HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

6 DIVINITY AVENUE
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02138

November 3, 1975

The Hon. Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Department of State
Washington, D.C.

Dear Henry:

The Center Fellows will be in Washington December 8-12 inclusive. I would be grateful if you would meet them.

They are lively and responsible, and I think you would enjoy the contact with them. I draw your attention especially to their chairman, Adnan Abu-Odeh of Jordan, a man of rare analytical skill. In a quiet and reasoned way he has opened up a lot of closed minds in these precincts. The others too are generally of high quality.

I continue to marvel at your admirable performance on the high trapeze. The other evening I saw you on television with the House Committee. It could not have been better handled.

With warm regards and best wishes for success with the President in China.

[L.C.]

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Fellows 1975-76. Biographical Notes

ABU-ODEH, Adnan, B.A. (Damascus)--Jordanian political leader.

Member of the Senate. Former Minister of Culture and
Information, Secretary General of the Arab National Union, Chief of
the Royal Court, and teacher in Jordan, Kuwait, and the Arab Gulf
Emirates.

Research interests: Middle East politics.

AIKO, Jiro, Law Degree (Tokyo)--Japanese official.

Division Director, Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
Has served in the Middle East, France, and as Deputy Executive
Director of the Japan Trade Center in New York.

Research interests: Financing of large industrial projects
in advanced Third World countries.

ENDO, Minoru, Law Degree (Tokyo)--Japanese diplomat.

Director, General Affairs Division of Foreign Minister's
Secretariat. Previously served in Madrid, Paris, and on secondment
to Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Trade Bureau).

Research interests: Trilateral relations of Japan, Europe
and USA.

HOGUE, Cavan, B.A. (Sydney)--Australian diplomat.

Counsellor of Embassy, Manila. Has served in Seoul, Rome,
Mexico City, and Santiago de Chile.

Research interests: Southeast Asia--history and development
economics.

HOWELLS, William Dean, B.A. (Harvard); M.A. in International
Relations (Columbia)--American official.

Chief, South Asia Division, Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State. Formerly Executive Secretary, U.S. Embassy,
New Delhi, and Fellow of Council on Foreign Relations.

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William Dean Howells (continued)

Research interests: Military alliances/detente with China
and USSR/US security interests.

IDIZ, Dundar, B.A. (Ankara)--Turkish diplomat.

Deputy Director, Eastern Department, and member of Policy
Planning Group, Foreign Office. Has served in Mexico City, Jerusalem,
Belgrade, Moscow, Canberra, and Islamabad. Author of articles on
Turkish foreign policy and security questions.

Research interests: Soviet policy in the Middle East.

KIM, Hyung-ki, B.Sc. (Seoul); M.Sc., Mineral Economics (Columbia)--
Korean official.

Director, Technical Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Science and
Technology, and member of National Councils and Committees on higher
education, population, ocean research, and utilization of earth
resources satellites. Led delegations to joint ministerial meetings
with Germany and Japan. Former faculty member of Seoul National
University. Author of books and articles on industrialization,
investment criteria, science and technology development, etc.

Research interests: (1) Science and technology development
planning; (2) International technical cooperation.

KJELDSEN, Berno, B.A. (College of Europe); M.A., Political Science
(Copenhagen)--Danish diplomat.

Section Head, Department of Political Affairs, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. Former member of Delegation to Conference on
Security and Cooperation in Europe. Served in Common Market Department
of the Ministry and in Helsinki and Geneva. Former Lecturer,
University of Copenhagen.

Research interests: European security and cooperation.

LETHEM, Francis J., Licence (Antwerp); Doctorat, Economics (Neuchatel)--
World Bank official.

Chief, Education Projects Division, Western Africa Region,
World Bank. Previously on staff of Belgian Federation of Metal
Working and Electrical Industries.

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## Francis J. Lethem (continued)

Author of articles on economics of education and innovation in education.

