HENRY A. KISSINGER

October 27, 1992

Dear Mr. Rakhmanov:

Please accept my thanks for your superb
interpretation during my visit to Uzbekistan.
Your efforts contributed importantly to the
success of our visit and I want you to know
how much I appreciated it.

Mr. Kakhramon R. Rakhmanov
Consultant on Inter-State and External
Economic Relations
Office of the President
700000, Tashkent
43, Uzbekistan Avenue
Republic of Uzbekistan

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BEATRICE

• RANGEL

SEP 03 1992

Caracas, september 2, 1992

Doctor
HENRY KISSINGER
President
Kissinger Associates
New York
U.S.A.

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

It has been so long since I don't see you that you
are beginning to turn into the legend that I have longed
for at least three quarters of my life.

Things in Venezuela have been improving slowly. The
pressure upon the President has given way to a pressures
against Congress that embarked itself upon a Constitutional
Reform that nobody seems to want. The situation within the
military is apparently stable although some recent acussations
of wrogndoing in the procurement of electronic radar systems
has produced three indicments that affect two high ranking
officers of the navy and a retired Admiral. This has caused
much debate in the public opinion and a lot of anguish in
the higher echelons of the armed forces. But apparently the
Armed Forces are a bit uneasy about the whole affair. A recent
development that has caused much uproar in the media is the
decision of the government to prohibit the broadcasting of a
T.V. program featuring an interview of Commander Chávez. The
political parties of the status however have rallied behind
the government. Finally, the fiscal situation looks very
much like that of the U.S. The slope in oil revenues has
opened up a fiscal gap of about 10.000 million U.S.$. Hope
that these news are not discouraging.

García Márquez has asked to ask you whether you
would make a recorded statement about the kind of América
that we will see if Bush is reelected versus if Clinton is
elected. The statement would be broadcasted through García

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Márquez's News cast in Colombia. Please let me know if you agree.

Concerning myself I think I am beginning to pull the theatre out of bankruptcy. But there is a lot to be done. In four months I have only been able to redress 10% of the problems. We are now thinking of exporting or production services in order to get more income. But to do that we need to bring celebrities to our premises so that the theater is better known. I am so sorry that you cannot sing or dance. But since I cannot have you what if we could get Liz Taylor to come? It would give a boom to the center and would also help us in our campaign to fight AIDS. Could you think of a gimlet to trap Ms. Taylor?

I think I will have to travel to New York in October. Will let you know in advance to see if I run with the luck of taking you out for lunch.

Please do not forget your Venezuelan friends that hope to see you more often than the situation allows.

Lots of love,

Beatrice Rangel Mantilla

BRM/ngz

HENRY A. KISSINGER

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

September 18, 1989

(Pearlstine)

Dear Norman:

The Wall Street Journal today (September 18) referred to my "extensive business interests" in China, proving that your reporters are taking in each other's washing without bothering to check how clean it is.

As I told you, the original story was outrageous as to both the facts and journalistic method. It does not improve in the retelling.

A forty-year record of publication and public service ought to make a responsible journalist hesitate before implying that my views are for sale. Instead, under the guise of inquiring into a possible "conflict of interest" between my public statements and my commercial interests, your reporter does a hatchet job on my integrity.

What are the facts?

That I have a consulting business is well known. Many articles have appeared about it; Eagleburger testified about it at length during his confirmation hearings. We do not advertise or solicit clients; we take no money from governments; we do not act as foreign agents; we do no lobbying. This is all on the public record; none of it is reflected in the article.

Clients come to us for advice about trends. They do not come for "inside information." They judge us by our accuracy in forecasting probable evolutions. Most of our clients do not ask about China at all, for the simple reason that China is not yet a major factor in international business.

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As you might expect, we are asked much more
frequently about Soviet and East European trends,
even more often about Western Europe, the free
economies of Asia and Latin America. All our
advice is kept confidential and certainly not
shared with the Chinese government.

There is little to add about China Ventures. The
project was slated to be announced on June 15. I
cancelled the announcement the day after "Tienanman
Square" and suspended any consideration of
investments. On July 24, the board of China
Ventures voted unanimously not to make any
investments under present circumstances. Nor had
any investments been made previously.

I also cancelled a speech in Beijing scheduled for
October 2 to a conference on foreign investment. I
did all this precisely to be able to comment
publicly, free of any implication of self-interest.

Your reporter seemed so determined to "prove" the
opposite, he tortured facts or twisted quotes.
Thus:

- Two individuals who were quoted in the article (or had views ascribed to their organizations) have denied the accuracy of your reporter's innuendo (see copies of letters attached).

- According to Winston Lord, he told your reporter that during his four years in Beijing I made three visits, that he was present at my every high-level meeting and that no commercial subject was ever discussed. Your reporter, however, referred only to my last visit.

- I urged your reporter to talk to John Whitehead. As a former partner of Goldman Sachs with which I had had a consulting relationship, he, I thought, could tell your reporter how I refused all suggestions that I act as door opener when my

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earning capacity in that regard was at its height. While not directly relevant to the story, such comments might have inspired caution before alleging that door opening was a principal occupation of Kissinger Associates. No reference to that conversation appeared in the article.

