at least, will write a sweet, affectionate column about him - while Anthony Lewis, who shares the same page, will, predictably, find some way to tell us he never forgave Nelson for Attica. And many Catholics will never understand his stand on abortion. And, indeed, they have already declined to even pray for him among the formal petitions Sunday at Holy Family Church in New Rochelle! But in the same city, the Christian Brothers of Ireland at Iona Grammar School will remember the soul of Nelson Rockefeller at a mass for fathers and sons.

There was a big, broad range to his life. He was a high roller who was equally at ease with the Emperor of Japan and the Shah as he was with Meade Esposito of Brooklyn or any Yonkers politician. As a wealthy man, as a Rockefeller, he had a lot of material things - Kykuit, the house at Pocantico, an apartment on Fifth Avenue, the place at Seal Harbor, in Maine, his newest project in the desert near Brownsville, Texas. He would sit at "21" and jet off to Dorado for vacations or with Happy to visit an Italian princess named Letitia in Rome. But he also had great enthusiasm for some of the ordinary pleasures.

I discovered this the night we flew to Cleveland to campaign for Governor Jim Rhodes. A busy tour had been arranged - TV interviews, a visit to the publishers of the Plain-Dealer and a rubber chicken political dinner. Just before the supper we stopped at a slightly run-down Sheraton Hotel which was probably the best Cleveland had to offer. There were anti-abortion pickets screaming outside. But the Governor's hosts had laid on the "presidential suite" high above street level where we might repair for a brief rest stop before dinner. As we cased the room the Governor spotted a portable bar stocked with Dubonnet and milk ... which suited him just fine. I could have used a Canadian Club! And there also sat a gleaming silver tray with oreo cookies, all grandly wrapped in cellophane and with a ribbon. "Wow"... said the Governor of New York ... "Look at that!" And so there we sat in shirt sleeves eating oreo cookies, sipping Dubonnet and milk in the presidential suite while pickets chanted below ...

He has his name on great, tall buildings now - in Albany and in New York. And he has left around this State a lot of soaring architecture which will remind us and future generations of Nelson Rockefeller. But I will think of him every time I encounter enthusiasm and energy and optimism. And every time I see a kid eating an oreo cookie.

As I sit here at this microphone I can still hear and I can almost feel some of the rejection which met the man as he pursued his dreams across so many years, the rich man's son who could have been quite a glorious bum instead.

There will be a huge turnout at Riverside church next week when the Rockefellers bury their most dazzling son. But as dying is something you have to do all by yourself, there were no crowds to cheer him last night on 55th street.

In countless radio editorials over the years I've tried to tell you what he has done for our State and for our nation - his accomplishments. They are many and known to you. You can read about them all weekend in the public press. And when you are old, you can see all of it in the history books. But this morning I think I merely want to say I'm glad he was our neighbor - and a friend.

He ... lit ... up ... our ... lives ...

Nelson ... you were faabulous!

This is a WVOX Editorial of the Air. This is William O'Shaughnessy.

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Dr. Henry Kissinger
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Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Mark and I are writing to ask for your guidance and support on a goal that we have concluded is meaningful and worthwhile: giving Dad's name to establish the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA). The purpose of the Center will be to display and bring increased attention to Dad's extraordinary Mexican Folk Art collection which, combined with SAMA's other holdings, creates the largest Mexican Folk Art collection in the United States. The Center named after Dad would have three additional galleries housing Contemporary Paintings and Sculptures, Colonial Exhibits, and Pre-Colombian Exhibits. In addition, the purpose will be to provide vital educational outreach which will meaningfully contribute to greater understanding between the peoples of this hemisphere. This educational outreach will be partially funded by a $500,000 grant the Museum has already received from Southwest Bell.

Last spring SAMA offered to name the new Latin American Wing after Dad. For a number of reasons, including the Museum's request that the Rockefeller Family provide a gift of $1.2 million, the Museum's offer was declined. Thereafter, I pursued alternative ways to have Dad's name formally associated with the Mexican Folk Art collection that Ann, our half-sister, donated to SAMA in 1985.

We are thrilled to report that SAMA is now offering to name the entire new wing after Dad if a gift of only $600,000 payable over five years is pledged. Moreover, the Museum has responded favorably to our hopes that the new wing become a "Center" and be used as a locus for educational outreach on important aspects of this hemisphere.