Research interests: (1) Human resources development; (2) Management of development aid organizations; (3) Social change in Western Africa.

MALARZ, Adam, Master's degree (Higher School of Economics, Sopot); Doctorate in Economics (Gdansk)--Polish official.

Senior Counsellor, Ministry of Finance, and Consultant with Ministries of International Trade and Foreign Affairs. Member of delegation to negotiate Polish-U.S. tax agreement.

Research interests: Industrial cooperation and joint ventures between Socialist countries and developed western countries.

MCCALL, Sherrod B., B.Sc., (Northwestern); M.A. in history (Northwestern)--American diplomat.

Deputy Chief, Political Section, Consulate General, Hong Kong. Has served in Moscow, Taipei, and Manila, and in the Executive Secretariat and Bureau of East Asian Affairs of Department of State.

Research interests: Chinese politics and world outlook.

NORWOOD, Barbara, A.B. (Radcliffe); M.A. in Public Administration (N.Y.U.); graduate studies in history and economics (University of Chile)--United Nations official.

Assistant Chief, Washington office of UN Economic Commission for Latin America (ECIA). Has worked for ECLA and UN Technical Assistance Administration in New York, Washington, and Mexico City; and on secondment with Inter-American Development Bank. Holds joint appointment as Fellow of Radcliffe Institute and CFIA.

Research interests: U.S.-Mexican relations; economic and social change in Latin America.

PELTIER, Philippe, Diploma, Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris); Certificat d'Etudes Supérieures de Lettres; Ecole Nationale d'Administration (Paris)--French diplomat.

Counsellor, Permanent Mission of France to the European Communities, Brussels. Has served with Mission in Brussels since 1966.

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Philippe Peltier (continued)

Formerly served in Direction des Affaires Economiques et Financières, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Author of articles in *Revue du Marché Commun*.

Research interests: (1) World monetary and financial problems; (2) Federal Reserve System; (3) The European Common Market.

RANGARAJAN, L.N., B.Sc (Hons.) (Madras); M.Sc. in Experimental Physics (Madras); graduate study (Cambridge)--Indian diplomat.

Joint Secretary for Policy Planning, Ministry of External Affairs. Previously served as Indian Commissioner and Head of Mission, Hong Kong; Political Adviser, Indian delegation to ICSC, Vietnam (Chairman, Hanoi Bureau); Under Secretary, Ministry of Commerce; Director, Cotton Corporation of India; and Divisional Manager, Minerals and Metals Trading Corporation. Represented India at UNCTAD and numerous other international conferences. Served as Vice Chairman of International Tin Council.

Research interests: Conflict resolution in international commodity negotiations.

REID, John M., B.S. (Virginia Polytechnic); M.A. in International Affairs (Columbia)--American official.

Special Assistant to the Assistant Director (Press and Publications), U.S. Information Agency. Previously served in Saigon and Bangkok.

Research interests: East and Southeast Asia.

RUBIN, Trudy, B.A. (Smith); M.Sc. (London School of Economics)--American journalist.

Staff writer, *Christian Science Monitor*. Previously staff writer, American Survey section, *The Economist*; freelance reporting for Radio Prague. Spent 1974-75 in Middle East as Alicia Patterson Fellow. Author of articles in *The Atlantic*, *New York Times Sunday Magazine*, etc.

Research interests: History and origins of Palestinian nationalism; Middle East politics.

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SMITH, Ronald L., B.A. (Boston University); M.A. in Soviet Studies (Syracuse); graduate studies in economics (Brown)--American official.

Assistant National Intelligence Officer for Economics and
adviser to the Director, Central Intelligence Agency. Previously
served with the Office of Economic Research.

Research interests: International monetary and trade problems;
energy problems.

TICKELL, Crispin C.C., B.A. and M.A. in Modern History (Oxford)--
British diplomat.

