DAVID C. TREEN

• THIRD DISTRICT, LOUISIANA

MEMBER
COMMITTEE ON
ARMED SERVICES

MEMBER
COMMITTEE ON
MERCHANT MARINE AND
FISHERIES

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

TELEPHONE: CODE 202: 225-4031

DISTRICT OFFICES:
300 AMERICAN BANK & TRUST BUILDING
HOUMA, LOUISIANA 70360
TELEPHONE: 504-876-3033

4900 VETERANS MEMORIAL BOULEVARD
METAIRIE, LOUISIANA 70003
TELEPHONE: 504-889-2303-4

Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515

August 3, 1973

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Assistant to the President
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

I am indeed pleased that you have accepted the invitation to be the principal speaker for the Distinguished Guests Banquet on Monday evening, August 20, during the 74th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States being held in New Orleans, Louisiana.

I will be attending this function on Monday evening as a head table guest and, as the sole Republican from Louisiana in the Congress and as the Republican National Committeeman from my state, I would like to express my personal welcome and appreciation of your acceptance of this engagement in my state. I would also like to assure you that it would be my pleasure to accommodate you in any way during your visit. I will be in the state during the August recess period.

With very kind regard and looking forward to seeing you in New Orleans on the 20th, I am

DCT:mh

KISSINGER, HENRY /AWARDS

PAUL L. GETZOFF, M. D.
435 NORTH BEDFORD DRIVE
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA 90210
CRESTVIEW 3-4655
UROLOGY

August 13, 1973

PERSONAL

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

Dear Doctor Kissinger:

On behalf of the Westside Chapter of the Kidney Foundation, I
am pleased and gratified to acknowledge your most generous do-
nations of $1,000, a portion of your Independence Day Award
and $500 in connection with the Theodore Roosevelt Award.

Mrs. Getzoff and Samantha Eggar, co-chairmen of Life Member-
ship for the Chapter, are equally pleased with the generosity of
your sharing portions of your awards with this most worthy en-
deavor.

I know that you share our feeling that there is no better business
in the world than the business of saving lives, and your gifts
will aid immeasurably toward that goal in connection with com-
batting kidney disease.

I proffer hearty congratulations to you for being the deserving
recipient of these awards, and deepest appreciation from all of
the dedicated people working for the Kidney Foundation.

PLG:MM

RECEIVED
AUG 2 1 1973

CENTRAL FILES

KISSINGER, HENRY

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

July 10, 1973

Dear Charles:

As Mr. Campbell told you last week I have decided
that I cannot accept any prize in the form of money.
I prefer not to take any additional reward for doing
my duty. At the same time I want you to know how
much the award means to me and how grateful I am
for it.

I am returning the check. I would appreciate it very
much if you would give it to the following two charities:

$1000 to the West Side Chapter, Kidney Foundation
1281 Westwood Drive, Suite 200
Los Angeles, California 90024
Attn: Mr. Paul Getzoff

$4000 to the Sloan Kettering Cancer Foundation
410 East 68th Street
New York, New York 10021

I would appreciate it if the Institute for Public Service
could avoid showing on their books having given me the
check since I am not planning to take an income tax
deduction for it.

Mr. Charles Bartlett
1366 National Press Building
Washington, D. C.

RECEIVED

JUL 1 1 1973

CENTRAL FILES

PROF. DR E. H. VAN DER BEUGEL

DEN HAAG. August 20, 1973.

SMIDSWATER 1
TEL. 070-653850

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

EXPRESSE.

Dear Mrs. Mosbacher,

I received your letter of August 10, 1973, in which you let me know that on the evening of September 25th my friend Henry A. Kissinger will receive the HOPE Award for International Understanding.

I cannot think of any occasion which I would like so very much to attend. I am linked to Dr. Kissinger not only with great bonds of personal friendship, but I am an unreserved and very great admirer of his and I am delighted that he will receive this great token of distinction.

I cross the ocean many times a year but unfortunately the days of September 24 and September 25 are already filled with obligations on this side of the ocean which I cannot possibly cancel.

I hope you will understand my deep regret not to be present but also the reasons for it. The transatlantic crossing unfortunately takes at least two days. Be assured that during that dinner my thoughts will be with you.

Sincerely yours,

Mrs. Emil Mosbacher, Jr.
The Hope Award Dinner
Eastern Regional Office
Time & Life Building
Rockefeller Center
NEW YORK, N.Y. 10020
U.S.A.

RECEIVED
SEP 5 1973

CENTRAL FILES

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

AWARDS

INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM ASSOCIATION

(Founded by Daniel Webster in 1831 as The American Lyceum Association)

2564 BERKSHIRE ROAD • CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OHIO 44106

Director General and Board Chairman
DAN TYLER MOORE

Former President Vice-President
GLENN SEABORG

Vice-President
SENATOR CLARENCE DILL

President
LOWELL THOMAS

Retiring President Vice-President
ART LINKLETTER

Former President Vice-President
VICTOR BORGE

August 8, 1973

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D. C.

My dear Dr. Kissinger,

Your presentation after accepting the Theodore Roosevelt Award at the
IPA Convention the night of August 2, 1973 was a real delight and was
hugely enjoyed and appreciated not only by our membership, but by the
millions who saw it broadcast and reported on the Today Show and other
news media.

Our members, because of their Platform background and because of their
having heard almost everyone of importance on every conceivable subject,
are more than most groups connoisseurs in the field of oratory and public
speaking. The importance of your speech (which we would greatly appreciate
having a copy) with its exciting philosophy of action and its flashes of
humor, intrigued everyone, and particularly Alice Longworth and Archie
Roosevelt. They decided that Theodore Roosevelt would have categorized
the whole affair, and particularly your speech, as "bully."

In a five-day period that included Senator Sam Ervin, Jack Anderson, James
Kilpatrick, Ralph Nader, Phyllis Schlafly, Mayor Thomas Bradley, Erma
Bombeck, Dr. George Crile, Ted Mack, Artie Shaw and many others of
paramount importance, you were a shining star in what many say is the
most striking convocation seen in Washington in this generation. I am enclosing
for your interest a copy of the program and a list of the names and addresses
of those who made presentations.

Those immortals of the Platform who have received major IPA awards (those
listed on the back of our letterhead) have each received tiny gold pins,
designating the year in which they received the award. The pin, a tiny gold
'73 in your case, entitles them to the privileges of special IPA lifetime
membership without obligation of any kind. If ever there should come an
in future years when you or your objectives could be forwarded in any way

RECEIVED

AUG 14 1973

CENTRAL FILES

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by an appearance before the unique "multiplying audience" of our annual
forum, with its attendant coverage by the TV, radio, newspaper, and other
media, it is your right only to express the wish and what you should now
consider as your forum is at your disposal. We are enclosing the pin.

The American Platform and the IPA are proud indeed to salute you as the
first winner of the Theodore Roosevelt Award, "The Most Outstanding
Official in the United States Government." We are going to be hard put
to it in the future to find your equal.

I am enclosing copies of letters sent to the West Side Chapter, Kidney
Foundation in Los Angeles and the Sloan Kettering Cancer Foundation in
New York City, which are self-explanatory. You should be hearing from
them.