We want to work together and dedicate our time, energy, and financial resources to having the Center named after Dad. I will be the point person on this effort, given Mark's existing commitments and schedule. Presently, I am working closely with the Rockefeller Family Office Philanthropy Department; Director of Philanthropy Charles Terry believes that the Museum's request is reasonable, that naming the Latin American Art Center after Dad is a wonderful tribute, and that SAMA is one of the premier cultural institutions in San Antonio. Moreover, we will be giving special attention to the educational outreach opportunities that the Center will provide and assure that the Center will carry Dad's name in a manner that would make him proud.

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As a first step I, Nelson, Jr., am prepared to donate $150,000, payable over five
years, towards the $600,000 goal. Any advice or assistance you could offer to help us succeed in
reaching this goal will be greatly appreciated. Mark and I will be reaching out to other family
members and non-family members who may be interested. We are anxious that this endeavor meet
with success.

We deeply appreciate that throughout Dad's life he dedicated himself to promoting increased understanding of Latin American culture, economic developments, and political systems. Without question, during his career he worked to improve this understanding, both while in government and as a private citizen.

We believe naming the new Center for Latin American Art after Dad is worthwhile
for the following reasons:

* As Dad always believed, there needs to be additional means for the people of the Americas to better understand each other. In his spirit the new Center will contribute towards this goal.

* San Antonio is said to be the "gateway to Latin America." Therefore, San Antonio is appropriate for a tribute to Dad's love of and dedication to Latin America.

* As San Antonio grows, SAMA is rapidly establishing itself as a premier cultural institution and a major player among national Museums. It is, in fact, being used increasingly as a gathering place for leaders in the art world, and has recently hosted such groups as the Art Museum Directors Association (which consists of the directors of the largest 150 museums in the country) and the College of Art Historians Association. We think it would be terrific to have Dad's name associated with a growing and vibrant institution.

* We believe there is a need to find ways to recognize Dad's commitment to helping the people of North, Central, and South America increase their understanding and appreciation of each other's cultures. Presently, nothing along these lines exists in Dad's name, and this Center is an opportunity to help accomplish this goal.

* San Antonio is close to the ranch we take care of in South Texas and as such we are eager to make a positive contribution to the region.

* Ann provided tremendous leadership and vision by deciding to keep together Dad's Mexican Folk Art collection which he established over a 50 year period. After a long and thoughtful search, she decided to give the vast majority of it to SAMA. The naming of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art builds on this initial investment. She has agreed to join with us in sending out these proposals and is very much in support of this concept.

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SAMA has raised $6.5 million to date towards the $9 million capital campaign goal for constructing the Center for Latin American Art ($6 million for construction and $3 million for endowment). When it reaches $8 million, the Museum will qualify for an additional $1 million in matching funds from the Mabee Foundation. Because of this outstanding challenge grant which must be completed soon, the Museum is eager to learn whether we will accept this offer, which will bring the Museum close to completing the capital drive.

We want to be sensitive to SAMA's needs and, thus, would like to respond quickly to their offer. We are delighted to discuss this matter directly with you. Please do not hesitate to contact us. As a next step, I will give your office a call in the near future. Charles Terry is also knowledgeable about this exciting endeavor and is ready to assist us.

Thank you for considering this proposal and for your valued counsel and guidance.

With warm regards,

Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jr.

Mark F. Rockefeller

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MEMORANDUM

TO:

Mr. Frederick M. Bohen
Dr. Jan L. Breslow
Dr. Jeffrey M. Friedman
Mr. Richard M. Furlaud
Mr. Carl B. Hess
Ms. Nancy Kissinger
Mr. Richard T. Perkin

Mrs. Marnie S. Pillsbury
Mrs. Ingrid W. Reed
Mr. David Rockefeller
Mr. Stephen Stamas
Dr. Markus Stoffel
Mr. John C. Whitehead
Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel

CC:

Ms. Gabrielle Riera
Ms. Karen Smith

FROM:

Marnie Imhoff
Vice President for Development

DATE:

December 11, 1995

SUBJECT: PRESIDENT'S HOUSE DINNER TO CELEBRATE THE STARR CENTER FOR HUMAN GENETICS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12 AT 7:00 P.M.

