KISSINGER, HENRY A.

Helen Spindler

THE KNOX SCHOOL

St.James 11 780 L.J.NY.

2-22-1969

Mr.Henry Kissinger, Esq.,
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,
Washington, DC.

Dear Sir:

TIME'S remark, that your Bachelor Quarters
are a shambles - no doubt exaggerated -
prompts me to write this letter.

Although I have never before professionally
kept House or cooked, I am well qualified
and enjoy doing both.

Might you be in need of a Housekeeper ?

Since last October I am in charge of the
Infirmary at the above School.

1967/68 I took care of 18 students as House-
mother at St.Catherine's School in Richmond,
Virginia.

Born and educated in Germany - US citizen
since 1931 - I have been married twice, both
husbands have died.

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Sam, Spiegel

711 Fifth Avenue

New York, N. Y. 10022

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

February 12, 1972

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Henry:

As arranged over the phone, I am sending you herewith
my addresses and phone numbers in London and New York:

LONDON:

**Office**
Horizon Pictures (G.B.) Ltd.
31 Dover Street
London, W1X, 3RA, England
(01) 493-8292

**Home**
Grosvenor House
Park Lane
London, W1, England
(01) 499-6363

NEW YORK:

**Office**
Horizon Pictures, Inc.
711 Fifth Avenue
New York, N. Y. 10022
(212) 421-6810

**Home**
475 Park Avenue
New York, N. Y. 10022
(212) PL 9-7858

My secretary's name in London is Jill Morgan, who will
always be aware of my movements and who is in daily
contact with me wherever I may be in Europe.

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Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

February 12, 1972

My secretary in New York, Ellen Deegan, is in touch
with me wherever I am in this country.

As soon as you get to London next, please let me know.
Then we will meet and discuss your plans for joining
me on the boat this summer. Hopefully, you will be
able to spend several vacations with me, and forget
the rest of your worries.

It was nice meeting you. It made my trip to Washington
a better experience.

SS:ed

ROBERT F. SPINDELL

135 SOUTH LA SALLE STREET
CHICAGO

January 28, 1971

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Surely you felt the enthusiasm and excitement
of the audience at the Luncheon Meeting of "Harvard
Comes To Chicago" last Friday. Rarely have I
heard so many comments about a speaker and a
speech and, surprisingly, all were favorable.
Maybe some people are kind enough not to express
their adverse views to the chairman of the occa-
sion, but I heard the comments from a wide spectrum.
So you actually did do a wonderful job of enlight-
ening an audience which had been in a suspended
stage of indecision on Vietnam and Cambodia. In
short, you educated an important segment of the
community on the soundness of the President's policy
in the Far East.

As you told me, the Press here is far more
favorable to you and the President's policies than
the liberal press in the East. And I am sure they
will be even more so after your briefing session
with them Friday morning. My only regret of the
week was Mr. Odle's not letting me sit in on the
briefing! I suppose I should have called Herb
Klein personally, for we have been good friends
since 1959.

Perhaps you would like to know the parts of
your talk that made the most lasting impression
on the audience. It was your analytical approach
to the problems and the variety of options you
had worked out for every eventuality. It seemed
to me that everyone was greatly pleased and satis-
fied that the President was leaning on strong,
logical and imaginative shoulders. The reaction
to your answers on Kup's Show were exactly the
same.

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I cannot close without telling you how exceed-
ingly helpful Mr. Young was in making all the ar-
rangements. No one could have been more coopera-
tive and yet firm when necessary.

Again, thank you very much for making our day
a great success. The Luncheon was the largest
gathering the Harvard Club of Chicago has ever had
and you were of course the reason for it!

As I told you at the Luncheon, the President
and I have been very good friends since 1954.
I do hope you remembered to tell him that I sent
my very best regards to him. I hardly need add
that my admiration for him and what he has been
doing is unstinted.

With kindest personal regards, I am

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Assistant to the President
The White House
Washington, D.C.