Head, Western Organizations Department, Foreign and Commonwealth
Office. Has served in The Hague, Mexico City, Paris; in London
on the Planning Staff, and as Private Secretary to successive Ministers
responsible for negotiating British entry to European Community. His
essays have appeared in various books and he is a regular contributor
to the *Times Literary Supplement* on pre-Colombian history and
archaeology.

Research interests: Social, economic and political effects of
climatic change; European security; European political and economic
affairs.

VON PFETTEN-ARNBACH, Karl B., M.A. in Economics (Munich)--German
diplomat.

Deputy Head, Africa Section, Foreign Ministry. Previously
served in Marseilles, Karachi, Kampala and Paris.

Research interests: (1) European-American relations;
(2) Economic relationships between Third World and industrialized
countries.

August, 1975

UNCLASSIFIED

FACT SHEET

U. S. Sinai Support Mission

The President recently approved NSSM 230 and the concept of a U.S. Sinai Support Mission to carry out the provisions agreed upon in the U.S. Proposal to the Basic Agreement. Our efforts will have the following characteristics:

Management of the Mission will be through a senior interagency group under the auspices of the National Security Council.

This management board will consist of representatives from:

Department of State

Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

Agency for International Development

Department of Defense

Central Intelligence Agency

The Director of the Mission will also be a Special Representative of the President and will report to the President through his Assistant for National Security Affairs. The Director will be assisted by a small staff (12-18) in Washington drawn from the various agencies listed above.

In the Sinai the actual surveillance duties will be carried out under private contract but under the supervision of a senior Foreign Service officer and a small management cadre of USG direct hire personnel. The contract for the surveillance and support activities will be awarded on a competitive basis. The competition will be among those firms having the necessary technical qualifications. People who have expressed an interest in serving in the Mission will be able to contact the contractor directly.

Active duty military and intelligence community personnel will not be part of the field mission in the Sinai. In the initial stages, however, we will have to rely on the technical expertise of these communities for assistance in performing duties here in Washington and in conducting a technical survey of the Sinai Passes.

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To implement the President's decision we have begun:

To select candidates for the post of Mission Director
and managerial positions in the field.

To form interagency working groups to tap the
expertise of various agencies in order to prepare details
upon which to let a contract.

Preparing a USG site survey team to travel to the
Sinai to gather essential data for implementing the Mission.

This team will be headed by a senior Foreign Service
officer and will be made up of technical experts from
various agencies. The survey will last about ten days
and will make liaison with the Israelis, Egyptians, and
United Nations peacekeeping forces.

In accordance with Public Law 94-110 of October 13, 1975 (Joint Resolution on the Early Warning System in the Sinai) the Executive Branch shall submit a written report to the Congress every six months on the status, scope, anticipated duration of the Mission and the feasibility of ending or reducing their participation (first report due on April 13, 1976). Additionally, President has directed a comprehensive review of the Mission's operations one year from now.

We fully expect to have an American civilian presence in the
Sinai Passes by late February although the entire 200-man field
mission will have to be phased into the area.

UNCLASSIFIED

November 5, 1975

Dear Henry:

I would not normally trouble you with a matter such as
this, but the circumstances are unusual. Giles Whitcomb,
Harvard '66 and a former member of the Center staff, is inter-
ested in serving with the group that will monitor the Sinai
agreements. I have known him well under testing circumstances,
and he is first-class--bright, resourceful, calm in emergency,
and an indefatigable worker. For this assignment there is no
one in whose competence and character I have more confidence.

He served with distinction with the Navy in Vietnam,
where he was a field intelligence officer monitoring infiltration
from Cambodia. It tells something about his guts and stamina to
add that he is a licensed air pilot and keeps in shape by running
in international marathons.

He will prove himself. All I ask is that you have some-
one look into it who can ensure that his candidacy is not over-
looked. I have not been able to find out who is in charge of
recruitment, but if I am not mistaken, Hal Saunders and Peter
Rodman have his papers.