- Finally, I urged your reporter to talk to Governor Kean of New Jersey. He had been with me on the trip of the America-China Society to Beijing. His presence alone should have cautioned your reporter to be careful about implying commercial motives. He literally attended every meeting. He would surely have confirmed that no business was discussed by me.

The most outrageous misinterpretation in the article concerns the America-China Society, which your reporter presents as a cross between a lobbying organization and a business front for Kissinger Associates.

But a minimum of research or even inquiry would have revealed the following incontrovertible facts. The Society was founded by Cy Vance and me in 1987. Its founding - and publicly released - document states its purpose _inter alia_ as: "The America-China Society is a not-for-profit organization established to promote a series of goals, among them being to increase understanding between the U.S. and the P.R.C.; to advance diplomatic, commercial, cultural, social, scientific and educational ties between them..."

Every former President is honorary Chairman of the Society; every former Secretary of State is on its board of directors, as is every former ambassador to China and many former Cabinet members of both parties. In other words, the America-China Society is very similar to the Japan Society, though much poorer; hence I make a room in my offices available to its part-time Executive Director. It has held two conferences, one on

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economic matters and the second on political evolution. It has held three dinners for visiting Chinese dignitaries. There is no relationship whatever to my business.

Finally, is it really necessary for a newspaper dedicated to business to repeat that hoary chestnut of the secrecy of my business operations? Does the _Wall Street Journal_ know one serious consulting firm or law firm prepared to publish an open list of its clients or the advice they give?

A serious newspaper should be careful about playing games with reputations. You know as well as I do that this article with all its inaccuracies will now enter the folklore.

Is not the real truth more plausible than commercial self-interest: that as the U.S. official asked to open relations with China, I have a special solicitude for that relationship?

Mr. Norman Pearlstine
Managing Editor
Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
9th Floor
New York, New York 10281

HENRY A. KISSINGER

November 3, 1992

Dear Captain Redfield:

I have been traveling almost continuously
since you dropped us in Paris but I have
not forgotten the fabulous job you did on
our trip through some of the world's most
tricky airways. I know an enormous amount
of preparation went into it and am grateful
for all that you did. Coming from me it is
the ultimate compliment to say that I actually
was able to enjoy some of the spectacular
scenery. But then I knew I was in the hands
of a skilled and efficient pilot.

With much appreciation and high regard,

Captain Scott F. Redfield
Diamond International Aviation Corp.
Hangar 1, L.I. MacArthur Airport
Ronkonkoma, New York 11779

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1 December 1992

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By fax : (212) 759-0042

From The Ambassador

The Honorable
Dr Henry Kissinger
Twenty-Sixth Floor
350 Park Avenue
New York NY 10022

Dear Henry,

Thank you very much for your telephone call. I am sorry that you will not be able to visit Hong Kong on this occasion : Chris Patten was looking forward to seeing you.

I undertook to send you some background about his constitutional proposals before your visit to Peking. This is attached.

What the Governor is trying to do is to make the administration of Hong Kong more accountable in the period up to 1997. This follows a lot of consultation with the local community. He is ending the practice of overlapping membership of the Executive and Legislative Councils and will make himself available to answer questions in the Legislative Council. These are very modest changes.

Although we would prefer to increase the number of directly elected seats beyond the twenty laid down in the Basic Law agreed with the Chinese, we have no intention of trying to do so without Chinese agreement. The Governor's aim is to try to broaden democratic participation within the terms of the Basic Law.

You asked about consultations with the Chinese. The Chinese Foreign Minister was given advance briefing by Douglas Hurd in New York on 25 September. The Governor announced his proposals to the Legislative Council on 7 October. The Chinese were told that if they could not accept the Governor's proposals for a limited extension of democratic rights, we hope they will make counter-proposals.

.../You

You will be aware of the latest developments,
including Chinese threats not to honour after 1997
contracts about which they are not consulted. That is
directly contrary to the terms of the Basic Law, which
expressly stipulates that contracts which are valid under
Hong Kong's existing laws will continue to be valid and
protected after 1997.

As you know, we are concerned about possible moves
towards partial or general withdrawal of MFN treatment
from China. We are trying to get it across to the Chinese
that a threatening attitude towards Hong Kong is liable to
cause further difficulties here over renewal of MFN.

You very kindly undertook to let me know of any
relevant points that emerge from your meetings with the
Chinese. I know that both Douglas Hurd and Chris Patten
would value very much any further indications you may
obtain about Chinese thinking, both about Hong Kong and
about the prospects for MFN renewal.

Robin Renwick

Republican Majority Coalition

The coalition to take back our party.

One of the principal reasons the Republican party lost the
1992 elections at all levels is because our party was viewed as
representing a narrow extremist social agenda.

Many of the voters who voted in overwhelming numbers for
Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 and George Bush in 1988 left our
party because they perceived the Religious Right tugging our
party to the extremes on a host of issues.

This perception culminated at our party's convention when
the codeword "family values" took on an extremist connotation and
speaker after speaker appealed to voter fear and prejudice.

The Republican party is increasingly viewed as a party of
litmus tests rather than a diverse party of individual freedom
and economic growth and opportunity.

OUR GOAL

The goal of the **Republican Majority Coalition** is to reaffirm
the traditional position of the Republican party as a party that
opposes big government intrusion in personal matters.