DTM/sc

Encls:

1973 ANNUAL CONVENTION

July 30-August 3, 1973

"THE BEST SPEAKER" BUREAUS WHOSE TALENT HAS BEEN
ACCEPTED FOR THE CONVENTION PROGRAM

BANTAM LECTURE BUREAU (Vicki Faerstein)
666 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10019 (212) 245-8172

HARRY BYRD KLINE CELEBRITY BUREAU (Harry Byrd Kline)
P.O. Drawer 87, Dallas, Texas 75221 (214) 661-9201

PROGRAM ASSOCIATES (Robert Papworth)
1225 First Nat'l. Bank Bldg., Utica, N.Y. 13501 (315) 732-2121

ROYCE CARLTON, INC. (Carlton Sedgeley)
866 United Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017 (212) 355-7931

RALPH WINDOES TRAVELOGUE, INC. (A. Cecil Houghton)
1326 McKay Tower, Grand Rapids, Mich. 49502 (616) 459-9597

CONVENTION COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN

<table><tr><td>Mrs. Drew Pearson</td><td>Drew Pearson Award</td></tr><tr><td>Eileen Hall</td><td>Previews, Welcoming and Rendezvous</td></tr><tr><td>Anna Francis Houston</td><td>Information</td></tr><tr><td>Lou LuTour</td><td>Poetry</td></tr><tr><td>Elizabeth Moore</td><td>Art</td></tr><tr><td>Dan Tyler Moore III</td><td>Convention Administration, Banquet Chairman</td></tr><tr><td>Joseph Ferrier</td><td>Display Booths</td></tr><tr><td>Nick O'Malley</td><td>Transportation, Red Carpet</td></tr><tr><td>Lowell Thomas</td><td>Convention Planning</td></tr><tr><td>Don Price</td><td>Admissions Control</td></tr><tr><td>Shirley Duncan</td><td>Embassy Tours</td></tr><tr><td>Anna Blair Miller</td><td>Registrar and Between the Acts Coffee House</td></tr><tr><td>Eleanor Sikes Peters</td><td>Volunteers and Between the Acts Coffee House</td></tr><tr><td>Rosa Lobe</td><td>Music Director</td></tr><tr><td>Suzy Sutton</td><td>Hospitality</td></tr><tr><td>Paul Leonard</td><td>Publicity</td></tr><tr><td>Mildred Deutsch</td><td>Between the Acts Coffee House Co-Chairman</td></tr><tr><td>Ted Mack</td><td>Talent Workshops</td></tr><tr><td>Harry Byrd Kline</td><td>Program Control</td></tr></table>

1973

PERFORMERS APPEARING AT OUR ANNUAL CONVENTION

Jean Adams
(Available through Harry Byrd Kline
Celebrity Bureau, Inc.)

Walter E. Cummings
(Available through Program
Associates)

Jack Anderson
7300 Burdette Court
Bethesda, Maryland 20034

Katherine de Jersey
John Hancock Center
Studio 5303
175 East Delaware Place
Chicago, Illinois 60611

Erma Bombeck
6301 North 38th Street
Paradise Valley, Arizona 85253

Mildred Dilling
Elwood Emerick Management
Wellington Hotel, Suite 215
Seventh Ave. and West 57th St.
New York, N.Y. 10019

Mayor Thomas Bradley
City Hall
Los Angeles, Calif. 90012

Jeane Dixon
1144 - 18th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Robert Brouwer
(Available through Ralph Windoes
Travelogues, Inc.)

Senator Sam Ervin
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dr. Benjamin Byrd
2122 West End Avenue
Nashville, Tenn. 37203

Lewis W. Foy
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
701 East Third Street
Bethlehem, Penn. 18016

Don Cooper
Box 197
St. Regis, Montana 59866

Generation Gap
Mrs. Wilma Tress
3716 Washington Pike
Knoxville, Tenn. 37917

Dr. George Crile
2060 Kent
Cleveland Hts., Ohio 44106

1973

Gordon F. Gray
Space Division
North American Rockwell
12214 Lakewood Blvd.
Downey, Calif. 90241

Gundella the Witch
Box 434
Garden City, Mich.

Wilma Scott Heide
N.O.W.
1957 East 73rd Street
Chicago, Ill. 60649

Bill Hein
P.O. Box 389
Unionville, Connecticut 06085

Dr. Jeffrey Hollander
3067 N. Hackett Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211

Arthur J. Holst
(Available through Harry Byrd Kline
Celebrity Bureau, Inc.)

Sean Hopkins
Irish Affairs Bureau
3408 Bradley Lane
Washington, D.C. 20015

James Javore & Stephanie Sundine
932½ Judson
Evanston, Illinois 60202

Doug Jones
The Penthouse
28 East 16th Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202

Christine Jorgensen
(Available through Bantam
Lecture Bureau)

James Kilpatrick
412 Princess Street
Alexandria, Virginia 22314

Henry Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D.C.

Rene Galland Lewis
14110 South Park
Cleveland, Ohio 44120

Gerry McClintic
301 Mulberry Drive
Pomona, Calif. 91767

Ted Mack
Steinway Hall, Suite 1102
111 West 57th Street
New York, N.Y. 10019

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OFFICIAL PROGRAM

1973 CONVENTION

of the

Sheraton Park Hotel
Washington D. C.

July 30 - August 3, 1973

ADMISSION TO ALL EVENTS BY BADGE ONLY

Pick up your banquet tickets at the IPA Registration Booths in the Cotillion Foyer Monday if possible. Last summer, as in previous years, many were unable to get tickets at the last moment and missed some of the greatest features of the convention. The hotel must be given an estimate Tuesday morning so get your dinner tickets as soon as you register.

Two all expense round trip tickets for the IPA Caribbean Cruise in September (see details in TALENT Magazine) will be given away the evening of Friday, August 3. HOWEVER, YOU MUST BE PRESENT IN PERSON IN THE ROOM AT THE TIME OF THE DRAWING TO WIN, SO BE sure to be present in person at the Friday sessions if you want to be in this important drawing.

MONDAY, JULY 30, 1973

<table><tr><td>9:00 - 5:00 PM</td><td>REGISTRATION FOR CONVENTION</td><td>Cotillion Foyer</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>BOOTHS AND EXHIBITS</td><td>Esplanade and Florentine Foyers</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Joseph Ferrier, Chairman</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>BETWEEN-THE-ACTS Coffee House</td><td>Potomac Lounge</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Eleanor Sikes Peters, Chairman</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Anna Blair Miller and Mildred Deutsch, Co-Chairmen</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>11:00 AM</td><td>COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN'S BUSINESS LUNCHEON</td><td>Annex Suite G-600</td></tr><tr><td>12:45 - 2:30 PM</td><td>SIGHTSEEING TOUR - by bus, past Watergate, White House, Embassy Row. Guided tours of Kennedy Center, Islamic Center and Magnificent new Gothic Cathedral</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Shirley Duncan, Chairman</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>12:45 - 2:00 PM</td><td>Bus tour to National Gallery of Art for artist group - lunch at museum</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2:00 PM</td><td>NEW BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING</td><td>Annex Suite G-600</td></tr><tr><td>2:30 - 5:30 PM</td><td>SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS</td><td>Cotillion Room</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Presented by Previews Committee</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>"The Italy I Love" - Gloria Braggiotti Etting</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>"Dylan Thomas Anthology" - Harvard Gregory</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>"Nepal" - Film Lecture by Chris Borden</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>"Art of Chinese Language" - Professor Richard Woo</td><td></td></tr></table>

CONVENTION COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN

<table><tr><td>Mrs. Drew Pearson</td><td>DREW PEARSON AWARD</td></tr><tr><td>Eileen Hall</td><td>PREVIEWS, WELCOMING &amp; RENDEZVOUS</td></tr><tr><td>Anna Frances Houston</td><td>INFORMATION</td></tr><tr><td>Lou LuTour</td><td>POETRY</td></tr><tr><td>Elizabeth Moore</td><td>ART</td></tr><tr><td>Dan Tyler Moore III</td><td>CONVENTION ADMINISTRATION, BANQUET CHAIRMAN</td></tr><tr><td>Joseph Ferrier</td><td>DISPLAY BOOTH</td></tr><tr><td>Nick O'Malley</td><td>TRANSPORTATION, RED CARPET</td></tr><tr><td>Lowell Thomas</td><td>CONVENTION PLANNING</td></tr><tr><td>Don Price</td><td>ADMISSIONS CONTROL</td></tr><tr><td>Shirley Duncan</td><td>EMBASSY TOURS</td></tr><tr><td>Anna Blair Miller</td><td>REGISTRAR &amp; BETWEEN-THE-ACTS COFFEE HOUSE</td></tr><tr><td>Eleanor Sikes Peters</td><td>VOLUNTEERS &amp; BETWEEN-THE-ACTS COFFEE HOUSE</td></tr><tr><td>Rosa Lobe</td><td>MUSIC DIRECTOR</td></tr><tr><td>Susy Sutton</td><td>HOSPITALITY</td></tr><tr><td>Mildred Deutsch</td><td>BETWEEN-THE-ACTS COFFEE HOUSE CO-CHAIRMAN</td></tr><tr><td>Paul Leonard</td><td>PUBLICITY</td></tr><tr><td>Ted Mack</td><td>TALENT WORKSHOP</td></tr><tr><td>Harry Byrd Kline</td><td>PROGRAM CONTROL</td></tr></table>