Whitcomb is living at 76 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge,
and his telephone number is (617) 547-9898. He is single, which
I suppose is a plus for isolated duty in the Sinai.

Best regards,

THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON

February 12, 1976

Dear Governor Brown:

I am pleased we had the opportunity to
meet during my visit to California. Although
our meeting was indeed brief, I did enjoy our
exchange and hope we will be able to continue
the discussion at a later date.

I consider the visits I am making to various
cities around the country, such as this one to
California, to be an extremely useful vehicle in
explaining U.S. foreign policy. It is an
equally important means for me to hear first-
hand the views of the people in this country on
world affairs issues as they affect them. It
was highly evident in both San Francisco and
Los Angeles that the people of California feel
very strongly about certain issues and I have
carried these thoughts back with me to Washington.

The Honorable
Edmund G. Brown, Jr.,
Governor of California,
Sacramento, California.

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November 20, 1975

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The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
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Washington, D. C.

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Dear Henry,

Through a number of different activities in which I
am currently engaged, I am frequently reminded of the vital nature
of the nuclear proliferation problem. Moreover, there always
emerges in these discussions the great importance of safeguarding
the plutonium, enriched U235, and (potentially) U233 associated with
nuclear reactors. These considerations are prominent, as you know,
in the activities of the General Advisory Committee of the Arms Con-
trol and Disarmament Agency. I find them equally so in separate
studies in which I am participating for the Ford Foundation and for
the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment about the energy
problem. Selecting and pushing the right U. S. policy on these matters
is central to these matters. So is the role of the IAEA, and so is the
interaction between the two.

It therefore seems to me obvious that we need the
right people representing the U. S. at the IAEA. Selecting individuals
very knowledgeable about these specific problems, experienced within
the U. S. Government (both in atomic energy and State Department
matters), and with the right personal characteristics, is more than
a personnel matter. It is an important matter of policy. I understand
that the position of U. S. Resident Representative to the IAEA is still
unfilled. There seems to me to be a person who may be available and
who meets the requirements of this situation admirably. That is
Phil Farley. His judgment is good, his experience extensive and
applicable, his credentials impeccable. Moreover, he has been a
first-rate and loyal executor of American policy.

It seems to me that in making this appointment the
President will be sending a signal about whether we mean business on
nonproliferation. Phil Farley's appointment would send the right kind

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November 20, 1975

of signal. I hope that you agree and will use your influence to
help produce such a result.

It was both illuminating and encouraging to hear
your views at the GAC meeting--encouraging not because the pros-
pects are good but because I continue to agree, for example, with
your views on the substance of SALT.

With best personal wishes,

CJAASEY

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Dear Harold:

Thank you for your letter of November 20 concerning the nomination of the resident U.S. Representative to the IAEA. I am familiar with Philip Farley's distinguished background and I can assure you that he will be given serious consideration. No final decision has been reached and there are still a number of well qualified individuals also under consideration.

If I can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me.

The Honorable
Harold Brown, President,
California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, California.

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NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C. 20565
Office of the Director

August 23, 1973

Dear Henry:

I am overjoyed at the news of your appointment, for two reasons, one of which you may not have guessed.

Naturally I am overjoyed as a citizen. The U.S.A. is lucky to get you.

Secondly I look forward to welcoming you as one of the nine Trustees that constitute the governing body of the National Gallery of Art. As you know, the Chief Justice is the Chairman, the Secretaries of State and of the Treasury and of the Smithsonian Institution are ex officio members, together with Paul Mellon, John Hay Whitney, Franklin D. Murphy, Lessing J. Rosenwald, and Stoddard M. Stevens. There are three meetings a year, and we shall understand if you have a few things on your schedule!

However, there are various events to which you will find yourself being invited. One for your calendar now is a dinner that Mr. and Mrs. Mellon will give on October 25 to celebrate the emergence of American art after World War II to center stage.

Discussions are also progressing on the Chinese archeological show via C/U and the team in Peking.

