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December 27, 1972

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Asst. to President for Nat'l Security Affairs
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

My family and I are your sup-
porters.

What we don't understand is
that we have been told many times that
America must end this war with honor.
Are we enhancing our honor by slaughtering
women and children with the renewed bombing?

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Box 1178
Carmel, Calif.

Dec. 29, 1972

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

Dear Sir:

It is most difficult to bring myself around to
believing you are guilty of the present Hitlerian mass murder
and holocaust in Vietnam.

I think of you as a Jew. I know you are ever
aware of the German stain on civilized man. This is what
confounds me, sir, to think that you have had even a minimal
part in that unbelievable murder so rampant amongst a people
who only want to be let alone.

If, sir, you are innocent, the least and the most
you can do is to publicly wash your hands of that awful
sin in public, be forthright with America which has been good
to you, and try to save a remnant for us of the America that
once was. You owe the mass of Americans this favor. You
should cast off the shackles, if so they be, of the madman
who thinks he is God.

Remember, sir, that it is not a long step from the
mass slaughter in Vietnam to blame being attached to you, then
the process that took place in Germany, where all of us who
seek decency will fall as did the Jew.

God for give you if you are even partly to blame
for inflicting this horror on decent Americans and the world
in general.

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Another gentle season
Haunted by echoes
of young laughter
forever stilled
with one voice we
cry — Enough!

An end to killing now!

Stephen Kronheimer
225 Nova Albion Way
San Rafael, Calif. 94903.

12.30.72.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

As a Jew and a former German Immigrant, you should be really embarrassed to support such a <u>miserable and barbaric policy.</u>

This is the strangest Democracy....I have ever experienced.

Might is NOT right, see what happened in Germany under Hitler.'

How can <u>you</u> support a man like " Thieu "..

Stop it now....don't be stubborn. <u>Please.</u>

Stop this insanity.'

( I am 73 years old.....and memories are haunting me )

January 3, 1973

250 West 85th Street
New York, N.Y. 10024

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

As a former Radcliffe student (1958), and product of
the Harvard Government Department, I am writing you to
express my utter dismay at what has happened in the
Vietnam Peace Negotiations.

If you negotiated in good faith in Paris, and made your
statements in good faith to the American people, you have
been had by the President. I honestly don't see how you
can continue to serve him. I cannot imagine anything
more inhumane, brutal, and unAmerican as the bombing which
took place over North Vietnam during the Christmas season,
a time to celebrate peace on earth, with murder this year.
How you can go back to face the other side across the
bargaining table and not feel like a representative of
the heathen I cannot imagine. It fills me with abhorrence
of the whole political system. Is there no morality left?

I think the American people have been bombed into total
numbness and apathy by this experience. "Peace is at
hand", Election. Victory. Bombs. It is arrogant and
two-faced, and I don't see how an intelligent man can
allow himself to be a part of it, unless he is without
moral judgment, and without human compassion. For the
New Year, you should try examining your soul. You have
either been party to a plot, or the rug has been pulled
out from under you, in which case I cannot imagine how
you could do else but resign.

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

324 Harvard Street
Cambridge, Mass.

December 29, 1972

Dr. H. Kissinger
Ass. to the President
White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

I find it a very sad occasion to write to you. You are a disgrace to this nation, and to yourself.

You are directly responsible for committing genocide in Vietnam.

Stop the bombing and end the War.

We are a sick and defeated nation. You are a guilty party to mass civilian murder.

I pity and grieve for you.

Janet & Ken
Libertoff

1/10/73

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Do you really feel that what you
are doing is right? Do you feel like
getting the Vietnam mess settled even if
not on Mr. Nixon's terms?

I have a feeling that you are too
sensible to in your heart go along with
the president. I hope I am correct.

If you truly feel that protecting
the corrupt Thieu is not our first priority,
haven't you the courage to defy the president,
even if it means getting fired. Your future
is always safe - you have many alternatives.

I hope I am not wrong in my estimate
of you. Please speak up and damn the torpedos!

December 20th, 1972

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

Sir: It is the greatest irony that you escaped Nazi Germany probably to become the scapegoat of Nixon's Vietnam policies. Pray that all Jews will not again become the scapegoats of adverse reactions.

You have espoused policies which have destroyed an ancient land with its ancient culture; and in what terms can we begin to describe the loss and maiming of human lives?

In the end these policies will prove no different from Hitler's. They are only covered with the American flag, which the world is beginning to understand no longer represents the hope for peace and freedom.

I wish for you what I have long wished for Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.....never a happy hour or comfortable day as long as there is a Vietnamese or American soldier and their families, suffering from this war and its endless tragic effects.

For you there is only scorn.

604 E. Hawthorne
Ontario, Calif. 91764

HOPE DISTRICT
THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

D. MOUZON MANN

SUPERINTENDENT
200 NORTH PINE
HOPE, ARKANSAS 71801

January 11, 1973

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

I don't know what happened after the "peace is at hand" statement.

It must take much courage for you to smile after the post-election development.

It is wrong for us who are wrong to be involved to begin with to try to break Vietnam into coming to our terms. We have no right, before God. We are presumptious, to say the least.