The Republican party should be fiscally conservative, anti-tax, tough on crime, standing for a strong national defense. But the Republican party must also stand for keeping government out of our private lives.

We believe the Republican party must re-establish America's
fiscal wealth by reducing the deficit, providing incentives for
wealth creation and economic growth, creating opportunities for
women and others who have not fully enjoyed the American dream,
simplifying Government and eliminating those functions that are
redundant and lessening the regulatory burden on those who create
jobs, and championing the right of the individual in matters of
privacy and through empowerment over economic choices to the
maximum extent possible.

There is no room in the Republican party for anti-semitism, racial intolerance, bigotry or litmus tests.

We believe the Republican party and the nation will prosper
if our party returns to its fundamental principles of origin in
fostering economic growth and individual freedom, and sets no
additional tests of a religious or other nature as prerequisites
for good standing in our party.

That's the Republican party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt,
Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford and Reagan.

1717 T Street, N.W., Suite 22, Washington, D.C. 20009

THE CHALLENGE

As the attached clippings from the Washington Post, The New York Observer and The San Francisco Examiner document, it is the intention of the Religious Right to capture and dominate the Republican party as a vehicle for the furthering of their social agenda.

The Religious Right wants to break down the separation of church and state.

They want to restore mandatory school prayer, require Biblical accounts of creation in the classroom, allow public funds for church-related schools, ban legal abortion, ban contraceptives and sex education and restore penalties for homosexuality - and they intend to use the Republican party as their vehicle to achieve these goals.

WHAT WE MUST DO

We are forming the **Republican Majority Coalition**. Quite simply our goal is to rally the conservative and moderate majority within the Republican party to combat efforts to distort our party's goals.

Congressman Tom Campbell of California will serve as National Chairman of the effort.

The Republican Majority Coalition must

* Organize and mobilize the conservatives and moderates within the Republican party to turn out for caucuses, primaries, committee meetings.

* Thwart the Religious Right takeover of the Republican party at the grassroots. This has to be done at the local, county, and state level. We are the majority but if the followers of the Religious Right turnout in disproportionate numbers we will lose control of our party.

* Alert our fellow Republicans to the threat posed by the Religious Right. We must motivate those who are unaware of the activities of the Religious Right. We must stir the apathetic within our party.

* Assist Republican candidates who are opposed by extremist candidates in party primaries. In New Hampshire four incumbent conservative Republican state senators were challenged in the primary by Religious Right candidates. One was defeated. We must assist men and women who courageously oppose the Religious

Right and are running for Congress, state legislatures
and party offices.

o Mount a sophisticated effort to identify and mobilize
our supporters in the early Presidential primary states
of Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida and Illinois. Already
the Religious Right is organizing in Iowa.

This fight is not over - it has just begun. We must not let
a vocal extremist minority undo everything the Republican party
truly stands for; tolerance, individual liberty and freedom from
government tyranny.

WHAT WE WANT YOU TO DO

Please join the Republican Majority Coalition. In the
months ahead we plan to recruit hundreds of Republican leaders to
our cause and organize our efforts in fifty states.

We are asking you to be one of the original founders of this
effort. We want to include you in the list of 25 on our
"Committee in Formation."

Your participation will be much appreciated and valued.

THOMAS A. REYNOLDS, JR.

35 WEST WACKER DRIVE
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60601

November 3, 1992

NOV 05 1992

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Twenty-Sixth Floor
350 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022

Dear Henry:

We'll miss you too!

You're not only smart but fun!

You might want to check the accuracy of
your Rolodex. You were nice enough to write me as
Chairman of Winston & Strawn **at my home address.**
Suzie quickly observed that I might be Chairman of
Winston & Strawn, but not at 1025 Hill Road. She
asserts the Chairmanship at that address!

When you're in Chicago, do give me a call,
I'll grab my partner, your pal Governor Thompson and
the three of us will partake of an adult beverage or
two.

Warmest personal regards.

TAR, Jr./tbb

Execute Three Original Copies
Please Use Black Ink

AUTHORIZATION AND RELEASE

I, (Name) Steven R. Rivkin

born at (City) Boston (State) MA (Country) USA

on (Date) January 11, 1937, having filed an application for admission to

the bar of (Jurisdiction) Maryland, hereby apply for a character report and consent to have an investigation made as to my moral character, professional reputation and fitness for the practice of law and such other information as may be received, all of which will be reported only to the admitting authority. I agree to give any further information which may be required concerning my past record. I understand that the contents of my character report are confidential.

I also authorize and request every person, firm, company, corporation, governmental agency, law enforcement agency, court, association or institution having control of any documents, records or other information pertaining to me, to furnish to the National Conference of Bar Examiners any such information, including documents, records, bar association files regarding charges or complaints filed against me, including any complaints erased by law, whether formal or informal, pending or closed, or any other pertinent data; and to permit the National Conference of Bar Examiners or any of its agents or representatives to inspect and make copies of such documents, records or other information. The records, however, will not include any information with respect to a juvenile offense.

I authorize the National Personnel Records Center, in St. Louis, MO or other custodian of my military record to release to the National Conference of Bar Examiners information or photocopies from my military personnel and related medical records, or only the following information/records:

N.A. This could include a photocopy of my DD Form 214, Report of Separation.