Tomorrow evening, we will celebrate the creation of The Starr Center for Human Genetics at The Rockefeller University with a special dinner in the President's House beginning at 7:00 p.m. Our honored guests will be **Maurice (Hank) Greenberg**, Chairman, President, and CEO of American International Group and Chairman of The Starr Foundation; **Corinne Greenberg**; **T. C. Hsu**, President of The Starr Foundation; **Dr. Arthur Verdesca**, Corporate Medical Director of American International Group; and **Ann Verdesca**. Mr. John Roberts, Vice Chairman of AIG, and Mrs. Roberts are unable to attend due to Mr. Roberts' overseas travel. Further information about our guests is appended; I will add the interesting (from a health standpoint) observation that the meal's main course—grilled swordfish—was requested by Mr. Greenberg, who does not eat meat or poultry and is deeply concerned about fitness and health.

The Starr Foundation's decision this past summer to award a grant of $5 million to The Rockefeller University enabled us to establish The Starr Center for Human Genetics, the second of our planned interdisciplinary centers to be named (the Fisher

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Center for Alzheimer's Research is the other). Prior giving from The Starr Foundation to the University totaled only $275,000 (a 1988 gift of $25,000 for the Thai-American Fellowship Program and $250,000 for AIDS research in 1992). The process which led to the $5 million gift began in January, when David Rockefeller, Stephen Stamas, and Torsten Wiesel called on Mr. Greenberg at his downtown office to discuss a major gift to Rockefeller. In April, our $5 million request was submitted and, in May, Torsten Wiesel, Steve Stamas, Jeffrey Friedman, and I made a trip downtown to speak with Mr. Hsu about our proposal. Subsequent to that meeting, Carl Hess had several conversations with Mr. Greenberg encouraging the Foundation to look positively on the University's request. Dick Perkin was also supportive of our efforts through his friendship with Starr Foundation Trustee John Roberts. Additionally, in June, Nancy Kissinger joined the RU Board of Trustees; Nancy and Henry Kissinger are very good friends with Hank and Corinne Greenberg. In late July, we learned of The Starr Foundation's favorable decision.

Tomorrow evening's festivities will begin at 7:00 p.m. with a cocktail reception, *during which we ask your cooperation as we attempt to take several posed photographs of Mr. Greenberg and Mr. Hsu with some of you (particularly the scientists)*. We will seat the party for dinner at 7:30 p.m. When all are seated, Dr. Wiesel will say a few words of welcome and then invite Dick Furlaud to add some welcoming words. The after-dinner "program," which will begin when everyone's dessert has been served, will be light. Dr. Wiesel will ask David Rockefeller to say a few words, and then Dr. Wiesel himself will talk briefly about The Starr Center. When he concludes, he will call on Dr. Jeffrey Friedman, Director of the Center, to speak. In his remarks, Dr. Friedman will introduce Drs. Breslow and Stoffel and say a few words about their genetic research. When Dr. Friedman is finished, Dr. Wiesel will encourage questions to all three scientists. Following this, Dr. Wiesel will ask Mr. Greenberg if he would like to say anything. Finally, Dr. Wiesel will ask Steve Stamas to conclude the evening.

Attached is a schedule for the dinner and a list of those attending, as well as a copy of a recent *News & Notes* (the University's weekly newsletter) which describes The Starr Center. The flowchart on page 3 provides an especially good summary for the layperson of the steps involved in genetic research and the diseases which will be under study initially.

Please let me know if you have any questions or would like further information.
Thank you very much for your participation in this important celebration.

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DINNER TO CELEBRATE
THE STARR CENTER FOR HUMAN GENETICS AT
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

Tuesday, December 12, 1995

President's House
7:00 P.M.