"THE BEST SPEAKER" BUREAUS WHOSE TALENT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED FOR THE 1973 ANNUAL IPA CONVENTION

BANTAM LECTURE BUREAU (Vicki Faerstein)
666 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10019 (212) 245-8172

HARRY BYRD KLINE CELEBRITY BUREAU (Harry Byrd Kline)
P. O. Drawyer 87, Dallas, Texas 75221 (214) 661-9201

PROGRAM ASSOCIATES (Robert Papworth)
1225 First Nat'l. Bank Bldg., Utica, N. Y. 13501 (315) 732-2121

ROYCE CARLTON, INC. (Carlton Sedgeley)
866 United Nations Plaza, New York, N. Y. 10017 (212) 355-7931

(see separate program for Previews)

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

July 31, 1973

**MEMORANDUM FOR:** HENRY A. KISSINGER

**FROM:** RICHARD P. CAMPBELL

**SUBJECT:** International Platform Association Award Dinner, August 2, 1973

**Time and Place:** Sheraton-Park Hotel
6:30 p.m. - Cocktails
7:15 p.m. - Dinner (black tie)

**Press Coverage:** Heavy TV and radio as well as normal press coverage. TV will be sound on film.

**Your Remarks:** You are to make 10 minutes of remarks and field questions (which have been submitted in writing) for 10 minutes before dinner.

**The Award:** The award is the Theodore Roosevelt Award for "The Most Outstanding Official in the U. S. Government." It will be presented by Alice Roosevelt Longworth with Lowell Thomas acting as Master of Ceremonies. It has not been announced that you are to be the recipient of the Award. Last year's award went to President Nixon. Other previous award winners are:

* Lowell Thomas
* John F. Kennedy
* Lyndon Johnson
* Ralph Nader
* Bob Hope
* Lawrence Spivak
* Admiral Rickover
* Victor Borge

**The Audience:** The audience will consist of 1,000 - 1,500 officers and directors in organizations throughout the country (executive and service

**_The Audience:_** The audience will consist of 1,000 - 1,200 officers and

Victor Budge
Admiral Rickover
Lawrence Spivak
Bop Hebe
Ralph Nader
Phndon Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Lowell Thomas

Other previous award winners are:
recipient of the Award. Last year's award went to President Nixon
of Ceremonies.. It has not been announced that you are to be the
by Alice Long - left Longworth with Lowell Thomas acting as Master
Most Outstanding Official in the U.S. Government." It will be presented
**_The Award_** The award is the Theodore Roosevelt Award for "The
dinner.",

**_Your Remarks:_** You are to make 10 minutes of remarks and field
questions and answers for - submitted in writing) for 10 minutes before
dinner.

TA will be read on film.

**_Press Coverage:_** Heavy TV and radio as well as normal press coverage.

3:12 p.m. - Dinner (black tie)

6:30 p.m. - Cocktails

**_Time and Place:_** Sheraton-Bank Hotel

**SUBJECT:** Award Dinner, August 5, 1953
International Platform Association

**FROM:** RICHARD P. CAMPBELL

**MEMORANDUM FOR:** HENRY V. KISSINGER

July 31, 1953

KISSINGER, HENRY V.

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clubs, men and women's clubs, forums, town halls, chambers
of commerce, colleges, etc.) that import speakers from out of town.

**The Organization:** The International Platform Association has since its formation by Daniel Webster 150 years ago been the professional association of those who run the thousands of organizations which compose the American Lecture Platform. Its nationwide membership is close to 13,000. Every U.S. president has belonged to the IPA and many have addressed it.

and many have addressed it.

It is close to 13,000. Every U.S. president has belonged to the IPV

It compiles the American Literature Platform. Its nationwide membership

It has association of those who run the thousands of organizations which

Its formation by Daniel Webster 120 years ago was the professional

Clubs, men and women's clubs, forums, town halls, chambers

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KISSINGER, HENRY A. AWARDS

July 19, 1973

Dear Mr. Moore:

In reply to your letter of July 11, Dr. Kissinger
would like to have the honorarium forwarded to the
following charities:

$500 to the West Side Chapter, Kidney Foundation
1281 Westwood Drive, Suite 300
Los Angeles, California 90024
Attn: Mr. Paul Getzoff

$1000 to the Sloan Kettering Cancer Foundation
410 East 68th Street
New York, New York 10021

I would appreciate it if the International Platform
Association could avoid showing any payment to Dr.
Kissinger for income tax purposes.

I appreciate your cooperation and look forward to
August 2.

Best wishes,

Richard O. Campbell
Administrative Assistant
to Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

X
Mr. Dan T. Moore
Director General
International Platform Association
2564 Berkshire Road
Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44106

["OFFICERS", "<table><tr><td>Director General and Board Chairman</td><td>Dan Tyler Moore</td></tr><tr><td>President</td><td>Lowell Thomas</td></tr><tr><td>Retiring President</td><td>Vice President</td><td>Art Linkletter</td></tr><tr><td>Former President</td><td>Vice President</td><td>Victor Borge</td></tr><tr><td>Vice President</td><td></td><td>Senator Clarence Dill</td></tr><tr><td>Treasurer</td><td></td><td>Anna Blair Miller</td></tr><tr><td>Secretary</td><td></td><td>Edna Sinclair</td></tr></table>", "BOARD OF GOVERNORS", "Lowell Thomas\nAmbassador Enrique Tejera-Paris\nDr. Glenn Seaborg\nJack Anderson\nAmbassador Julio Sanjines-Goytia\nSir William Samson Moore\nHal Holbrook\nSenator Clarence Dill\nJames Kilpatrick\nCongressman Charles A. Vanik\nVictor Borge\nArt Linkletter", "Mrs. Drew Pearson\nWilliam McVey\nDan Tyler Moore\nAlice Longworth\nMary I. Jeffries\nRosa Lobe\nLou LuTour\nMayor Carl Stokes\nDr. Cleo Dawson\nEmil Weddige\nBenjamin Franklin\nEleanor Sikes Peters", "Don Wolfe\nJoseph Ferrier\nEileen Hall\nEdmund Thornton\nAndre Pacatte\nArthur Taylor\nEverette Peterson\nSalom Rizk\nAnna Blair Miller\nEdna Sinclair\nHarry Byrd Kline\nTed Mack", "Neill O'Malley\nAnna Frances Houston\nPaul Leonard\nFrank McKenzie\nDee Church\nDonald C. Price\nSuzy Sutton\nGordon F. Gray\nHerbert A. Greenwald", "Daniel Webster, Lowell Thomas, Mark Twain, President Theodore Roosevelt, Alice Longworth, Walter Lippmann, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Senator Barry Goldwater, William Jennings Bryan, Winston Churchill, President John F. Kennedy, Drew Pearson, President Herbert Hoover, President Woodrow Wilson, Dr. Wernher VonBraun, Hugh Downs, Attorney General John N. Mitchell, Walter Cronkite, Ralph Nader, Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Bernard Baruch, J. Edgar Hoover, Mayor John Lindsay, Senator William Fulbright, David Brinkley, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Clare Booth Luce, Glenn Seaborg, Robert Goulet, Major General Robert H. Booth, Art Linkletter, President Harry Truman, Vice-President Spiro Agnew, Jack Anderson, Johnny Cash, President William Howard Taft, Avery Brundage, President Richard M. Nixon, Dr. Walter Alvarez, John Wayne, Colonel Neil A. Armstrong, Chief Justice Earl Warren, President Rene Barrientos, Art Buchwald, Madame Schumann-Heink, Otto Preminger, Victor Borge, Dr. Christiaan Neethling Barnard, Eliot Ness, Queen Farida, Secretary Robert Weaver, Al Capp, Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, Jeane Dixon, Hon. Hale Boggs, Vincent Price, Averell Harriman, Johnny Desmond, Clark Mollenhoff, \"Dear Abby\" Van Buren, General Matthew B. Ridgway, Earl Wilson, Colonel Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Senator Stuart Symington, Martin Luther King, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Olivia DeHavilland, General James A. Van Fleet, Senator John G. Tower, Frank Mankiewicz, Senator Ralph Yarborough, Governor Ronald Reagon, Congressman Gerald R. Ford, Colonel Donn F. Eisele, Jose Ferrer, The Right Honorable Sir Roy Welensky, K.C.M.G., Ray Bolger, Eliot Janeway, Richard Arlen, Frankie Laine, Winthrop Rockefeller, Polly Bergen, Dr. Michael DeBakey, Ambassador Charles Malik, Hubert Humphrey, Charlton Heston, Admiral Hyman Rickover, Dr. Charles Mayo, Ted Mack, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Raymond F. Loewy, Tom Landry, Marquis of Merry del Val, Gloria Swanson, Rudy Vallee, Sir William Samson Moore, Edgar Bergen, Senator Enrique Tejera Paris, Dean Rusk, James R. Shepley, Ralph J. Bunche, Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla Casas, Margaret Mitchell, Henry H. Wilson, Mitch Miller, Senator Warren C. Magnuson, George Romney, Martin J. Moynihan, Hal Holbrook, John Byrnes, Vaughn Monroe, Huntington Hartford, Pat O'Brien, Ambassador Clare H. Timberlake, Rex Harrison, Ambassador Fulton Freeman, Randolph Churchill, James Kilpatrick, George Hamilton, Roy Wilkins, Senator Wayne Morse, John Scott, Shelly Winters, Harry Golden, Secretary Stewart Udall, Marian Anderson, Senator Charles B. Avy Gardner, Mayor Walter Washington, Betty Furness, Joan Farness, Walter Farness, Walter F

