OFFICE OF
HENRY A. KISSINGER

May 17, 2001

Dear Ms. Drew:

I am pleased to inform you that Dr. Kissinger was happy to
provide the following quote for *Harry and Ike* by Steve Neal:

*Harry and Ike* sheds important new light on a relationship founded on friendship and a similar heritage, bitterly shattered by politics and reknit by mutual respect at the end of their lives. Drawing on their letters, diaries and memoirs and on personal recollections of associates, Neal gives us fascinating insights into these two "giants that saved the West".

Please feel free to contact me at 212/759-7919 with any
questions.

Ms. Lisa Drew
Vice President and Publisher
Lisa Drew Books
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HAK:

For a jacket blurb for Steve Neal's HARRY AND IKE: The Partnership That Remade the Postwar World:

"HARRY AND IKE sheds important new light on a relationship founded on friendship and a similar heritage, bitterly shattered by politics and reknit by mutual respect at the end of their lives. Drawing on their letters, diaries and memoirs and on personal recollections of associates, Neal gives us fascinating insights into these two "giants that saved the West". He also brings to vivid life the seminal years of World War II, Europe's reconstruction, the McCarthy era, the foundations of the Cold War and America's emergence as a superpower."

OK as edited ✓

SCRIBNER / LISA DREW BOOKS

APR 18 2001

April 16, 2001

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger Associates Inc.
350 Park Avenue 26th floor
New York, NY 10022

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

In September, Lisa Drew Books/Scribner will publish *Harry and Ike* by Steve Neal. This book examines the fascinating relationship between Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower from FDR's death in April 1945, when Truman became Commande-in-Chief during World War II, through Eisenhower's death in March 1969. Their initial relationship was surprisingly respectful and warm; together they oversaw not only the great Allied victory, but also the restructuring of the US military and the reconstruction of post-war Europe. However, their friendship began to fray during Eisenhower's 1952 presidential campaign and soon ruptured. It was not until the 1963 funeral of President John F. Kennedy that the two men re-established a semblance of their previous bond, which continued until Eisenhower's passing.

Drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs and numerous interviews with associates of both men, Steve Neal has written an insightful and compelling book about two giants of 20th Century American political history. I hope you will have a chance to read the enclosed bound galley, and if you like it as much as we do, that you might give us a comment to use in advertising and promotion. It would be very helpful if I could have your comments by May 11. Thank you very much for your consideration.

LISA DREW
VICE PRESIDENT & PUBLISHER
LISA DREW BOOKS

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