I hereby release, discharge and exonerate the National Conference of Bar Examiners, its agents and representatives, the admission agency of the above jurisdiction, its agents and representatives, and any person so furnishing information from any and all liability of every nature and kind arising out of the furnishing or inspection of such documents, records, and other information or the investigation made by the National Conference of Bar Examiners or by the admission agency.

I have read the foregoing document and have answered all questions fully and frankly. The answers are complete and true of my own knowledge.

State of Maryland

ss.)

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Signature of Applicant (Sign in black ink)

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th day)

of December A.D., 1991

Notary Public (Sign in black ink)

Seal or stamp must be affixed to each original.

HENRY A. KISSINGER

February 27, 1992

Dear Patrick:

Thank you for your letter of February
24th and for sending along the list of the
participants in the discussions at Davos.

It was indeed a very stimulating event
and your help was essential to making it a
success.

I would like to consider the question of
finding a place for you in our organization,
though at the moment I have nothing specific
in mind. What I propose is to review the
materials which will be sent from London and
then discuss the situation with some of my
colleagues here to see if there may be a fit
between your considerable talents and our
needs.

I have asked one of my associates,
Ambassador Jerry Bremer, to follow up with
you.

Thank you again for all of your
assistance during our stay in Davos.

Mr. Patrick Robertson
c/o World Economic Forum
53 Chemin des Hauts-Crets
CH-1223 Cologny/Geneve
Switzerland

Tel: 022/736 0243 Fax: 022/786 2744

FEB 24 1992

10 February 1992

Dr Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger Inc
350 Park Avenue
Twenty-sixth Floor
New York, NY 10022

Dear Dr Kissinger,

It was a pleasure to meet you and Nancy in Davos last week. I had no idea that my emergency mission to persuade you to keep to your programme would result in such an interesting weekend. I hope that for you too it proved to be a useful occasion, judging by the number of ex-Soviet and other supplicants. (I attach, by the way, the list of people you met for your 'thank you' notes.) Zorina, too, joins me in thanking you for a lovely supper, which was very kind of you.

I have thought about your suggestion that I join your staff in New York. My thoughts have been greatly assisted by a nasty dose of 'flu which felled me four days ago and which has prevented me from doing much else. In short, I would be delighted to work for you and would consider it an honour were you to accept my services.

Accordingly, I have asked my people in London to send you some material by way of a more detailed introduction to myself. Amongst other things you will receive a copy of my first book, *Reshaping Europe* for which Mrs Thatcher wrote an introduction. For a reference, you may wish to contact Mrs Thatcher directly. I have written to her to let her know that you may be in touch about me.

My main interest lies in working for you personally. Until I met you I had no plans to move to the United States at this stage in my life, and without some more thought I would not be in a position to suggest any names to whom you might recommend me as you kindly suggested.

I return to London on 14 March. (My address, for your records, is No. 2, 36 Denbigh Street, Pimlico, London SW1, tel: 071-828 7945.) I sincerely hope that it will prove possible for you to find a place for me in your staff. I feel sure it would be a very happy fit.

Best wishes to you and Nancy, and greetings to Henry. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

MAY 12 1992

30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA

NEW YORK, N.Y. 10112

ROOM 5600

(212) 649-5600

May 6, 1992

Dear Henry:

I have just returned from what will be my last meeting as a member of the Banco Nazionale del Lavoro Advisory Committee in Villa d'Este. It was a pleasant meeting with a number of members still present who were on the Committee before you resigned. Since I have missed the meetings during both the last two years and have found it increasingly difficult to fit them into my schedule, I am planning to submit my resignation to Dr. Gianpiero Cantoni in the near future.

Before the meeting, I spent four days with Gianni and Marella Agnelli, partly in Turin and party visiting beautiful historic and artistic sites in Northern Italy. I cannot imagine more wonderful people with whom to take such a tour.

Going back before that, I wanted to thank you and congratulate you for the two excellent talks you gave, first in Washington at the Forum of the Americas and second in Lisbon at the Trilateral Commission. No one puts current-day events so effectively in their historic context than you do. Both groups were extraordinarily fortunate in the fact that you were willing to take the time to be with them. Since I have been closely identified with the Americas Society and Trilateral, I feel a bit responsible for your presence in both locations and, therefore, am doubly grateful to you for the extra effort you took to make such invaluable contributions.

I look forward to meeting you on a couple of occasions before long.

With warm regards,

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger Associates
350 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10022

SEP 03 1992

30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA

NEW YORK, N.Y. 10112

ROOM 5600

(212) 649-5600

August 25, 1992

Dear Nancy and Henry:

Thank you for your letter regarding the World Monuments Fund
1992 Hadrian Award Luncheon on November 2.

Given the honor to the Agnellis, I would be glad to serve on
the committee. I would also like to support the event, and to
that end I've enclosed a check in the amount of $4,000 made
payable to the World Monuments Fund.

Unfortunately, it looks as though I will be out of town on
November 2. However, if my schedule changes and I am able to
attend the luncheon, I will let you know.

Peggy and I have had some wonderful sailing in Maine.
I hope you're having a good summer!