["OFFICERS", "<table><tr><td>Director General and Board Chairman</td><td>Dan Tyler Moore</td></tr><tr><td>President</td><td>Lowell Thomas</td></tr><tr><td>Retiring President</td><td>Vice President</td><td>Art Linkletter</td></tr><tr><td>Former President</td><td>Vice President</td><td>Victor Borge</td></tr><tr><td>Vice President</td><td></td><td>Senator Clarence Dill</td></tr><tr><td>Treasurer</td><td></td><td>Anna Blair Miller</td></tr><tr><td>Secretary</td><td></td><td>Edna Sinclair</td></tr></table>", "BOARD OF GOVERNORS", "Lowell Thomas\nAmbassador Enrique Tejera-Paris\nDr. Glenn Seaborg\nJack Anderson\nAmbassador Julio Sanjines-Goytia\nSir William Samson Moore\nHal Holbrook\nSenator Clarence Dill\nJames Kilpatrick\nCongressman Charles A. Vanik\nVictor Borge\nArt Linkletter", "Mrs. Drew Pearson\nWilliam McVey\nDan Tyler Moore\nAlice Longworth\nMary I. Jeffries\nRosa Lobe\nLou LuTour\nMayor Carl Stokes\nDr. Cleo Dawson\nEmil Weddige\nBenjamin Franklin\nEleanor Sikes Peters", "Don Wolfe\nJoseph Ferrier\nEileen Hall\nEdmund Thornton\nAndre Pacatte\nArthur Taylor\nEverette Peterson\nSalom Rizk\nAnna Blair Miller\nEdna Sinclair\nHarry Byrd Kline\nTed Mack", "Neill O'Malley\nAnna Frances Houston\nPaul Leonard\nFrank McKenzie\nDee Church\nDonald C. Price\nSuzy Sutton\nGordon F. Gray\nHerbert A. Greenwald", "Daniel Webster, Lowell Thomas, Mark Twain, President Theodore Roosevelt, Alice Longworth, Walter Lippmann, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Senator Barry Goldwater, William Jennings Bryan, Winston Churchill, President John F. Kennedy, Drew Pearson, President Herbert Hoover, President Woodrow Wilson, Dr. Wernher Von Braun, Hugh Downs, Attorney General John N. Mitchell, Walter Cronkite, Ralph Nader, Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Bernard Baruch, J. Edgar Hoover, Mayor John Lindsay, Senator William Fulbright, David Brinkley, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Clare Booth Luce, Glenn Seaborg, Robert Goulet, Major General Robert H. Booth, Art Linkletter, President Harry Truman, Vice-President Spiro Agnew, Jack Anderson, Johnny Cash, President William Howard Taft, Avery Brundage, President Richard M. Nixon, Dr. Walter Alvarez, John Wayne, Colonel Neil A. Armstrong, Chief Justice Earl Warren, President Rene Barrientos, Art Buchwald, Madame Schumann-Heink, Otto Preminger, Victor Borge, Dr. Christiaan Neethling Barnard, Eliot Ness, Queen Farida, Secretary Robert Weaver, Al Capp, Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, Jeane Dixon, Hon. Hale Boggs, Vincent Price, Averell Harriman, Johnny Desmond, Clark Mollenhoff, \"Dear Abby\" Van Buren, General Matthew B. Ridgway, Earl Wilson, Colonel Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Senator Stuart Symington, Martin Luther King, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Olivia DeHavilland, General James A. Van Fleet, Senator John G. Tower, Frank Mankiewicz, Senator Ralph Yarborough, Governor Ronald Reagon, Congressman Gerald R. Ford, Colonel Don F. Eisele, Jose Ferrer, The Right Honorable Sir Roy Welensky, K.C.M.G., Ray Bolger, Elliot Janeway, Richard Arlen, Frankie Laine, Winthrop Rockefeller, Polly Bergen, Dr. Michael DeBakey, Ambassador Charles Malik, Hubert Humphrey, Charlton Heston, Admiral Hyman Rickover, Dr. Charles Mayo, Ted Mack, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Raymond F. Loewy, Tom Landry, Marquis of Merry del Val, Gloria Swanson, Rudy Vallée, Sir William Samson Moore, Edgar Bergen, Senator Enrique Tejera Paris, Dean Rusk, James R. Shepley, Ralph J. Bunche, Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla Senaca, Margaret Mitchell, Henry H. Wilson, Mitch Miller, Senator Warren C. Magnuson, George Romney, Martin J. Moylan, Hal Holbrook, John Byrnes, Vaughn Monroe, Huntington Hartford, Pat O'Brien, Ambassador Cláire H. Timberlake, Rex Harrison, Ambassador Fulton Freeman, Randolph Churchill, James Kitpatrick, George Hamilton, Roy Wilkins, Senator Wayne Morse, John Scall, Shelly Winters, Harry Golden, Secretary Stewart Udall, Marian Anderson, Senator Charles Parry, Ava Gardner, Mayor Walter Washington, Betty Furness, Joan Fontaine, John Cameron Swayze, Luis Farre, Cyrus S. Eaton, Jerry Klutz, Dinah Shore, Ambassador Francisco R. Lima, Michael MacDougall, John P. Roche, David Schoenbrug, Novice G. Fawcett, Arnold Gingrich, Jack Heinz, Van Johnson, Patriarch Mar Eshai Shihem XXIII, Joseph S. Clark, Justice William O. Douglas, Ambassador H. Knappstein, Fulton Lewis III, Honorable Sol Linowitz, William Manchester, Senator Thomas Kuchel, J. Edward Day, David McDonald, John Gardner, William Count Basie, Senator Jennings Randolph, Frank Capra, Senator Allen Eltender, Ambassador Talal Al-Ghoussein, Henry J. Anslinger, Senator Eugene McCarthy, Senator Birch Bayh, Paul Anka, Honorable Alan Bible, Shelley Barren, Senator Frank Church, Harman Wouk, Ann Gührling, Clarence Carter, Betta Davis, Robert Young, Lilly Dache, Geoffrey O'Hara, George Creel, Jean Crawford, Bob Considine, Mayor Sam Yorly, Elton Maxwell, Ambassador William Warneek, Margaret Cuttling, The Honorable Gale McGee, Artie Shaw, Luvi Pearson, Senator William F. Knowland, Ozzie Nelson, Senator Joseph D. Tydings, Allen Saunders, John Scarno, Rear Admiral Edgar Batchelder, Ambassador Hugo B. Margin, Judge Florence E. Allen, Senator Frank Carlson, Ambassador Henry A. Bynide, Justice Francis H. Becker, Governor John A. Love, Ambassador John Mains, Calin, Judge Beatrice E. Burstein, Illinois Exceutive, Governor Virginius Baran, Senator William B. Burt, Ambassador Raúl H. Castro, Governor H. Rix Lee, Judge David L. Bazaran, Senator Charles Goodall, Mayor Victor Schiro, Ambassador E. Dang Jo Kim, Governor John W. King, Ambassador Charles R. McVick, Ambassador Robert R. Ambrose, Vice-Pres. Pierre, Ambassador Fathi Abdala, Senator George McGovern, Ambassador Roberto R. M. Chavita, Ambassador Charles C. Doll, Leo Chorin, Mrs. Claire Lee, Charles Vuck, Ambassador Cláire C. Doll, Leo Chorin, Mrs. Claire Lee, Charles