Again congratulations and all best wishes,

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

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C. 20565

Office of the Director

November 26, 1974

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Recalling our conversation at the White House dinner for Chancellor Kreisky, I am very hopeful you will be able to come to the preview of the Chinese exhibition, (invitation attached), in spite of the scheduling demands of your Brussels trip.

If it were possible for you to come to the dinner early, I know the press would appreciate getting a photograph of you in the exhibition. Alternatively, if it is impossible for you to be with us, there is a press preview from ten to one on that day, December 10, with additional photography until three. We would be delighted to give you an advance look at it virtually any time you said.

The objects arrived here safely last night. Needless to say, we are immensely grateful to you for everything you have done to make this show possible.

With warmest good wishes,

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

The European Vision of America

A special loan exhibition organized by The Cleveland Museum of Art to honor the American Bicentennial 1976

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
December 7, 1975-February 15, 1976

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
April 28, 1976-August 8, 1976

Musées Nationaux de France, Grand Palais, Paris
September 17, 1976-January 3, 1977

ADVANCE FACT SHEET

EXHIBITION: The European Vision of America

DATES:
December 7, 1975 - February 15, 1976
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

April 28 - August 8, 1976
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

September 17, 1976 - January 3, 1977
Grand Palais, Paris

CONCEPT:
The exhibition will be an homage of the Old
World to the New, illustrating the development
of the visual image of the Americas in European
minds from the time of Columbus to the late
nineteenth century.

This image was largely the creation of Europeans
who, without crossing the Atlantic, evolved an
almost wholly fantastic vision of an exotic land
in which all manner of strange plants and
creatures were mingled. Stimulated by traveler's
tales, by New World objects and artifacts
imported into Europe, and by paintings and
drawings by the few artists who actually
journeyed to the West, these fantasies helped
to form European conceptions and misconceptions
of the Americas. Notions derived from them were
to play a part of some importance in the history
of trans-Atlantic relations.

AUSPICES
AND SUPPORT: Organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with the National Gallery of Art

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and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux de France, the exhibition is supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

GUEST CURATOR: Hugh Honour, British scholar and writer.

CONTENT:

On view will be approximately 300 European works of art and other objects. Included will be paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, tapestries, porcelains, silver and gold work, early maps, and illustrated books. Works by such masters as Tiepolo, Goya, Delacroix, Houdon, and Turner will be shown, as well as many creations of anonymous or little-known artists and craftsmen.

Among the works in the exhibition are:

an illustrated edition of Columbus' report to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, published in 1493.

very rare and important maps, including the Miller atlas of about 1525.

the first painting of an American subject, West Indian Scene of about 1540 by Flemish painter Jan Mostaert.

watercolors of New World natives and animals by John White, Sir Walter Raleigh's cartographer and draughtsman.

costume and stage designs with American subjects by Inigo Jones and others.

the first representation of Pocahontas pleading for John Smith's life, illustrated in Smith's history of Virginia, published in 1624.

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seventeenth-century Dutch views of the
landscape and natives of Brazil and the
West Indies.

an elegant baroque evocation of American
flora and fauna in a painting by Jan Weenix.

the first edition of Mark Catesby's *The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands* with hand-colored engravings of American birds and insects, published in 1731.

Tiepolo's sketches for his fresco *America* on the staircase ceiling in the Würzburg Residenz.

British satirical prints dealing with the
American Revolution.

Beauvais tapestries and chair coverings
celebrating the American Revolution.
Ordered by Louis XVI as a gift for George
Washington, the tapestries never reached
the United States: the French Revolution
intervened.

Joseph Wright of Derby's highly romantic
painting, *The Indian Widow*.

Delacroix's *Les Natchez*, Girodet's *The Burial of Atala*, and other works inspired by Chateaubriand's *Atala*, the most popular early nineteenth-century novel with an American setting.