Attending

American International Group
and Starr Foundation Guests

Mr. Maurice Greenberg
and Mrs. Corinne Greenberg

Mr. T.C. Hsu

Dr. Arthur Verdesca
and Mrs. Ann Verdesca

RU Trustees

Mr. Richard M. Furlaud
and Mrs. Isabel Furlaud

Mrs. Nancy Kissinger
and Dr. Henry Kissinger

Mr. David Rockefeller

Mr. Stephen Stamas

Mr. John C. Whitehead
and Mrs. Nancy Dickerson Whitehead

RU Council Executive Committee Members

Mr. Carl Hess
and Ms. Ludmila Schwarzenberg

Mr. Richard T. Perkin
and Mrs. Leslie Perkin

University Representatives

Mr. Frederick M. Bohen

Dr. Jan L. Breslow
and Mrs. Marilyn Breslow

Dr. Jeffrey M. Friedman
and Ms. Lily Safani

Ms. Marnie Imhoff

Mrs. Marnie Pillsbury
and Mr. Donaldson Pillsbury

Ms. Ingrid W. Reed

Dr. Markus Stoffel
and Dr. Toula Stoffel

Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel

Total Attendance: 29

MAURICE R. GREENBERG
Chairman, The Starr Foundation

**Background Information:**

Maurice Greenberg began his career in the insurance industry working for Continental Casualty Company in 1952. In eight years time he became the youngest vice president in the company's history and in 1961, he joined American International Group Inc., the insurance company established by the late Cornelius Vander Starr. With $18 billion in revenue, AIG is currently the largest U.S. commercial underwriter and specializes in high risk areas such as directors' and officers' liability and kidnap-ransom bonding. Mr. Greenberg was appointed president and CEO of AIG in 1967, and chairman in 1989. Mr. Greenberg currently holds all three of these titles, in addition to being the chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The 1995 Forbes 400 estimates Mr. Greenberg's net worth to exceed $1 billion.

Mr. Greenberg is active in international and corporate politics and is currently a member of the President's Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and a member of the Business Roundtable, the Foreign Policy Association, the ASEAN-US Business Advisory Council, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Maurice R. Greenberg was born May 4, 1925 and grew up on a diary farm in upstate New York. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War, and was decorated with a Bronze Star. Mr. Greenberg graduated from the University of Miami in 1948 and New York Law School in 1950. Mr. Greenberg and his wife, Corinne, have four children: Jeffrey, Evan, Scott and Cathleen.

**Significant Affiliations:**

American International Underwriters Corp.      Chairman
Asia Society                                  Chairman
College of Insurance                           Trustee
Federal Reserve Bank of New York            Chairman, Board of Directors
Foreign Policy Association                     Director
Lexington Insurance Company                    Director
National Union Fire Insurance Company          Director
NYC Partnership                               Member
New York Hospital                              Former Chairman, Board of Governors
New York University                            Trustee

**Philanthropic Affiliations:**

Maurice Greenberg is the chairman of **The Starr Foundation**. In 1993, The Starr Foundation declared assets of $893.2 million and awarded grants totaling $40.1 million. The foundation supports higher education, health, social services, cultural programs and social

sciences. Mr. Greenberg was recently the Chairman of New York Hospital's Board of Governors, however he stepped down from this position in 1995. Mr. John F. McGillicuddy, former CEO and chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, assumed the position as chairman of the board of governors.

Maurice Greenberg is the donor and chairman of the **Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Foundation.** In 1991 the foundation claimed assets of $2,224 and awarded grants totaling $79,227. The foundation does not accept applications and gives to only pre-selected organizations in the New York metropolitan area. The foundation has historically supported youth, Jewish, and educational organizations. Sample grants for 1991 include $10,000 to the American Jewish Committee, $10,000 to Young Audiences, $6,000 to United Jewish Appeal, $5,000 to Brown University's annual fund and $2,000 to Saint Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center.

## Relationship with The Rockefeller University:

In August 1995, **The Starr Foundation** gave $5 million to the University to establish **The Starr Center for Human Genetics**. The Foundation made two previous gifts to the University; $25,000 for the Thai-American Fellowship in 1988 and $250,000 for AIDS Research in 1992. Mr. Greenberg will attend a dinner in honor of The Starr Foundation to be held on December 12, 1995. This will be Mr. Greenberg's first visit to campus.

Mr. Greenberg is acquainted with several University volunteers including David Rockefeller, Richard Furlaud, John Whitehead, Stephen Stamas, and Nancy Kissinger.

T.C. HSU
President, The Starr Foundation

Mr. T. C. Hsu is the President of The Starr Foundation, which supports education, hospitals and health groups, and cultural programs. In August 1995, the Foundation gave Rockefeller a $5 million grant to establish The Starr Center for Human Genetics. Mr. Hsu first visited the campus in 1978, and has subsequently attended four RU events, the latest being the October 1995 RU Council meeting. Mr. Hsu's father was an associate of Cornelius Vander Starr in Shanghai. When Mr. Hsu's father died in 1938, Mr. Starr brought the son to the United States, where he attended Haverford College.