With best wishes,

Dr. and Mrs. Henry Kissinger
Kissinger Associates
350 Park Avenue
26th Floor
New York, NY 10022

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OCT 02 1992

30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA

NEW YORK, N.Y. 10112

ROOM 5600

(212) 649-5600

September 25, 1992

Dear Henry and Nancy:

The dedication of the laboratory building at The Rockefeller University which was named for my Father and myself was an event I will never forget.

The thoughtful planning and organization of these warm and festive celebrations were done without Peggy's and my knowing any of the details. As a result, we were totally surprised and deeply touched when we learned of the participation of so many dear friends and associates.

In reality, I had not realized until just before the event that you and several other of our good friends had been asked to contribute to the dedication itself as well as to the four days of lectures and programs celebrating science at The Rockefeller. What a wonderful thing for you to have done. I thank you more than I can say.

Your willingness to contribute to a place that has meant so much to me for over 52 years means a great deal to me. My deepest thanks to you for your generosity and your friendship.

With best regards,

The Honorable and Mrs. Henry A. Kissinger
435 East 52nd Street
New York, New York 10022

AUG 3 1 1992

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August 28, 1992

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger Associates
350 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022

Dear Henry:

Ten years ago friends like you participated in creating the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College honoring my father. In a short span of time, the Center has evolved from an elegant structure in a picturesque New England town to a multidisciplinary resource for students, scholars, and practitioners, and has become known locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. We will celebrate our accomplishments and launch into a second decade of opportunities with a year-long anniversary program beginning in January 1993. The Center's Board of Visitors, Faculty Council, Student Council, and staff invite you to join us in celebrating the past and looking into the future.

Enclosed is an informational brochure which will give you a sense of the Center's vitality and range of intellectual activities. In its first decade of operation, the Center has demonstrated its ability to meet the charge of its creators--to stimulate research and teaching in the social sciences and enhance an understanding of an involvement in public affairs and public policy.

As the Center celebrates its tenth anniversary, it launches into the new and stormy era of a rapidly changing world which requires, more than ever, an understanding of our increasingly interdependent global society. Through interdisciplinary research and teaching programs, internships and undergraduate research opportunities, publications and media activities, and public affairs programs, the Center will continue to meet the challenges of this evolving new world order by sparking new ideas and programs essential to solving complex social and policy issues.

We are proud of the Center's accomplishments in its first decade, as they reflect the spirit of Nelson Rockefeller's diverse interests and talents. We welcome the opportunity to share our success with you and have you participate in our anniversary celebration. A schedule of programs will be sent to you later in the fall.

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October 29, 1992

John T. Bethell, Editor
The Harvard Magazine
7 Ware Street
Cambridge, MA 02138-4001

Dear Mr. Bethell:

Re: Book Review by Richard Marius (November-December Issue, 1992)

It saddens and shocks me that a contributing editor of Harvard Magazine who is also the Director of Harvard's Expository Writing Program could spume up such a scathing, vitriolic so-called book report on Walter Isaacson's "Kissinger: A Biography". It is not much of a contribution to truth; frankly, it reeks of malevolence. It is diatribe on Kissinger more than it is a discussion of the book itself.

What Isaacson admits to some ambivalence (and I personally contest many of the allegations and revisionist history), nevertheless he credits Kissinger with many accomplishments. Marius, with pure venom and full denunciation of Kissinger, faults the man as well as his activities. He did not treat the book in a dispassionate, objective fashion, but rather launches furious attacks. The indulgence in hateful slurs and innuendoes on Kissinger's ethics is conduct unfitting an academic. Marius is presumably well versed in English, but obviously not in international affairs or psychology. I hope he teaches his students with less venom and less bias, for he is more than unkind, acting more like a character assassin. He attributes motives he cannot possibly verify. His review belongs more to a tabloid than to a prestigious publication like Harvard Magazine.

Kissinger, a Nobel Prize winner, (lest we forget) is a scholar, teacher, a statesman, a diplomat, an historian, and an entrepreneur. In turbulent and disturbing times, he has performed great and genuine services to Harvard and our country. He well deserves his worldwide honors, and Marius is being scurrilous when he calls him "a Godzilla of duplicity" and "a kind of geisha boy selling his influence and celebrity". Does such meanness and pettiness merit inclusion in a proper book report?

I trust there is no censorship policy in Harvard Magazine. However, I hope your editorial staff looks at obviously biased, scandalous, nearly libelous material and suggests a contributor exercise mature judgment

Etc

The Browser

Politics, the work trade, fantastic history.

# Subterfuge and Lies

Richard Marius

*Kissinger: A Biography*, by Walter Isaacson '74 (Simon & Schuster, $30).

*After the War Was Over: Hanoi and Saigon*, by Neil Sheehan '58 (Random House, $17).

*Capitol Games: Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, and the Story of a Supreme Court Nomination*, by Timothy M. Phelps and Helen Winteritz '74 (Hyperion, $24.95).

*The Swamp Root Chronicle: Adventures in the Word Trade*, by Robert Manning, Nf '46, IOP '81 (Norton, $24.95).

*Finders, Keepers*, by Stephen Jay Gould, professor of geology and Agassiz professor of zoology, and Rosamond Wolff Purcell (Norton, $50).

In *Kissinger: A Biography*, author Walter Isaacson tries scrupulously to be fair. He repeatedly calls Henry Kissinger '50, Ph.D. '54, "brilliant," praises his "analytical mind," and tells us that "he was the foremost American negotiator of this century."