Wedgwood's antislavery medallion, J.M.W.
Turner's *The Slave Ship*, F.A. Biard's
*Slave Buyer in Africa*, and other works
illustrating European attitudes toward
slavery.

views of nineteenth-century life in the
United States, including the first

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illustrated edition of Mrs. Frances
Trollope's *Domestic Manners of the
Americans*, Swiss artist Frank Buchser's
paintings of western life, Ernest Narjot's
*Gold Rush Camp* (1882), and prints and
watercolors of American street scenes.

LENDERS:

Approximately one fourth of the works are being lent by French public and private collections, among them the Bibliothèque Nationale, Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and the Château de Versailles. Other works from abroad are being lent by more than fifty collections in a dozen countries, including the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Library in London, the Muséu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon, the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, and the Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich.

From the western hemisphere, the largest indi-
vidual loans are being made by the Library of
Congress in Washington and the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York. Important loans are
also being made by two museums in Canada and
fifty public and private institutions in the
United States.

CATALOGUE:

A scholarly, illustrated catalogue to be published in English and French editions will accompany the exhibition. Text, written by Hugh Honour, will include essays on each major section of the exhibition as well as individual entries for each work exhibited. Approximately 300 pages; 300 illustrations (eight color plates); available in paperbound editions.

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September 4, 1975

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION or photographs contact Katherine Warwick,
Assistant to the Director, or Mary Dyer, Information Office,
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 20565, (202) 737-4215,
ext. 224; or Frances Stamper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150
East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, (216) 421-7340.

National Gallery of Art

September 24, 1975

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Our major exhibition kicking off the Bicentennial year
is entitled "The European Vision of America", America being
defined in its 17th Century sense of what is now all the
Americas.

The opening dinner, Thursday, December 4, will be
held at the Pan American Union, with the invitations being
issued jointly by the Trustees of the National Gallery of
Art (which includes, of course, you), and the Secretary
General of the OAS.

It will give us an opportunity to invite all of the
ambassadors of the hemisphere, in addition to those repre-
senting the lending countries, a list of which is attached.
After dinner we shall have a chance to have a preview of
the show, which should be quite intriguing. (I attach
some background material on it.)

In view of the particular diplomatic slant to this
show, I wanted you at least to have the date in advance.

With all warmest good wishes to you both,

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

Enclosures

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
Collectors Committee

Notes on the Inaugural Meeting, October 31-November 1, 1975

The group gathered on a lucid, crisp fall afternoon in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. Upstairs in the oval Blue Room, on axis with the Jefferson Memorial, we met with Mrs. Ford, who chatted informally with her guests over tea and drinks while a string ensemble from the Marine Corps in brilliant red uniforms played in the background. She was joined shortly by the President who chatted with each of the members in turn.

That evening, the Committee gathered at the Gallery for a dinner given by the Trustees. Cocktails were served, behind the scenes, around the large-scale model of the East Building, giving many their first view of what this project will be like. Then our hosts, Chief Justice Warren Burger, Chairman, and Paul Mellon, President, led the guests into the East Garden Court for dinner.

With only votive candles and lights up through the trees, the tables for 6 ringing the fountain from Versailles gave the feeling of a dinner *al fresco* by moonlight. And if anyone still needed to be reminded of the date (October 31), the dessert of pumpkin ice cream came encircling lighted jack-o-lanterns.

In his welcoming remarks, Paul Mellon thanked all the members for their generosity, recognizing the degree to which they were all heavily committed to their local communities. He talked of his father's dream of having the Gallery be a *national* one, in every sense of the word, both in its maintenance support, which comes from the American people through taxes, and in its gifts of art, which can come only from private citizens. He was particularly grateful, he said, to see that the Committee already represented: California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia.

Mr. Mellon went on to toast Ruth Johnson, thanking her for her 'infectious and passionate' commitment to her responsibilities as Chairman of the Committee, to which she graciously replied. The Chief Justice then spoke spontaneously, praising both the Gallery and its President for the standards set here.