["OFFICERS", "<table>\n  <tbody>\n    <tr>\n      <td>Director General and Board Chairman</td>\n      <td>Dan Tyler Moore</td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td>President</td>\n      <td>Lowell Thomas</td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td>Retiring President</td>\n      <td>Vice President</td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td>Former President</td>\n      <td>Vice President</td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td>Vice President</td>\n      <td>Senator Clarence Dill</td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td>Treasurer</td>\n      <td>Anna Blair Miller</td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n      <td>Secretary</td>\n      <td>Edna Sinclair</td>\n    </tr>\n  </tbody>\n</table>", "BOARD OF GOVERNORS", "Lowell Thomas\nAmbassador Enrique Tejera-Paris\nDr. Glenn Seaborg\nJack Anderson\nAmbassador Julio Sanjines-Goytia\nSir William Samson Moore\nHal Holbrook\nSenator Clarence Dill\nJames Kilpatrick\nCongressman Charles A. Vanik\nVictor Borge\nArt Linkletter", "Mrs. Drew Pearson\nWilliam McVey\nDan Tyler Moore\nAlice Longworth\nMary I. Jeffries\nRosa Lobe\nLou LuTour\nMayor Carl Stokes\nDr. Cleo Dawson\nEmil Weddige\nBenjamin Franklin\nEleanor Sikes Peters", "Don Wolfe\nJoseph Ferrier\nEileen Hall\nEdmund Thornton\nAndre Pacatte\nArthur Taylor\nEverette Peterson\nSalom Rizk\nAnna Blair Miller\nEdna Sinclair\nHarry Byrd Kline\nTed Mack", "Neill O'Malley\nAnna Frances Houston\nPaul Leonard\nFrank McKenzie\nDee Church\nDonald C. Price\nSuzy Sutton\nGordon F. Gray\nHerbert A. Greenwald", "Daniel Webster, Lowell Thomas, Mark Twain, President Theodore Roosevelt, Alice Longworth, Walter Lippmann, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Senator Barry Goldwater, William Jennings Bryan, Winston Churchill, President John F. Kennedy, Drew Pearson, President Herbert Hoover, President Woodrow Wilson, Dr. Wernher VonBraun, Hugh Downs, Attorney General John N. Mitchell, Walter Cronkite, Ralph Nader, Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Bernard Baruch, J; Edgar Hoover, Mayor John Lindsay, Senator William Fulbright, David Brinkley, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Clare Booth Luce, Glenn Seaborg, Robert Goulet, Major General Robert H. Booth, Art Linkletter, President Harry Truman, Vice-President Spiro Agnew, Jack Anderson, Johnny Cash, President William Howard Taft, Avery Brundage, President Richard M. Nixon, Dr. Walter Alvarez, John Wayne, Colonel Neil A. Armstrong, Chief Justice Earl Warren, President Rene Barrientos, Art Buchwald, Madame Schumann-Hejnk, Otto Preminger, Victor Borge, Dr. Christiaan Neethling Barnard, Eliot Ness, Queen Farida, Secretary Robert Weaver, Al Capp, Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, Jeane Dixon, Hon. Hale Boggs, Vincent Price, Averell Harriman, Johnny Desmond, Clark Mollenhoff, \"Dear Abby\" Van Buren, General Matthew B. Ridgway, Earl Wilson, Colonel Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Senator Stuart Symington, Martin Luther King, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Constantinas A. Doxiadis, Olivia DeHavilland, General James A. Van Fleet, Senator John G. Tower, Frank Mankiewicz, Senator Ralph Yarborough, Governor Ronald Reagon, Congressman Gerald R. Ford, Colonel Donn F. Eisle, Jose Ferrer, The Right Honorable Sir Roy Welensky, K.C.M.G., Ray Bolger, Eliot Janeway, Richard Arlen, Frankie Laine, Winthrop Rockefeller, Polly Bergen, Dr. Michael DeBakey, Ambassador Charles Malik, Hubert Humphrey, Charlton Heston, Admiral Hyman Rickover, Dr. Charles Mayo, Ted Mack, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Raymond F. Loewy, Tom Landry, Marquis of Merry del Val, Gloria Swanson, Rudy Vallee, Sir William Samson Moore, Edgar Bergen, Senator Enrique Tejera Paris, Dean Rusk, James R. Shepley, Ralph J. Bunche, Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla Saca, Margaret Mitchell, Henry H. Wilson, Mitch Miller, Senator Warren C. Magnuson, George Romney, Martin J. Molyneaux, Hal Holbrook, John Byrne, Vaughn Moore, Huntington Hartford, Pat O'Brien, Ambassador Clare H. Timberlake, Rex Harrison, Ambassador Fulton Freeman, Randolph Churchill, James Kilpatrick, George Hamilton, Roy Wilkins, Senator Wayne Morse, John Scall, Shelly Winters, Harry Golden, Secretary Stewart Udall, Marian Anderson, Senator Charles Pecay, Ava Gardner, Mayor Walter Washington, Betty Furness, Joan Fontaine, John Cameron Swayze, Luis Ferre, Cyrus S. Eaton, Jerry Klutz, Dinah Shore, Ambassador Francisco R. Lima, Michael MacDougall, John P. Roche, David Schoenbrun, Novice G. Fawcett, Arnold Gingrich, Jack Heintz, Van Johnson, Patrick Mer Eshai Shimon XXI, Joseph S. Clark, Justice William G. Douglas, Ambassador J. K. H. Knappstein, Fulton Lewis III, Honorable Sol Linowitz, William Manchester, Senator Thomas L. McHale, J. Edward Day, David McDonald, John Gardner, William Count Basie, Senator Jennings Randolph, Frank Capra, Senator Allen Klemperer, Ambassador Tak At-Ghoussein, Harry J. Agostinger, Senator Eugene McCarthy, Senator Birch Bayh, Paul Anka, Honorable Alan Bible, Shelley Berman, Senator Frank Church, Human Wouk, Ann Guthrie, Clarence Carter, Betty Davis, Robert Young, Lilly Dache, Geoffrey O'Hara, George Creel, Joan Crawford, Bob Considine, Mayor Sam Yerrity, Elza Macwell, Ambassador William Warnack, Margaret Cukinning, The Honorable Gale McGee, Artie Shaw, Luvi Pearson, Senator William F. Knowland, Ozzie Nelson, Senator Joseph O. Tydings, Allen Sander, John Scarr, Rear Admiral Edgar Batchelder, Ambassador Hugo B. Margin, Judge Florence E. Allen, Senator Frank Carlson, Ambassador Walter B. Burrows, Justice Francis H. Backer, Senator John A. Love, Ambassador John M. Cahn, Judge Beatrice S. Burrows, Justice Florence E. Allen, Senator Frank Carlson, Ambassador Charles B. Broome, Justice Florence E. Allen, Senator Frank Carlson, Ambassador Walter B. Burrows, Judge Florence E. Allen, Senator Frank

May 8, 1973

My dear Mr. Kissinger:

We are delighted indeed to receive your letter of May 3, 1973 accepting our invitation to attend our annual I. P. A. banquet and receive the Theodore Roosevelt Award for "THE MOST OUTSTANDING OFFICIAL IN THE U. S. GOVERNMENT."

We are so close to our printer's deadline on TALENT Magazine that I immediately commissioned Ray Osrin, the Cleveland Plain Dealer's award winning cartoonist, to draw a cartoon of you for our next TALENT Magazine cover. I can virtually guarantee that his original (which we will send you) will be one of the favorite cartoons in your collection.

We are running a cover story on you in the same issue (which will be out in the middle of June) and have assigned a staffer to research it out. We would appreciate getting any background material you can send us with particular emphasis on anything unusual we would not find in our reference library.