But a fair assessment still finds Kissinger rising from these pages like a Godzilla of duplicity. It is hard to read this crushingly detailed story of the man and the Nixon administration he served—first as national security adviser and then as secretary of state—without thinking of standing in the cool dark of the snake house at the Bronx Zoo, watching safely through thick glass as poisonous vipers entwine in knots in the moist, dim light of their cages.

Our glass is time, and Kissinger and Nixon are now relegated to the past where they can do no more harm. Kissinger has become a kind of geisha boy, selling his influence and celebrity to corporations to the tune of some $8 million a year.

This latter-day Kissinger was heavily involved in a consortium intending to invest $75 million in China. Sanctions imposed by the United States on the Deng regime after the massacre in

Tiananmen Square would kill the deal. Kissinger campaigned against them.

"No government in the world would have tolerated having the main square of its capital occupied for eight weeks by tens of thousands of demonstrators," he wrote in a newspaper column at the time.

The United States, he thought, had no right to intervene in China's internal affairs—this from a man who at age 15 in 1938 had the good luck to escape with his Jewish family from German internal affairs that involved preparation for the Holocaust. Naturally he denies that his stand against sanctions was related to personal gain.

No brief review can do justice to Isaacson's huge book or even summarize Kissinger's pettiness, his tantrums, his ego mania, his lies, his backstabbing, his fawning over Nixon while Nixon humiliated him with Oval Office tirades against "the Jews," the paranoid "back-channel" conspiracies he shaped within government, and the ultimate failure of his grand schemes.

Isaacson interviewed some 150 people including Kissinger and Nixon, read volumes of letters, papers, and books by principals in the events he describes, and made the supreme sacrifice of reading just about everything Kissinger himself ever wrote.

Kissinger believed in realpolitik, that

states have no principles, only interests, that diplomacy is the art of getting the best for our side at any cost, no matter who or what gets hurt.

On these assumptions he achieved American withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973 on only slightly worse terms from Hanoi than he could have had in 1969, Isaacson points out, at a cost of more than twenty thousand additional American lives and near chaos in America itself.

The invasion of Cambodia in 1970

wrecked such stability as that miserable little country possessed and prepared the way for the massacre of perhaps one million Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge. Kissinger called the agreement that led to American withdrawal "Peace With Honor."

His other "successes" look similarly specious in the light of this biography. Isaacson concludes, "Kissinger never had an instinctive feel for American values and mores.... [His] power-oriented realism and focus on national interest faltered because it was too dismissive of the role of morality."

Here is the crux, I think. Kissinger longed to be taken as American. But his mentality was always German, his mind shaped by that strange land in the middle of Europe with no natural frontiers and with enemies all around, poisoned by a paranoia that sees every decision as a matter of ultimate survival. In his surreal imagination, to concern oneself with honesty, humanity, and decorcity is to court extinction.

Kissinger probably likes to be called Machiavellian. But we too often forget that the major premise of Machiavelli was not duplicity but that a prince had to court his people to win their allegiance.

Machiavelli believed that the Italians of the sixteenth century were so corrupt and so gul-

ible that a prince must be cruel, dishonest, and willing to use any means to power. But he longed for the self-sacrificing republican virtues of ancient Rome.

In a democratic society with a free if bumbling press, subterfuge and lies eventually get to the public. Kissinger's genius for self-promotion was so great that for a time the press became a kennel of lapdogs yapping his praises in concert.

But truth will out. Witness this book. Then the scorn for the people on the part

Heinz Kissinger, later known as Henry, eight, in Fürth, Germany, 1931. "A dutiful and bookish boy, he went to synagogue every morning to study the Torah," writes his biographer. "His passion was soccer; after Jews were banned from public matches, he would often sneak into the stadium and risk beatings from Nazi youth gangs."

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of princes like Kissinger becomes a warped mirror held up to us, and we are asked to decide if indeed we are the contemptible pygmies reflected in his glass.

While I sat night after night in my rocking chair reading Isaacson on Kissinger, my wife, Lanier, sat on the couch reading David McCullough's glorious biography *Truman*. From time to time we read aloud to each other—she some courageous, unpopular, honest, sometimes wrong-headed thing Truman had said or done, I from Isaacson's occasional savage ironies or Kissinger's pettiness and arrogance.

Her voice broke when she read to me of Truman's death, and my eyes filled with tears. I suppose it is some kind of ultimate estimate of the man that after reading Isaacson, I can imagine very few people on earth weeping at the death of Henry Kissinger.

One of Machiavelli's major principles was that about 50 percent of our lives is dictated by fortune, the completely unpredictable. Kissinger built his strategy on the notion of stable spheres of influence and his fear that Chinese communism would sweep Asia if Vietnam “fell.”

Neil Sheehan, author of *A Bright Shining Lie*, the best book I have read about the Vietnam War, has now published *After the War Was Over: Hanoi and Saigon*. It is a slim and brisk little volume of impressions from a trip he and his wife, Susan, made to Vietnam in the summer of 1989. His last visit had been as a correspondent early in the conflict.

What happened to the domino theory? “With the American enemy vanquished,” Sheehan says, “the historic animosity between Vietnam and China reasserted itself.”

