THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON

October 22, 1974

Dear Jim:

Thank you for your note of September 15 written from Oxford and for transmitting some views you have picked up there. It is always helpful to learn how events here in Washington are interpreted in other countries, and I appreciate your thoughtfulness.

I hope you are finding your sabbatical
an enjoyable and rewarding experience.

Warm regards,

Henry A. Kissinger

Mr. James G. Holland, Jr.,
Beechwood Flats #6,
Iffley Turn, Oxford.

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November 15, 1974

Dear Robbie:

Nancy and I want to thank you for the charming statute from Spain. It is quite attractive and should be a graceful addition to our new home.

We both send our best wishes and look forward to seeing you when you are next in the area.

With warmest regards and appreciation,

Miss Robbie Holley
Box 2, Naval Station
FPO New York 09540

1200 EIGHTEENTH STREET, N. W.
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20036

October 9, 1973

Dear Friend of The Harvard College Fund:

You are cordially invited to be the guest of The Fund at
its annual Washington meeting which will be held at the Inter-
national Club, 1800 K Street, N.W., on Thursday, November 1,
1973. Cocktails will be served at 12:00 and lunch at 12:30.
We promise to be out by 2:00.

Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., '40, a member of The Harvard
Board of Overseers, will be with us and will make some informal
comments about Harvard today.

Representatives of The College Fund, including Scoop
Hollingsworth '40, Executive Director, Richard Flood '27, Mason
Fernald '40, and Rufus Peebles '61, will also be there to give
reports and answer questions from the floor.

If you wish to invite other Classmates who may be helping
you (or whom you hope will work with you in the future), please
do so, but be sure to call me at 331-9100 and give me the names
of any other men who are coming.

P.S. I will appreciate your completing and mailing the enclosed
reply card today, if possible. Thanks. If we receive an
affirmative response we will rely on your attendance.

Honors of Representatives.
Marjorie 2. Holt,
The Honoradle

Personal Assistant
Suzanne 2. McFarlane

Sincerely,

You for your kindness in forwarding it to him,
he will find it extremely interesting, and he thanks
edited for the Republican Study Committee. I know
The Case Against the Reckless Congress, which you
how much he appreciates your sending him a copy of
The Secretary has asked me to let you know

Dear Mrs. Holt:

March 19, 1976

THAD HOLT

1510 FIRST NATIONAL·SOUTHERN NATURAL BUILDING

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 35203

(205) 252-6272

August 15, 1975

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

My dear Dr. Kissinger:

As the one who, with some trepidation, first suggested an Off-The-Record Community Leadership Conference during your visit to Birmingham, I want to hasten to express my assurance that it was most successful.

After all, this is "Wallace Country" just now, and I cannot certify that an "internationalist" sentiment is exactly rampant. I was particularly pleased that my good friends Senators Sparkman and Allen were able to feel the approval of their support of you.

All in all, I think your appearance here accomplished a great deal toward "grass roots" support of your efforts, and I congratulate you.

As a Member of the Museum Board, I wish also to express our appreciation of how graciously Mrs. Kissinger accepted the ardors of the reception of the Farm Bureau Women. We are pleased that she seemed impressed by our Museum.

With kindest personal regards, I am

TH/es

January 31, 1975

Dear Lin:

Thank you for your thoughtful letter of January 22 confirming that you have submitted your resignation to the President.

I too have enjoyed our work together and am saddened by your decision. You are a trusted colleague, a good friend and a patriot of the highest integrity. I want you also to know how much I shall miss you in the months ahead and how deeply I have appreciated your many contributions in the past year.

This has been a difficult and critical period in our nation's history. Your task in Congress was no less difficult, nor less critical. That we remained on course in our purposes and policies is, I believe, due in no small measure to your own tireless efforts.

For this, and especially for your grit and your devotion to America, I am profoundly grateful.

Warmest personal regards,

/s/ Henry A. Kissinger

Henry A. Kissinger

The Honorable
Linwood Holton,
Assistant Secretary of State
For Congressional Relations.

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ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE

WASHINGTON

January 22, 1975

Dear Mr. Secretary:

I feel very genuine sadness as I now confirm
to you that I have submitted to the President my
resignation, effective January 31, 1975. I anti-
cipated that working for you would be a fascinating
experience, and indeed it was. I not only enjoyed
the exposure to your expertise in the conduct of
foreign policy in a unique year in the history of
our Republic, but I as well found most rewarding
the frequent contacts with Members of Congress that
this position gave me, both with you and independently.

Many friends and members of the Press have
quizzed me about you; it is thus after considerable
reflection that I have described you with one word
more than any other: demanding. Demanding of
excellence, in himself and of his associates. I
admire you for it, I share it, and I am equally
impatient with less than excellence. Thank you
for a very wonderful experience.

I shall continue loyal support for you and
your efforts, and I shall make every effort to
make myself available if you should find a future
need of my assistance.

Lastly, it has been a great pleasure for me
to know you better as a friend, and I hope that
we may, in the future, be able to share some of
those infrequent opportunities to relax which
your schedule permits.

The Honorable
Henry A. Kissinger,
Secretary of State.