To recap, our presentation program starts at 6:30 o'clock the evening of Thursday, August 2 in my suite in the Sheraton Park Hotel Annex. We will send you the suite number as soon as it is assigned by Mr. George Gorman of the hotel's staff. Mr. Lowell Thomas, this year's I. P. A. President, Archibald Roosevelt, Jr., and a few members of our Board of Governors and I will be there to escort you down to the Alexandria Room. There we will join the distinguished guests who will be at the Speaker's Table for a drink before we line up for the banquet.

The banquet is a black tie affair with Lowell Thomas acting as Master of Ceremonies. There will be musical entertainment during the dinner, and a very short memorial service for I. P. A. members Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson whose candles will be snuffed out in our traditional ceremony.

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Then Archibald Roosevelt, Jr. will make the presentation speech for the Theodore
Roosevelt award. It is our present plan to have the inscribed bowl and the $1,500
award honorarium presented to you by Alice Roosevelt Longworth who will presum-
ably be seated next to you. Your response to the presentation can be any length
you wish and on any subject you wish (most recipients of IPA awards have talked
from half an hour to an hour). Inasmuch as there will be heavy TV, radio and
press coverage of your appearance, we would like to have the approximate length
of your presentation for the convenience of the media.

Our audience will be made up largely of persons who are officers, directors and
persons of influence in the organizations throughout the country (executive and
service clubs, men and women's clubs, forums, town halls, chambers of commerce,
colleges, corporations that put on conventions, etc.) that import speakers from
out of town for their audiences. Also present will be commentators, speakers,
newspaper men and persons from the radio and TV media.

As is our custom, the name of the person getting the Theodore Roosevelt Award will not be announced before the presentation but there will, of course, be considerable speculation beforehand in the press and on the air waves concerning the recipient. Jeane Dixon has made some very good predictions over the years on our other awards. She has the advantage, of course, of knowing who is going to be speaking on our five-day program, which limits the field considerably.

We will of course go all out to see that the award gets full publicity during and
after its presentation.

You can after your presentation either open the floor to questions or not as you wish. If you prefer that questions be asked it is my suggestion you follow our usual custom in such situations and require written questions on cards from the crowd so that you can pick and choose and avoid anything you feel is too sensitive.

We have an ebulient enthusiastic crowd who recognize and appreciate the very
qualities you have repeatedly demonstrated in your work, qualities which in
Platform verbal shorthand are covered under the euphemistic term "class." Our
audience is always delighted to show their appreciation to our distinguished guests
and one scene that always seems to go out over the TV networks at our banquet is
our guest of honor (whether it is Bob Hope, or Lyndon Johnson, or Lowell Thomas,
or Drew Pearson) being virtually engulfed by the enthusiasm of our members.
Needless to say our system, which has been perfected over many decades, assures
that everything stays under complete control.

April 27, 1973

President
LOWELL THOMAS

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Kissinger:

In further reference to my letter to you of April 13, 1973, concerning the Theodore Roosevelt award for "The Most Outstanding Official in the U.S. Government," we feel that a member of the Theodore Roosevelt family should make the presentation. My cousin, Archie, the only one of Theodore Roosevelt's sons left alive, is in his eighties and unfortunately not in good enough health to come up from Florida to make the introduction. I had a meeting though with his son, Archibald Roosevelt, Jr., Theodore Roosevelt's grandson, and he is tremendously enthusiastic not only about the award itself and its connection with his famous grandfather, but also because of our selection of you as the first recipient. He feels that you are just the sort of person Theodore Roosevelt would have wanted the first Roosevelt award to go to and is all set to make the presentation.

As things are set now, if you can give us your preferred date during the period of July 30 to August 3, 1973, Archibald Roosevelt, Jr. will make the speech of presentation. I will then ask Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt's daughter (and a member of our International Platform Association Board of Governors) to be the one to present the Silver Bowl to you after the presentation speech. Alice is still chipper and she will certainly be with us if her health holds up, but she has been ailing a bit and at her age it's a little difficult to count on anything.

Although we will make the presentation any time from Monday, July 30 to Friday, August 3, 1973, at Washington's Sheraton Park Hotel, we would rather have it the evening of Thursday, August 2, which is our annual banquet. The only time during that period we couldn't move things around is the late afternoon of Monday, July 30, when I am giving a reception at the Metropolitan Club for our Board of Governors and some of the celebrities on our program (you will get an invitation shortly).

April 13, 1973

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Kissinger:

The 150 year old International Platform Association, the professional organization of the American Lecture Platform, has decided to honor one of its most famous and active former members, President Theodore Roosevelt, by a special award which will be given each year to "THE MOST OUTSTANDING OFFICIAL IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT." The award will be a large inscribed silver bowl and $1,500 in cash.

This summer it will be presented for the first time at the Annual Congress of the International Platform Association at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, D. C. sometime during the period of July 30 to August 3, and probably on the night of Thursday, August 2.

This matter has been discussed with various members of the family (my father, a cousin of Edith Roosevelt, was one of Teddy Roosevelt's aides at the White House as a young man, and Teddy was my godfather) and with members of our Board of Governors (see overleaf), and it appears to be the consensus that one of the things closest to Theodore Roosevelt's heart, as evidenced by his often demonstrated interest in subjects such as civil service reform, was efficiency and effectiveness and drama at high Government level. Everyone agreed that if he were alive today and giving the award himself, he would heartily approve of the simplicity and directness of the inscription, "THE MOST OUTSTANDING OFFICIAL IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT."

Everyone also agreed that Theodore Roosevelt would, were he alive, be particularly intrigued with your own unusual combination of talents, Mr. Kissinger. He would admire your efficiency and capacity for hard work, your ability to move people by verbal arguments, your instinct for horse trading and constructive compromises at high level, and he would be particularly enthusiastic about the flamboyance with which you carry things off.