KISSINGER, HENRY A., S*

JUL 17 1970

Dear Herb:

Thank you for your letter. The delay in my reply
is attributable to a somewhat less then flawless
system of getting my mail to me while the White
House is in San Clemente.

I was interested to hear of your new position,
and look forward to working with you and seeing
you outside of work.

Mr. Herbert J. Spiro
Department of State, 7260
Washington, D. C. 20520

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Henry V. Kissinger

Warm regards,

you outside of work.
and look forward to working with you and seeing
I was interested to hear of your new position.

Home is in San Clemente.
A system of getting my mail to me while the White
is attributable to a somewhat less than flawless
Thank you for your letter. The delay in my reply

Dear Help:

JUN 13 1970

KISSINGER, HENRY V.

GENERAL

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

JUN 28 1971

Dear Larry:

Thank you for your letter of July 2. I judge
that you are simply doing your duty in con-
tinuing to reiterate your invitation to me to
appear on "Meet the Press." And I know
you will understand that I am simply doing
my duty in continuing to decline your invita-
tions.

You are thoughtful to let me know that you
are keeping me in mind. I hope you will
still be asking one day when I am able to
accept.

Mr. Lawrence E. Spivak
Meet the Press
2660 Woodley Road, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20008

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SPRAGUE ELECTRIC COMPANY

NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS

ROBERT C. SPRAGUE
CHAIRMAN AND
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

November 13, 1969

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Special Assistant to the President
The White House
Washington, D. C.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Last evening's dinner meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations was, for me, a rewarding personal experience.

I had been intimately familiar with the decision-making process during President Eisenhower's Administration and it was particularly interesting to learn of the different approach that has been developed for presenting written alternatives to President Nixon for his personal decision.

You also made quite clear during your talk, and particularly during the question period, the important change in policy to meet fractionated Communism in various parts of the world rather than as a monolythic body which resulted from the "Solarium" exercise during the first year of the Eisenhower Administration and apparently consistently followed also by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

Your handling of several very difficult questions was superb.

I particularly liked the one which pointed out that perhaps the "Eastern Establishment", or at least large portions of it, was more out of touch with what the majority of Americans think about the Vietnam War than was the Office of the Executive Branch of our Government!

Altogether it was a fine performance and a very informative one.

Congratulations and best wishes.

RCS/sjl

Translation of an article
by Axel Springer

WELT am SONNTAG

July 4, 1971

[cc] GENERAL

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

July 4 and Ourselves

This Sunday the citizens of the United States of America celebrate for the 195th time their independence. The Declaration of Independence, whose chief author was Thomas Jefferson, subsequently President of the USA, became one of the important documents of human history, in language and import comparable to the Commandments of the great religions.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - ..." These sentences are the core of the Declaration, and are valid for men everywhere.

We Germans have in the past by no means always lived by these tenets, which give every man the self-evident right to live in his own way and be happy. We fell away from God, and then followed the Fall away from man, God's image.

We allowed the rights of our own people and of others to be trampled upon in our name. And the injustices grew and became murder.

In the free part of Germany we have today created once more a social order which, as does the American Declaration of Independence, respects human rights as self-evident and unalienable. The

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Constitution we have given ourselves lays down the mandate
not to cease in our efforts until the same basic rights are
once more granted to all our people: "The whole German
nation remains called upon to achieve in free self-determi-
nation the unity and liberty of Germany." (Preamble to the
West German Constitution)

And unspoken remains the hope one day to give these rights
to all other people who today still live in bondage.

These are the thoughts of a German on the Independence Day
of our American friends. Accordingly for us there can be no
pact with today's oppressors of freedom. And if such a pact
is nevertheless made by a Government, "it is the Right of
the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government..." This also stands in the Declaration of
Independence of July 4, 1776.

bcc: Mr. Henry Kissinger
Enclosure

G2\AR

Vice President and Dean
George P. Springer

Sincerely yours,

America does well.