Now, after a disastrous effort to install a centrally directed Communist economy, the Vietnamese are, like the Russians, converting to a free market with all the twists and tribulations such a conversion entails.

Some three million Vietnamese died in the war—three times as many as we have lost in all our wars combined. A poor country cannot easily recover from such carnage. Medical care is slight. Children are infected with everything from polio to Japanese encephalitis, which makes them go to sleep and die.

The Nixon-Kissinger Christmas bombings of 1972 scored a direct hit on

Bach Mai hospital and killed scores, possibly hundreds of civilians. The war museum in Hanoi includes “a large photograph of Nixon discussing strategy with Kissinger”—and the wreckage of a downed B-52 bomber.

When he first went to Vietnam, Sheehan says, “I was convinced that this was the right war in the right place.” Not until 1967, having seen “the United States blast and burn this country we were supposedly trying to save,” did he begin to see “the futility of our doomed venture.”

Now he saw the Vietnamese for the first time in charge of their own country. The “bloodbath” Nixon & Company predicted for Saigon and the south in

the event of a victory by Hanoi did not occur.

Life is hard, often dreary. Local corruption abounds. But very slowly, the Vietnamese are rebuilding their country. “Little by little” the bomb craters left by B-52s are being filled, and unexploded ordnance is being cleared away—although sometimes, as at Verdun or the Somme, old mines and shells blow up and kill people.

Sheehan ends his book in an overgrown and neglected military cemetery where lie the bodies of thousands of South Vietnamese soldiers who fought on “our” side. “In Washington,” he writes, “the names of each of our Vietnam dead were inscribed on a memorial

## Chapter & Verse

*A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words.*

A. E. Lindsay seeks the author, title, and complete text of a short poem he recalls from the late thirties containing the lines, “This febrifuge, this low light burning ... / And men dead years and years and years ago.” He also seeks identification of a passage in which a linguist offers an impression of certain languages as pronounced by native speakers, including “the light pattering run of French” and the “insinuating grace of Russian.”

Hallon Ladd hopes someone can furnish information about the four daughters of Edward D. Boit, whose portrait by John Singer Sargent belongs to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (which “does not respond to inquiries”). He already knows birth and death dates for all but the youngest.

Allyn French asks who observed that “some people live their lives by the light of the candle; others light the candle by the way they live their lives.”

“fake pearls ... real swine” (July-August). Sidney Halpern and Stephanie Lewis both ascribed to George Santayana the statement, “I became tired of casting imitation pearls before genuine swine,” when he was asked why he retired from teaching at Harvard. John Hughes and A. E. Lindsey reported hearing the same expression used to describe schools of education.

“the narcissism of minor differences” (July-August). Richard Hunt located this phrase in Sigmund Freud’s *Civilization and Its Discontents*, near the end of section 5.

“porpentine” (September-October). Paul Cantor was the first of many to suggest that “fretful” (see *Hamlet*, 1.5.20) rather than “bashful” was the correct adjective in the phrase under discussion. Should anyone locate a bashful porpentine, please let us know.

“the earth, like an orange, is round” (September-October). David Todd identified this slightly misquoted line from Arthur Hugh Clough’s poem “How in all wonder Columbus got over.”

“with nothing on at all” (September-October). Martin Cohen was the first of many to supply text for this passage, from the 1948 edition of *Song Fest*, published by the Intercollegiate Outing Club Association and edited by Dick and Beth Best ’47. Most respondents sing it to the tune of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” but Sally Barth learned it to the “The Merry Widow Waltz.”

“the best physician” (September-October). Anthony Shipps found this observation by Coleridge recorded by his nephews Henry Nelson Coleridge and John Taylor Coleridge on January 2, 1833, in *Table Talk*.

Inquiries and answers should be directed to Chapter and Verse, *Harvard Magazine*, 7 Ware Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138. Readers who wish to obtain the complete texts of poems or passages identified for others are asked to include a stamped, self-addressed, legal-sized envelope with their requests.

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Dear Jr. and Mrs Kissinger,

thank you for your letter of July 2.

I am glad to confirm that Adele and I will join the Committee and reserve six individual tickets at the luncheon honoring Giovanni and Marella Agnelli.

I look forward to having the pleasure to meet you personally.

Rodrigo Rodriquez

HENRY A. KISSINGER

March 18, 1992

Dear Felix:

I appreciated having an opportunity
to read the text of your recent remarks
before the Economy Strategy Institute.
It was of course of much interest, and
you were thoughtful to send me a copy.

Hoping to see you soon,

Mr. Felix Rohatyn
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February 12, 1992

Dr. Henry Kissinger
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350 Park Avenue, 26th Floor
New York, NY 10022

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

It is with great pleasure that I congratulate you on your selection as a 1992 Horatio Alger Award recipient. I look forward to personally welcoming you into the Association, and hope that you will be able to participate in the many activities planned for our members and awardees in conjunction with the Awards Dinner.

As a member of the Association since 1963, I have always believed in and supported the Association's educational programs and scholarship mission. I am sure you will be equally proud of our programs as you become familiar with them.

Again, congratulations on being selected as a 1992 Horatio Alger Awardee, and I look forward to seeing you in Washington in April.