After dinner, the guests scattered through nearby galleries to look at art ranging from a recent gift of Winslow Homer watercolors to the Gallery's small but burgeoning collection of 20th c. art.

The following morning, the group gathered in the Board Room of the Gallery for a presentation on the East Building and the projected work of the Committee. With some 80 slides, the Director went into the history of the building project and discussed in some detail the design problems which the site, envisioned since Major L'Enfant's original plan, posed for the architect, I.M. Pei, and the brilliant solutions he has developed for them. We then examined, one by one, the commissioning projects the Committee is making possible, looking at where the works of art supported by the Committee were to go and looking at photographs of the 70-foot Calder mobile, the 35-foot Miro tapestry, the Arp tapestry, the Henry Moore, and the problem of what to commission for the space at the entrance. From several quarters at once came the suggestion that a similar presentation be put on tape so that the slides could be shown at dinner parties regionally. This we have undertaken to do. And almost all came up spontaneously with names of friends whom they felt would want to be involved.

After a discussion of the Committee and its weekend by Ruth Johnson, all headed off to the construction site to clamber around scaffolding, over unfinished floors, and up and down staircases to see the building 'in situ'. The scale, the quality of the marble and concrete work, and some of the spaces are just beginning to be able to be perceived. In the meeting next year, we should have a good deal more to show. I hope you can be with us. What heartened us here at the Gallery most was the enthusiasm engendered among the members. "I had no idea..." was the most frequent comment.

J. Carter Brown
Director

Washington, D. C.
National Gallery of Art,
Director,
Mr. J. Carter Brown,

Personal Assistant
Suzanne 2. McFarlane

Sincerely,

Received a copy.
You very much for your kindness in seeing that he re-
ceived a valued addition to his personal library. He thanks
you for Building Types. It is a fascinating book and will be
how much he appreciated your sending him A History
Secretary Kleasinger asked me to let you know

Dear Mr. Brown:

June 31, 1976

May 22, 1975

Dear Dean:

While I hate to let you go, I recognize
the pressures you are under from the Middle East
Institute, and am grateful for the many sacrifices
you have already made for us. Thus, albeit with
reluctance, I acquiesce in your departure.

In letting you go, however, I want to warn
you that you are not yet free of my clutches and
the next time there is a crisis of any variety, I
am more than likely to ask your help once again.
You and the people who have worked with you have
done a superb and absolutely remarkable job, par-
ticularly in light of the fact that you had to begin
operations in the midst of an already major crisis.
You and your Task Force have my deepest gratitude
and heartfelt thanks, feelings which I am certain
the President shares.

I leave it to you and Larry to work out
transitional arrangements for the Task Force pend-
ing the President's decision on my recommendation
that responsibilities be transferred to HEW.

With the warmest best wishes, my deepest
thanks and gratitude to you and June for all you
have both done for us.

Warm regards,

The Honorable
L. Dean Brown,
President's Special Representative
and Director, Inter-Agency Task Force.

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March 13, 1975

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
The Secretary of State
Department of State
Washington, D. C. 20523

Dear Mr. Secretary:

It was more than thoughtful of you to write
me on March 5 about the completion of my services as
consultant to the State Department in connection with
the Colorado River salinity problem with Mexico. The
favorable result would not have been possible without
the close cooperation of the State Department with the
Committee of Ten representing the western states and
the Congress. I am heartened to have your statement
that the solution has helped to strengthen our relations
with Mexico in a significant way. I have written up
my experiences (with Sam Eaton, now in the Embassy
at Madrid) in the current issue of the American Journal
of International Law to be published this month --
there seemed to be great interest in the possibility
of using the desalting plant technique in other areas
of the world.

I watch with fascination your strenuous and
successful activities around the globe in the interests
of world peace and, as a citizen, I am deeply gratified
for your leadership. Best regards.

HB:MC