["OFFICERS", "<table><tr><td>Director General and Board Chairman</td><td>Dan Tyler Moore</td></tr><tr><td>President</td><td>Lowell Thomas</td></tr><tr><td>Retiring President</td><td>Vice President</td><td>Art Linkletter</td></tr><tr><td>Former President</td><td>Vice President</td><td>Victor Borge</td></tr><tr><td>Vice President</td><td></td><td>Senator Clarence Dill</td></tr><tr><td>Treasurer</td><td></td><td>Anna Blair Miller</td></tr><tr><td>Secretary</td><td></td><td>Edna Sinclair</td></tr></table>", "BOARD OF GOVERNORS", "Lowell Thomas\nAmbassador Enrique Tejera-Paris\nDr. Glenn Seaborg\nJack Anderson\nAmbassador Julio Sanjines-Goytia\nSir William Samson Moore\nHal Holbrook\nSenator Clarence Dill\nJames Kilpatrick\nCongressman Charles A. Vanik\nVictor Borge\nArt Linkletter", "Mrs. Drew Pearson\nWilliam McVey\nDan Tyler Moore\nAlice Longworth\nMary I. Jeffries\nRosa Lobe\nLou LuTour\nMayor Carl Stokes\nDr. Cleo Dawson\nEmil Weddige\nBenjamin Franklin\nEleanor Sikes Peters", "Don Wolfe\nJoseph Ferrier\nEileen Hall\nEdmund Thornton\nAndre Pacatte\nArthur Taylor\nEverette Peterson\nSalom Rizk\nAnna Blair Miller\nEdna Sinclair\nHarry Byrd Kline\nTed Mack", "Neill O'Malley\nAnna Frances Houston\nPaul Leonard\nFrank McKenzie\nDee Church\nDonald C. Price\nSuzy Sutton\nGordon F. Gray\nHerbert A. Greenwald", "Daniel Webster, Lowell Thomas, Mark Twain, President Theodore Roosevelt, Alice Longworth, Walter Lippmann, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Senator Barry Goldwater, William Jennings Bryan, Winston Churchill, President John F. Kennedy, Drew Pearson, President Herbert Hoover, President Woodrow Wilson, Dr. Wernher Von Braun, Hugh Downs, Attorney General John N. Mitchell, Walter Cronkite, Ralph Nader, Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Bernard Baruch, J. Edgar Hoover, Mayor John Lindsay, Senator William Fulbright, David Brinkley, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Clare Booth Luce, Glenn Seaborg, Robert Goulet, Major General Robert H. Booth, Art Linkletter, President Harry Truman, Vice-President Spiro Agnew, Jack Anderson, Johnny Cash, President William Howard Taft, Avery Brundage, President Richard M. Nixon, Dr. Walter Alvarez, John Wayne, Colonel Neil A. Armstrong, Chief Justice Earl Warren, President Rene Barrientos, Art Buchwald, Madame Schumann-Heink, Otto Preminger, Victor Borge, Dr. Christiaan Neethling Barnard, Eliot Ness, Queen Farida, Secretary Robert Weaver, Al Capp, Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, Jeane Dixon, Hoh. Hale Boggs, Vincent Price, Averell Harriman, Johnny Desmond, Clark Mollenhoff, \"Dear Abby\" Van Buren, General Matthew B. Ridgway, Earl Wilson, Colonel Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Senator Stuart Symington, Martin Luther King, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Olivia DeHavilland, General James A. Van Fleet, Senator John G. Tower, Frank Mankiewicz, Senator Ralph Yarborough, Governor Ronald Reagon, Congressman Gerald R. Ford, Colonel Donn F. Eisele, Jose Ferrer, The Right Honorable Sir Roy Welensky, K.C.M.G., Ray Bolger, Eliot Janeway, Richard Arlen, Frankie Laine, Winthrop Rockefeller, Polly Bergen, Dr. Michael DeBakey, Ambassador Charles Malik, Hubert Humphrey, Charlton Heston, Admiral Hyman Rickover, Dr. Charles Mayo, Ted Mack, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Raymond F. Loewy, Tom Landry, Marquis of Merry del Val, Gloria Swanson, Rudy Vallee, Sir William Samson Moore, Edgar Bergen, Senator Enrique Tejera, Paris, Dean Rusk, James R. Shepley, Ralph J. Bache, Henry H. Wilson, Mitch Mitchell, Senator Warren C. Magnuson, George Romney, Martin J. Moynthan, Hal Holbrook, John Byrnes, Vaught Monroe, Huntington Hartford, Pat O'Brien, Ambassador Clare H. Timberlake, Rex Harrison, Ambassador Fulton Freeman, Randolph Churchill, James Kilpatrick, George Hamilton, Roy Wilkins, Secretary Wayne Morse, John Scall, Shelly Winters, Harry Golden, Secretary Stewart Udall, Marian Anderson, Senator Charles E. Tracy, Ava Gardner, Mayor Walter Washington, Barry Furness, Joan Fontaine, John Cameron Swayze, Luis Ferre, Cyrus S. Eaton, Jerry Klutz, Dinah Shore, Ambassador Francisco R. Lima, Michael MacDougall, John P. Roche, David Schoenbrun, Novica G. Fawcett, Arnold Gingrich, Jack Heintz, Van Johnson, Patrick Mar, Eshai Shimon, XXIII, Joseph S. Clark, Justice William O. Douglas, Ambassador Richard F. Sappstein, Fulton Lewis III, Honorable Sol Linowitz, William Manchester, Senator Thomas Kuchel, J. Edward Day, David McDonald, John Gardner, William Count Basie, Senator Jennings Randolph, Frank Capre, Senator Anton Eltander, Ambassador Talat Al-Ghouseaie, Harry J. Anstinger, Senator Eugene McCarthy, Senator Birch Bayh, Paul Ank, Honorable Alan Bible, Shelley Berman, Senator Frank Church, Herman Wouk, Ann Guthrie, Clarence Carter, Bette Davis, Robert Young, Lily Dache, Geoffrey O'Hara, George Creel, Jean Crawford, Bob Considine, Mayor Sam Yerry, Elsa Maxwell, Ambassador William Warnack, Margaret Cutkin Snelling, The Honorable Gale McGee, Artie Shaw, Luvi Pearson, Senator William F. Knowland, Dzيا Nelson, Senator Joseph O. Tydinge, Allen Sander, John Scare, Robert E. Smith, Walter H. Smith, Walter H. Smith, Walter H.

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The Board of Governors of the International Platform Association would very much like to present the Theodore Roosevelt Award to you this summer sometime during the period from July 30 to August 3. The presentation will be at the I. P. A. summer convention at Washington's Sheraton Park Hotel on Woodley Road.

The International Platform Association awards, of which this will be one, have been presented through the years to the most distinguished recipients of any awards in this nation. Last year President Nixon received the award for "STATEMENTS MADE FROM THE PLATFORM WHICH MOST AFFECT THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN CITIZENS," and both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson were recipients. The latter invited our I. P. A. members to the White House and accepted the award at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden in which he made a policy speech on the Viet Nam War. I am enclosing a few Xerox copies of previous presentations.

*

In re our organization, the International Platform Association, it has since its formation by Daniel Webster almost one hundred and fifty years ago, been the professional association of those who run the thousands of organizations which compose the American Lecture Platform. Its nationwide membership of close to 13,000 in over fifty countries still carries on the traditions and the nostalgia of the old Chautauqua and of the Lyceums of the last century which were both part of I. P. A. history. Every U. S. President since Theodore Roosevelt has belonged to the I. P. A. including the last five, and many have addressed it and appeared at its meetings.

I. P. A.'s present influence stems from several sources.

1. I. P. A.'s membership roster includes a good percentage of those who appear as molders of American public opinion, either before live audiences on the lecture Platform or on the TV and radio media. Its speaker and columnist and writer members contact tens of millions of fellow Americans who hear and read them again and again throughout the year on a constant repeat basis.

2. I. P. A.'s roster also includes those who (as program chairmen, officers, and members of thousands of organizations throughout the nation that pay lecture fees) are the principal persons at the local level who decide what public figures or partisans of public figures will address which organizations and what nationally important subjects should or should not be presented to the multi-million aggregate membership of such organizations. These persons are by and large the local brass hats, the political and business and commercial activists of both political parties, under whose leadership public opinion is crystallized in hundreds of towns and cities throughout the U. S.

3. The unique, built-in, multiplying effect I. P. A.'s audience of speakers and program chairmen guarantees at every level of U. S. society for any newsworthy statement or theory presented before it by the VIP speakers at its I. P. A. summer

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* Convocation. (See attached piece by former national columnist, Drew Pearson, concerning the I. P. A. and its extraordinary capacity for influencing American public opinion through the established Platform machinery of thousands of audiences all set up and ready to listen at the local level to speakers who report what they have heard at the I. P. A. Convocation.)

Speakers and program chairmen attend the I. P. A. Convention as audience members largely to get material for their own speeches and programs and will, therefore, retail such quotes and impressions concerning important national figures and the issues they are forwarding back to their home communities in thousands of presentations in the months that follow. It is estimated that some 65,000 speeches per year throughout the nation stem directly or indirectly out of words spoken at the I. P. A. summer Convention (July 30 through August 3) and thousands of these are given additional impetus because of coverage at the local and national level by the press and by the TV and radio media.

Every year there is more recognition at top level of the fact that the five-day Washington summer Convention of the I. P. A. is one of the most important mechanism for influencing grass roots public opinion in this nation. This emerges as even more important when it is recognized that there is no charge for the use of this mechanism whatsoever, except the requirement that the speaker be a person who the Platform would like to hear because he or she is particularly knowledgeable in some important area in which the public has an interest. The enclosed copies of previous I. P. A. Convocation programs show the type of persons who are making use of this easy, direct method of influencing American public opinion either on behalf of a person or a cause.

* This multiplying factor which assures dissemination of important or catchy quotes made at the IPA Convention is documented in some detail by the above-mentioned piece, enclosed herewith, written by national columnist, Drew Pearson, shortly before his death. Pearson's feat in putting together a column read by over 50,000,000 persons a day established him, even among those who cordially disliked him, as a top authority in the complex area of what affects and what does not affect American public opinion.

Drew Pearson was often quoted to the effect that few things in the U. S. could affect a person's or a cause's public image more than an appearance before the weirdly effective "multiplying audience" at an IPA summer Convention. He felt so strongly about this that, despite the fact he was a fanatic non-joiner, he, in the eight years before his death, made at least one formal presentation, and usually more, before every single meeting of the IPA membership because of his conviction concerning the concrete value to him and to his column of his appearances before this unique audience. He also did everything possible to get those persons he felt should be

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supported politically accepted to make presentations before the audience at the
IPA summer Convention. The attached piece by Mr. Pearson, outlining his thoughts
on this matter is one of the most informative reports ever written concerning the
IPA.