Sincerely,

John W. Rollins

HENRY A. KISSINGER

December 21, 1992

Dear Chairman Rong:

I have just recently returned to my
office and want to drop this note of thanks
to you and your wife for again providing such
warm hospitality during my recent visit to
Beijing. It was good to see you again and to
have the chance to talk during such an
excellent meal. And I enjoyed hearing a bit
about your business plans. I will get back
to you with some ideas in due course.

With appreciation and high regard.

Mr. Rong Yiren
Chairman
China International Trust and
Investment Corporation
19 Jian Guo Men Ywai Da Jia
Beijing
People's Republic of China

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May 5, 1992

Dear Henry,

I certainly am glad you had to leave early. That gave me a chance to talk behind your back. So I made a speech telling everybody just what I thought of you.

And I tell you I let you have it -- everything you had coming. Namely, that you were the best servant of government that I have ever come across in this or any other country, that I consider it an enormous privilege to know you and call you friend and that you are as warm as you are wise and witty. So there, Kissinger, take that.

I am certain you know what your being there, and speaking of me, meant to me. I was so proud my wife and sons were there to hear.

With respect, affection and thanks,

HENRY A. KISSINGER

November 16, 1992

Dear Henry:

Re: <u>Caroline Cruise</u>

I know you are not the proper person to whom to
address this letter, but I'd appreciate your
passing it on to whomever is in charge of fresh-
man admissions.

It concerns the application of Caroline Cruise for
early admission next fall. I do not know the young
lady personally, but I have great faith in the
good judgement of Lee Huebner, Publisher of the
International Herald Tribune in Paris, who has
written on her behalf. The Huebners, who know her
well, tell me she is an exceptional student with
many interests and talents who would excel at
Harvard. With so many outstanding applicants
each year, whatever you can do help insure that
Miss Cruise's application receives careful atten-
tion will be greatly appreciated.

Nancy joins me in sending our warmest good wishes.

Professor Henry Rosovsky
University Professor
Department of Economics
Harvard University
218 Littauer Center
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Attention: Mr. William R. Fitzsimmons

Dear Mr. Fitzsimmons:

I am pleased to write in support of the application of Caroline Cruise for admission to Harvard College next fall. And I do so with very special enthusiasm.

As a Harvard University alumnus (M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1968), I was particularly pleased to learn that Miss Cruise considers Harvard to be her top choice among the schools to which she is applying. My experience at Harvard also included several years as a Teaching Fellow in History and a resident tutor (at Dunster House) and I feel strongly that Miss Cruise is precisely the sort of student who would take unusual advantage of the unique opportunities which Harvard offers and who would also make an outstanding contribution to the school and her classmates.

Miss Cruise was born in Paris and has attended bilingual schools here since age three, compiling an outstanding academic record. She is perfectly at home in both French and English. Her parents are native Americans, but now live permanently in France.

I met Miss Cruise and her family shortly after moving to Paris some thirteen years ago. My family and I have followed her school career closely and have witnessed with pride and joy her many impressive accomplishments.

Caroline is not only an outstanding student but also a very fine person -- intelligent, serious, honest, both with herself and with others, considerate and reflective. She is able to establish a comfortable rapport with people of many backgrounds and ages. She is a close friend of our young children and has a wide range of friends of her own age. At the same time, she also has developed an excellent relationship with her parents' contemporaries.

Caroline has also been active outside the classroom, where her activities range from tennis, riding and other sports to tutoring younger students. She has been particularly active in community service projects, including a city wide drug education program.

Caroline Cruise would, I know, make a valuable contribution to the life of Harvard College and I am pleased and proud to recommend her to you.

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September 29, 1992

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Just a word to say how impressed I was by your testimony before the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. I think your appearance has done much to educate the public mind (which, I suspect, all along has been at odds with the Committee) on the issue of POWs and MIAs.

Your testimony was powerful and of great historical interest. And your steadfast adherence to the historical record and the policies associated with your tenure at the White House and the State Department deserves high marks in my view. All too often, it seems, officials and former public officials forget or walk away from positions with which they were associated the moment they are challenged. I applaud you for not going down that road.

Let me just add that it was a pleasure and an honor to help you prepare, however small my contribution.

With every good wish,

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

HENRY A. KISSINGER

September 3, 1992

Dear Alan:

My Director of Security, Jerry Glazebrook, also does some out-
side consulting on security matters for a small number of
private and corporate clients, one of which is NBC. While at
the Barcelona Olympics for NBC, Jerry and his associate met
Wayne Baruch and reiterated their interest in being considered
for security services for the World Cup games. With many years
of experience and having handled security in both Barcelona
and Seoul, Jerry believes they could offer the World Cup a
valuable service.

Jerry has been with me for eight years, and I have complete
confidence in him. His credentials are the finest. A
former member of the Special Operations Command and Chief of
the protective team for the American Ambassador in South Viet-
nam during the troubled years, Jerry is well versed in all
aspects of dignitary protection, crowd control, emergency
services and the like. He has extensive contacts within the
local law enforcement agencies in all the venue cities and an
exceptional ability to know who to go to to get things done
correctly.

Jerry would like to arrange an appointment with Mr. Baruch to
talk about the needs of the World Cup and what he and his
team could accomplish. If this could be arranged I would much
appreciate it.

Mr. Alan I. Rothenberg
Chairman & CEO
World Cup USA 1994, Inc.
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