December 1976.

Dear Dr. and Mrs. Kissinger:

On behalf of the dutch american citizens in
southern California, I want to wish you a
very Merry Christmas and excellent health,
prosperity and success in 1977.

Furthermore I want to thank you for the great
job you have done for this nation in the
capacity as Secretary of State of the United
States.

Among the dutch immigrants, you will be remembered
as the only Secretary of State, who has flown top
record miles on an international basis and most
important, who played a major role in settling that
ugly war in VietNam.

Many of us regret your and Mr. Ford's departure and we
hope the best for the new leadership in Washington.

I would appreciate it very much, if you could send
me one of your favorite pictures in color (with your
Nancy if possible) which I proudly will hang up in my
office.

I wish you and your wife a very pleasant Holiday Season and much success in your new plans for the future.

With personal regards,

As a native Fürther and son of Dr. Wilhelm Kluth, who had
his office for many years on Friedrichst, and furthermore
as nephew of another well-known Fürther, Dr. Ludwig Erhard,
I, as well as my wife who also lived in Fürth for ten years
and visited the University there, am taking the liberty
to tell you that tears almost came into our eyes when we
read the enclosed article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
You should know: We too will never forget you and will always
be grateful to you for all you have accomplished in the free
world.

We wish you all the best for the future, and would be
delighted if you would become Bavarian Ministerpräsident!
Then, of course, we would like to spend our retirement in
Bavaria, after having lived "in exile" for years in Duesseldorf.
Again, with good wishes for a happy future.

The enclosed article describes the Secretary's departure
from the State Dept. Dipl. Lobby on January 19.

PS. Our daughter, who is studies in America, lives in Atlanta
and is married to an American, who - of course - comes
or convinced
from an (avid) Republican family.

[LC]

DR. WERNER KLUTH

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24.1. 1977

Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Kissinger,

Als gebürtiger Fürther und Sohn des langjährigen
Nervenarztes Dr. Wilhelm Kluth, der in der Fürther
Friedrichstraße seine Praxis hatte und außerdem als
Neffe eines ebenfalls ganz bekannten Fürthers,
Dr. Ludwig Erhard, erlauben wir uns - auch meine Frau
hat zehn Jahre in Fürth gelebt und dort das Lyzeum be-
sucht - Ihnen zu sagen, daß uns, als wir in der Frank-
furter Allgemeinen Zeitung beiliegenden Artikel lasen,
ebenfalls fast die Tränen kamen. Sie sollen wissen:
Auch wir werden Sie niemals vergessen und immer dank-
bar an Sie und all das denken, was Sie für uns alle, für
die freie Welt geleistet haben.

Wir wünschen Ihnen alles Gute für die Zukunft
und würden uns mehr als freuen, wenn Sie bayrischer
Ministerpräsident werden sollten! Dann allerdings
würden wir unsren Lebensabend in Bayern verbringen wollen,
nachdem wir seit Jahren "ins Exil" nach Düsseldorf ver-
schlagen sind.

Mit nochmaligen guten Wünschen für eine glückliche Zukunft
Ihre sehr ergebenen

Hossein Djamshid

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Arms control adversary

Washington

There are honest and impressive reasons why prominent Democratic friends of Jimmy Carter are deeply worried lest he put Paul Warnke in charge of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

Their concern is that since Mr. Warnke left the Johnson administration as assistant secretary of defense he has been persistently advocating views on United States-Soviet relations and on strategic arms matters which, to them and perhaps to others, pose questions as to his suitability to lead Carter's arms control team.

In 1972, for example, he was chief adviser to the Democratic presidential nominee, George McGovern, on security and defense policies. There can be little doubt that Warnke's and McGovern's ideas on arms control would not fit Carter's. At the 1972 Democratic convention Carter nominated Sen. Henry Jackson.

It is hard to see how the American side in the SALT talks can be effectively upheld by one who advocates, as Warnke does, the unilateral abandonment of weapons systems which are subject to negotiation at SALT as well as some others which are not even under discussion.

Here is the documentation which makes this question pertinent and proper:

The "Alternative Defense Posture," a campaign document presenting McGovern's defense budget proposals and strongly defended by Warnke, set out a dismantling of U.S. military strength which would have made it unnecessary for the Soviets to negotiate to get a SALT agreement favorable to themselves. Thus Warnke put his support behind ending deployment of MIRVs, Minutemen III, and other steps to upgrade U.S. ICBMs, dismantling all Titan ICBMs, cessation of conversion of Polaris to Poseidon submarines, and cutting by more than half the Army's surface-to-air missile capability and the Air Force's interceptor force.

This was not "campaign oratory." Warnke has reiterated many or most of these proposals since.

Excerpts from the latest annual address by the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Perhaps distractions caused by the American parade of growth and progress have dulled national awareness of how personal liberty must be re-earned by each generation. The very protections granted by our Constitution may have dulled citizen alertness to freedom's loss. Thus, we have tolerated — *beyond reason* — the growth of giant government, now overshadowing personal and property rights. We have allowed ourselves to be taxed — *beyond reason* — to pay for the very controls and regulations that further strangle us.

It is my suggestion that early in this new year we pick two or three target issues and make them the focus of special effort and attention.

* As a number one project, I would pick the growing problem of labor monopoly... the entire issue of irresponsible union power and union compulsion. I would include the defense of states' rights through retention of section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act, and opposition to common situs picketing.

* Number two, in my thinking, would be the total area of regulatory reform. This must include exposure of, and resistance to, arbitrary and unwise decisions by such regulatory groups as EPA — the Environmental Protection Agency — and OSHA — the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. We need reform of federal and state regulation of transportation. We must have deregulation of oil and natural gas industries if we are to increase domestic production.

Readers write

Jeffrey Fessel (Zionist Organization of America) in a recent letter says that "what your readers deserve is an authoritative definition of Zionism." He then proceeds to give his own version, pegged to religious identity. But Zionism is and always was a political movement considering aliyah (emigration to Israel).

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

As one of the four billion ±
earthly inhabitants, I should like
to express my profound gratitude
for your eight years of overtly
peaceful efforts on our behalf.
You are truly THE Nobel Peace
Laureate of the 20th century, making
it possible for us to view the 21st
on the horizon.

With sincere thanks,

P.O. Box 2000
Lexington, Ky. 40511

January 13, 1977

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Department of State,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

I am one of the plain citizens of this country whom you have served
with such diligence and excellence over the past eight years.

Just as the framers of the constitution allowed in their draftings
for the possibility that another great citizen—Alexander Hamilton—
might attain the presidency; just as the country came to regret that
Albert Gallatin—a Swiss-by birth—was not eligible after his illustrious
service as Jefferson's Secretary of the Treasury, it is of the utmost
importance that this nation not let you slip into history.

You have come to be the most admired American man, and this says something
about the relative unimportance of birth and naturalization among the
rare company of leadership, indeed among peoples in general. I should count
it a privilege to participate in any effort to amend the constitution in
such a way as to do away with the requirement of "natural birth".

This country, whatever its disposition as to the foregoing, owes you a
great debt. For the first time since the end of the great war, we see a
chance for a world order leading to vested interests in peace amongst all
the great powers. You must continue to be the champion of that order and
the new relationships that have begun to grow from it.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all that you have conceived and
done. These past eight years would have indeed been very dark without your
great work.

I remain,