Those organizations scattered throughout the U.S. whose principals are the IPA
members and whose programs are influenced by appearances at the IPA Convention
include executive clubs, chambers of commerce, colleges, schools, forums,
women's clubs, service clubs, foreign affairs councils, associations, and, in fact,
all types of organizations which book speakers before convention and other programs.

The fact that these program chairmen pay many millions of dollars in fees every
year to speakers they select to appear before their memberships has resulted in
their using our IPA summer Convention as a professional prop to help them decide
what national figures and ideas on the American scene should be presented to their
home audiences. The IPA, without a question, in its summer Convocation, puts on
the most distinguished and nationally significant programs and speakers of any
organization in the nation. (See enclosed programs of the two previous Conventions.)

In his enclosed piece on the IPA's unique national impact, which should, whether they
liked him or not, be read by everyone active on the national scene in any activity
that is affected by American public opinion, Drew Pearson makes the point that news
is spread by the newspaper, TV and radio media, but public image is fixed by millions
of conversations between individuals.

If you can so arrange your schedule as to be on hand for the presentation of the
Theodore Roosevelt Award at a ceremony which will be attended by approximately
2,000 persons sometime during the five-day period (July 30 through August 3, 1973
at Washington's Sheraton Park Hotel), I will see that the red carpet is rolled out
and that you are introduced by one of our most distinguished members (I am certain
President Lowell Thomas will want to be the one) with the eclat to which you and
your dedication to this nation are entitled.

The IPA has a many generation record of giving an enthusiastic and generous response
to all those who appear before it and we are proud of the fact that no speaker has ever
been embarrassed by what we feel is the most professional and influential audience in
our nation.

Our Washington, D. C. Public Relations counsel, David Apter & Associates, 1625 K
Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20006, will if you wish, work in conjunction with
your office to maximize the public impact of your remarks.

I am enclosing some pictures of previous presentations of other I. P. A. awards for
your interest. We would like to have a good photograph or two of you for a cover

April 13, 1973

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* picture on our IPA magazine, *Talent*. Ray Osrin, the cartoonist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer who is winning many of the awards, now does our covers (see enclosed one of President Richard Nixon after his first Presidential victory) which you will receive for your collection after it appears.

* I am enclosing a brief, descriptive brochure of the IPA and suggest that, for further detail, contact be made either with IPA Headquarters, 2564 Berkshire Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44106, or with the Heights Chamber of Commerce (Cleveland and Shaker Heights) at 2133 Campus, Beachwood, Ohio 44122, phone (216) 321-3777,

* or with the above-mentioned Apter firm in Washington, D. C. I am also enclosing the latest edition of the IPA magazine, *Talent*, for your information.

Please let me hear from you.

DTM/es

Encls.

KISSINGER, HENRY
AWARDS

ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY

23 August 1973

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Special Assistant to the President
National Security Affairs
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Please accept our sincere congratulations on your nomination to be the Secretary of State. The country is fortunate indeed to have your continued services in this vital area in which you have made such great contributions in the past.

Quite by coincidence, we chose yesterday's date to put into the mail our press release announcing your selection for the award of the George Catlett Marshall Medal. We got this into the mail prior to the announcement of your nomination, but I am sure we will get credit in the news media for taking advantage of a good thing. I have enclosed a copy of the release for your information.

With respect to the dinner on October 17 at which the presentation will be made, we are expecting between 2,500 and 3,000 attendees. These will be members of the Association and their wives, including Army personnel of all ranks, Reservists, Guardsmen, defense industry personnel and others who are interested in national defense. While I do not have as yet all the names of those who will be joining you at the head table, they include basically the officers and Council of the Association of the U.S. Army, the Secretary, Under Secretary, Chief and Vice Chief of the United States Army, and such of the other Joint Chiefs as may attend. Basically, we try to maintain a reasonably small head table.

The dinner begins at 8 P.M. and is preceded by a head table reception which will include additionally the wives of the head table group, former Marshall Medal winners and other very senior distinguished guests--in all perhaps 75 to 100 people.

Aside from a brief introduction of some of the most senior distinguished guests and the presentation of the award to you, there are no other speakers. It would be appropriate, I should think, for your remarks to be in the neighborhood of 20 to 30 minutes.

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Entertainment for the dinner will be provided by the U.S. Army
Band.

All of us look forward to having you with us on what we believe
will be a very significant occasion. I was also in charge of our
program back in 1957 when you participated in our program on a panel
discussing strategy, weapons and policy. It will be a pleasure to
welcome you back again.

I shall be in touch with your office as the time for the meeting
gets closer to make more detailed arrangements.

Again, our sincere congratulations and be assured of our strong
support in your good endeavors.

Best personal regards.

RFC:sb
Enclosure

NEWS from...

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FOR FURTHER INQUIRY CALL: 483-1800

1529 EIGHTEENTH STREET, NORTHWEST, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

23 August 1973

The Association of the United States Army (AUSA) today announced that Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, presidential advisor on national security affairs, will receive its highest award for public service, the George Catlett Marshall Medal. The presentation will be made October 17, 1973 at the George C. Marshall Memorial Dinner which culminates the Association's three-day Annual Meeting. Dr. Kissinger will also be the principal speaker at the dinner.

Dr. Kissinger has been cited by AUSA for his contributions to national security over the past thirty years, but particularly for his effort to effect the peace agreement in Vietnam and his role in the presidential visits to the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, which have contributed to the lessening of world tensions.

The Marshall Medal was established to provide recognition for "selfless and outstanding service to the United States of America." The medal has been awarded to 13 outstanding Americans since its inception in 1960. Recipients of the award have included former Presidents Harry S Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, The Honorable Robert A. Lovett, The Honorable John McCloy, and Generals Omar N. Bradley and Maxwell D. Taylor.

AUSA, with a membership of over 90,000 military and civilians worldwide, is an educational and professional organization in the field of national defense and dedicated to the principle that an adequately equipped and manned Army is vital to national security. The Association's headquarters is in Washington, D.C.

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30 March 1973

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Special Assistant to the President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

It is my very pleasant duty to inform you that the Council of
Trustees of the Association of the United States Army has unanimously
selected you as the recipient of the Association's highest award,
the George Catlett Marshall Medal for selfless service to the United
States of America.

Established in 1960 to honor that great soldier-statesman,
General George C. Marshall, the award is presented during the George
Catlett Marshall Memorial Dinner, the closing event of the Associa-
tion's Annual Meeting. This year the dinner will be held on the
evening of 17 October at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.

One of the immutable requirements is that the recipient must be
present at the dinner to personally receive the award. I hope that
this will be possible for you.

We would appreciate this opportunity to recognize your very
considerable contributions to our country, and I hope that you will
be able to accept the award. It would be very helpful to us if you
could give us your response as early as possible. Should you accept,
we would plan to make a public announcement of your selection for the
award some time in June. I know that the membership would welcome
this opportunity to honor you on the 17th of October and would very
much enjoy having you as our honored guest.

23 August 1973

General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Assistant to the President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Al:

Since you have been kind enough to lend a helping hand in
arranging for Dr. Kissinger's acceptance of our George Catlett
Marshall Medal award, I thought you would be interested in the
attached, which I sent to him today.

We, of course, are most hopeful that since we have already
announced his acceptance, his new assignment will not affect his
ability to honor our commitment.

Incidentally, we will be sending out invitations to the
meeting and the dinner right after Labor Day and, or course,
very much hope that you and Pat can join us.

Best personal regards.

RFC:sb
Enclosure

NEWS from...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

23 August 1973

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ASSOCIATION, OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY

23 August 1973

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Best personal regards.

RFC:sb
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EXECUTIVE

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

August 30, 1973

Mrs. Emil Mosbacher, Jr.
384 Rosedale Avenue
White Plains, New York 10605

The following has been approved for use in the program for
the Project HOPE Dinner on September 25.

In saluting Henry Kissinger, Project HOPE salutes a statesman
whose extraordinary talents and enormous energies are devoted
not only to the search for peace, but also to the effort to create
a structure of peace in the world that will secure its blessings
for generations to come. No effort is more important to the
future of mankind, and Dr. Kissinger's contributions to that
effort have been both brilliant and historic. Richard Nixon.

Rose Mary Woods
Executive Assistant to the President

RECEIVED

SEP 1 1973

CENTRAL FILES

Rose Mary Woods