As the Powers of the past had to reckon with God, so shall we.

Please, please, bring our part in this awful nightmare to a conclusion.

God be with you.

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MARTIN MAYER

33 EAST END AVE.
NEW YORK, N. Y. 10028

(212) RE 7-1518

December 23rd, 1972

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

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

I presume on brief acquaintance.

I heard your press conference last week, and I have read the newspapers carefully all this week. When the war was new, I thought our intervention was correct; and when, like everyone else, I "turned against" the war, I remembered the reasons why I had initially approved; I have never thought the war was "immoral."

But during the course of this week, while Christmas shopping and watching the football game, I have been unable to keep from thinking about the poor bastards who live in Hanoi and Haiphong. I am willing--indeed, anxious--to believe that what my government has done in that part of the world this week was required by an historical imperative, and that the lives lost in this bombing have been sacrificed for need. I have been given reason to believe that the fault for the breakdown in the negotiations lies with the North Vietnamese, and I am prepared to accept that, knowing something of the history of Communist negotiators. But I have not been given reason to believe that the magnitude of this fault justifies the violence of our response.

Last time we spoke, you said that some day when I was in Washington I should give you a call. I will be in and out of Washington a fair amount in the next months, and will try that. If you have any comfort for me--and have time to give it--I should like to have it.

21 Flintstone Drive
Pittsfield, Massachusetts 01201

December 19, 1972

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

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

In the hope that this letter might convey a small part of my feeling against
what you are advising our President, I am writing this.

I am just an average wife and mother so my heart is crying out to all those
innocent victims of this stupid war.

Will you please stop advising our President to bomb Viet Nam? I cannot tell
you how shocked and sick I am after hearing what is being done in the name of
peace. May I be so bold as to suggest that you and the rest of the negotiators
get in one room and kill each other off instead of using innocent bystanders
for your bullets?

I am begging you to begin thinking of people as humans instead of just someone
to be used for your ego trip.

ULYSS STANFORD MITCHELL

550 Ventura Avenue • San Mateo, California 94403

Dec. 30, 1972

Dr. Henry Kissinger,
Aid to the President
White House,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Many of us believe that you have tried conscientiously to
bring Peace to S.E. Asia, but that at the crucial moment
you were over-ruled by the President and voices from the
Pentagon.

It seems inconcievable that you personally would concurr in
the merciless bombings of North Viet Nam and Laos of recent
date. I beg of you to do all in your power to bring this
extreme element in our government under control. If this is
impossible then resign,giving the public a clear definition
of these differences.

The present course is insane and utterly savage, and will serve only to alienate friendly nations. It will serve the best interests of communism, and render a great disservice to the cause we pretend to be fighting for.

Please leave no stone unturned in trying to restore reason
in the reach for Peace. Remember the Vietnamese are fighting
for their homes and a united country.

The Thieu group are not worthy of our support. Stop it
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Dear Mr. Kissinger,

Recent events concerning the machinations
of the Vietnam War have so upset me that I
am writing these thoughts to you.

Your words " Peace is at hand " are now lost
in Nixonian Newspeak beyond all mortal hope------
where can you go now ? To me , you seemed the
embodiment of the rational , educated , intelligent
mind searching for a formula for peace within
the morass of opinionated self-seeking mentalities
of the Nixon forces. Now this is lost : who in
the entire world will accept your words and
thoughts as those seeking truth and validity,
not only tomorrow but in the years to come ?
All of your intelligence , rationale , and
experience is now shown to be merely the errand
boy of mendacious opinion .

Why is it that after all is said and done
( twelve years of American carnage in Vietnam )
that you gray-flannelled minds appear truly
ignorant and even contemptuous of all humane
intercourse ? Unfortunately , the commercial
world has made a travesty of its significance,
but LOVE ( especially for truth and validity )
is the qualifying factor which the business -
minds seem to completely lack.

OAK SUMMIT ROAD
MILLBROOK, N. Y. 12545

January 4, 1973

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

I am addressing my letter to you in part because
you seem to have some recognizable moral code--some-
thing in short supply in this administration.

There is no more helpless feeling in the world than
to have one's name attached to an act of policy one ab-
hors and not be able to do a thing about it. It's not
in my name, or in the name of anybody I know, that
Nixon is pursuing his insane search for "Peace with Honor".
If there were ever any honor attached to this loathsome
war, it has long been sunk into the muck of wasted lives
and destroyed countries.

I have had considerable admiration for the way you
and your staff have tried to conduct these negotiations,
and I offer my hopes, as feeble as they are at present,
that something can be done in short order to stop this
war before America is destroyed as well as Viet Nam.

cc: Rep. Hamilton Fish, Jr.

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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02139

Department of Meteorology
Rm. 54-1519

December 24, 1972

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Special Advisor on National Security
White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

We have always respected your abilities, although disagreeing with some of your realpolitik-based policies. However, we can only question your integrity, for having told us peace is at hand. We see only death, only barbarity and cruelty--only bombs. You should remember again Dauchau and Auschwitz-- for you have helped to create them again in Hanoi and Haiphong.

Peace,

Dr. Arthur M. Katz

Ms. Sima Rae Osdoby