DR. ARTHUR VERDESCA
Corporate Medical Director
American International Group

**Background Information:**

After receiving his medical degree from Columbia University in 1955, Dr. Arthur Verdesca served his internship and residency at St. Luke's Hospital in New York. He remained at St. Luke's until 1961, when he joined Western Electric as a staff physician. Dr. Verdesca rose through the ranks, and was ultimately appointed Medical Director of Western Electric's corporate headquarters. In 1985, he joined A.I.G., where he currently serves as corporate medical director.

Dr. Verdesca was born in Cliffside Park, New Jersey on May 25, 1930. He and his wife, Ann, have three children - Stephen, Julia, and Edith. Dr. Verdesca received A.B. (1951) and M.D. (1955) degrees from Columbia University. He is the author of two books, the most recent of which is *The History of Scurvy and Vitamin C* (1987).

**Significant Affiliations:**

American Board of International Medicine
New York Occupational Medicine Association

Diplomat
Member, Past President

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JOSEPH LELYVELD
Executive Editor

January 27, 1995

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
350 Park Avenue - 26th Floor
New York, N.Y. 10022

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

Punch forwarded your letter on the Clough
review of Peter Rodman's book to me and I'm taking
the liberty of replying to you on his behalf.

I don't know the reviewer and I haven't read
the book so I'm at a bit of a disadvantage. But a
fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations is not
obviously a far-out or bizarre choice for such an
assignment. Nor would any assigning editor neces-
sarily feel obliged to seek a review from someone
certain to agree with the viewpoint of the author.
Maybe there is something about Clough that I don't
know but on rereading the review, I don't find it
to be nearly as ideological or passionate or given
to lambasting as you did. It's not perhaps a
memorable review--either as a piece of writing or
as an act of intellectual engagement with the
book--but I also find it hard to see it, as you
did, as an Op-Ed piece.

We go to great lengths to be fair in our as-
ignments but, obviously, once those assignments
are made, we are pretty much stuck with the
reviewer's judgment, unless we determine that it
was intellectually dishonest or motivated by mean-
spirited personal concerns. In this case, I'm
satisfied that no one on the Book Review was pur-
suing any agenda, politically correct or other-
wise, in assigning the review to Michael Clough.

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The Committee on Admissions
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Dear Friends:

I am pleased to nominate for election to The Century, Gilbert E. Kaplan, who will be seconded by Schuyler G. Chapin.

This candidate is unusual in many respects, but primarily because he combines so well the two requirements we seek: artist as well as amateur of the arts.

Although we had many connections in past years as our paths crossed in the world of music, our friendship was cemented during a week-long trip to South Africa with the Council on Foreign Relations, when we spent many hours each day meeting with leaders from Nelson Mandela to the emerging leaders in government, education, and the arts. His knowledge in many fields and ability to converse interestingly demonstrated the character that our members would find convivial.

He was the founder, publisher, and editor of the *Institutional Investor*, a widely respected business magazine that has won 43 awards for distinguished financial journalism.

Of greater importance is his interest in the work of Gustav Mahler, carried to a success in the career of conducting the Second Symphony with many of the most important orchestras in the world including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philharmonic Orchestra of La Scala and the Kirov Opera in St. Petersburg, Russia. In April this year he conducted the Beijing premiere of the symphony with China's Central Philharmonic Orchestra. Next year he will conduct the opening concert of the Salzburg Summer Festival.

Mr. Kaplan's recording of Mahler's Second Symphony with the London

Symphony Orchestra and chorus was selected as one of the Records of the Year (1988) by *The New York Times* and was cited by German Television ZDF as the outstanding record released in 1988. It immediately appeared on the classical best-seller lists in the United States and in England where it remained for about two years, reaching the number one position, with sales in excess of 140,000 copies.

Mr. Kaplan has also recorded the Adagietto movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra selected as one of the Records of the Year by *The Sunday Times of London*. He also served as Executive Producer of *Mahler Plays Mahler*, a recording of rare piano rolls Mahler made of his own compositions in 1905. These rolls are the only documents that exist of Mahler as a performer. Released in 1993, *Mahler Plays Mahler* appeared on the best-seller list in the United States and was awarded the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (Prize of the German Record Critics) in the Historic Category for the first quarter of 1994 and the 1995 Mahler Prize for historical recordings by the Toblach Festival.

He has lectured widely on Mahler at Harvard and other leading universities and conservatories throughout the western world. He has written extensively on Mahler and his work has appeared in publications ranging from journals such as London's *The Musical Times* to *The New York Times*. He is the author of *The Mahler Album* (Abrams), an iconography. Although one might surmise that this overwhelming concentration on a work of the composer might leave little space for other interests, he collects surrealist works of art and co-authored *The Graphic Work of René Magritte*, a catalogue raisonné.