I hope your meeting with the cultural affairs officers in Latin

comments on either one of my pieces, they would be most welcome.
informative for you and your staff. Needless to say, if you have any
canons. Nevertheless, I think that perhaps the old piece might still be
ottprint becomes a bit more obsolete than it would be from purely natural
In view of what you told me about developments in Spain, the enclosed

keep you posted of my Washington travel plans.

hope that we can continue our conversations occasionally, and I will
A note to thank you for the enjoyable talk and luncheon. I, too.

Dear John:

Washington, D.C. 20250
State Department
Educational and Cultural Affairs
Assistant Secretary of State for
Mr. John Richardson, Jr.

November 52, 1969

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO 87106

VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH
DEAN OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
TELEPHONE 505; 277-2711

March 11, 1970

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

Dear Henry:

Many good things started in Oberammergau, including my
friendship with Mike Lazna (on my second tour of duty, 1950-52).
Mike subsequently worked with me at Yale in HRAF, got a master's
degree there, and is now finishing a Ph.D. under Andrew Gyorgy
at George Washington University. Since teaching jobs are quite
scarce this year, Mike is looking for an interesting political
analyst job in Washington which can utilize his many talents.
His main area of competence is Eastern Europe.

As you know, I have not asked you for favors, but on this
matter I do. Please try. I can vouch for this man's integrity
and loyalty. If you see a chance, I'll send his vita.

We are well, though hectic. I've been in touch with John
Richardson off and on, and am going to Quito next month for a
few days. Marge sends her love, as always.

GPS/101

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KISSINGER, HENRY A

August 3, 1972

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

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Pursuant to my telegram to you on July 30 and to my conversation with your secretary yesterday afternoon, I wish to advise you in writing of those details about the sudden and tragic passing of George P. Springer.

George arrived in New Haven early in the morning of July 18, returning from his sabbatical leave in Indonesia. He had been scheduled to begin a lecture series on American Education to some 55 foreign students in the summer English Language and Orientation Program under my direction. George telephoned me upon his arrival from the home of a mutual friend, Dr. Ellis A. Perlswig (whose address and telephone number I furnished to your secretary) and indicated he would not be able to make his first lecture scheduled for that date due to his having "picked up a virus in London." On Thursday, July 20, Ellis telephoned to advise that he had sent George to Yale New Haven Hospital with what appeared to him, as a medical doctor, to be a severe case of yellow jaundice. On Saturday, July 22, Dr. Perlswig advised that George's condition had been officially diagnosed as infectious hepatitis, that he was in a coma, and stood only a very slim chance of recovery. George's condition deteriorated steadily until Thursday, July 27, at which time he rallied and conditions looked more hopeful. The following day he continued to improve, was removed from intensive care, and his condition officially listed by the hospital as fair. On Saturday afternoon, July 28, massive bleeding within the liver resumed, there was a complete breakdown of body functions, and George expired late that night. A memorial service was held on Monday and George's body was cremated yesterday, August 2, here in New Haven, where his ashes will remain.

George leaves a void in all the lives of us who knew him that will be difficult to fulfill.

WJN:ah
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

August 2, 1972

Mr. Kissinger:

Mr. Nolan gave me the following information concerning Mr. George Springer's death:

Mr. Springer was to come to New Haven to give a series of seminars this summer; however on July 18 Mr. Nolan received a call from Mr. Springer saying he was not feeling well and thought he had picked up a virus in London.

On July 20th Mr. Nolan received a call from Dr. Ellis Perlswig with whom Mr. Springer had been staying, saying that he had noticed a change in the color of George's skin, that it looked like a jaundice and he was putting him in Yale New Haven Hospital. In the hospital it was diagnosed as infectious hepatitis. An autopsy showed that it could have been peritonitis but it is not definite.

Mr. Nolan is writing you a more detailed letter concerning the sequence of events. He gave the name of Dr. Ellis A. Perlswig of 30 Bryden Terrace, Hamden, Connecticut 203/777-1876 for you to call if you want further medical information.

Irene

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