In addition to running the Foundation which bears his name, he does his share - and more - of supporting the arts as Vice Chairman of the Board of Carnegie Hall and by serving on the boards or committees of many cultural institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Business Committee); The Museum of Modern Art (Prints & Illustrated Books Committee); WNYC, New York's public television and radio stations; the American Foundation of La Scala Opera House of Milan; the Advisory Board of the London Symphony Orchestra; and was just appointed to the Board of Overseer's Visiting Committee to the Department of Music of Harvard University.

He has received many awards and honors, chiefly for his contribution to musical performance and scholarship, but his enquiring mind finds an informed amateur's interest in architecture, theatre, literature and other arts.

His conversation is informed, lively and friendly, and I very much hope he will soon join our ranks.

FPR:MDG

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Office of International Trade
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Boston, Massachusetts 02202
U.S.A.

MAY 08 1995

WILLIAM F. WELD
GOVERNOR

ARGEO PAUL CELLUCCI
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

GLORIA CORDES LARSON
SECRETARY

NICHOLAS ROSTOW
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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May 2, 1995

Dear Mr. Secretary:

I have been meaning to write since seeing you in mid-February when you visited Governor Weld. (I hope your wife has recovered well from her dealings with the medics.) I am spurred today by having run into Bill Codinha (!) on Boston Common. There's no escape from Vietnam these days: I am scheduled to go to Vietnam in June with Lieutenant Governor Cellucci, who is leading a trade mission there and to Taiwan and recently saw McNamara perform at the Kennedy School. Interestingly, a Vietnamese Professor on the panel implied that the United States had been right in Vietnam; a Russian TV talk show host was explicit in his disagreement with McNamara's view. All of this has reminded me of working with you on POW/MIA matters in 1992.

But the real purpose of this letter is to tell you that I have read Diplomacy -- it proved to be extraordinarily useful in connection with a course I taught this spring on the Cold War -- and found it absorbing, penetrating, and excellent. I assigned part of it and could have used the whole book as a text. It is engaging in the French sense. I could write at great length about almost every sentence, but will spare you. I mean that as praise -- there aren't many books I think are worth such focus and yours was. Your treatment of the past clarifies a number of points argued in A World Restored, particularly the meaning and place of "legitimacy". In any event, to have a former foreign minister's reflections on the development of the international system is rare and special.

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
350 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10022

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August 17, 1995

Dr. Henry Kissinger

AUG 2 4 1995

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

I have been procrastinating about writing this letter for a long time, but even this has to come to an end. I received from Germany a clip of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeiting from March 3rd, 1994. It describes your visit to "die gedenkstatte" in Ahlem. It also mentioned that you were one of the American soldiers who was in Ahlem liberating that KZ Lager which was a subsidiary of Neuengamme. My name is Josef Rozenberg now. In KZ Ahlem I was called Heinrich Rosenberg and my number was 53272.

On April 6th, 1945 the German supervisors took all able bodies for a march to Bergen Belsen. I was not able to walk at that time so they left me and all disabled people in the Barracks. We had to run away the next day and hide outside the Lager because SS men and trucks came to clean it up on the 7th of April (Saturday). We hid until Tuesday the 10th of April. In the morning of that day American tanks rolled by on the road by the Lager. We were liberated.

The reason for this letter is that on the 12th of April, before we were sent to Heidehaus for recovering, I was hit over my head by a German civilian and came back to Ahlem KZ Lager. On that same day pictures were taken of us in the camp by Americans. I was standing behind a barrel of kohlrabi with a bandaged head.

I don't know of your position in the US Army when liberating Ahlem, but I hope that you were the photographer or your associates took pictures of the camp and survivors. A picture was taken of me at that time, behind that barrel. I was 19 years old in 1945.

Now I'm nearing my 70th birthday and there couldn't be a better remembrance then having a picture from that day to give to my children and grandchildren as a memory.

I wonder if you, Dr. Kissinger, have any pictures taken for the American press or can advise me of where I could recover such pictures. It would be a great accomplishment for me after 50 years. My life, in my opinion, is as normal as anybody's in this country for which I am grateful.

I will take the liberty to thank you in advance for any answer I will get.