KISSINGER, HENRY A.

JAN 31 1972

Dear Pete:

Just a short note to congratulate you on
your new assignment.. I think it an honor
well deserved and only regret that we will
probably have fewer official occasions to
work together.

May I also take this opportunity to thank
you for your note about the Press Club
speech. Your words were most kind and
I appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Honorable Peter G. Peterson
The White House
Washington, D. C.

jlp:1/28/72

THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20230

EXECUTIVE

FEB 11-1/1 KISSINGER, HENRY A.

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

PERSONAL--EYES ONLY

November 15, 1972

MEMORANDUM FOR HONORABLE HENRY A. KISSINGER

FROM: Peter G. Peterson

The attached letter speaks for itself.

The *National Enquirer* is I'm told the largest circulation newspaper in the country--something over three million.

It used to deal with low-order but high-interest subjects including sex, crime, etc.

In the last year or two, it has done an editorial about-face and stresses middle-class values.

The fellow who runs it, Gene Pope, was one of my very closest friends in college, and I am sure that it would be a feather in their cap since they have up to now only interviewed "lesser administration notables" such as Mrs. Nixon, Vice President Agnew and Attorney General Kleindienst.

Let me know if you are willing to see Mr. Dormann.

Attachment

PERSONAL--EYES ONLY

EXECUTIVE

FEB 11-1 KISSINGER, HENRY A.

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

PERSONAL--EYES ONLY

November 15, 1972

FROM: Peter G. Peterson

The National Enquirer is I'm told the largest circulation newspaper in the country--something over three million.

Attachment

PERSONAL--EYES ONLY

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

PERSONAL

December 1, 1972

FROM: Peter G. Peterson

One of the nicest things I've ever heard about you--
being compared to airline hijackers and rapists.

'Ultimate Aphrodisiac'

SIR: Henry Kissinger has been putting forth a mis-
guided and dangerous notion that apparently is shared
by some airline hijackers and rapists. Power over
other people is not "the ultimate aphrodisiac." Love is.
Monroe H. Freedman.

11/29/72 STAR-NEWS

OFFICIAL, 9/8/70 jlp

Type of Request & Date

EXECUTIVE
FG 6-11-1 /K
KISSINGER, HENRY A. /P*

Peterson

(Last name and pending date)

Name: Rudolph Peterson

Request: Talked with Mr. Kissinger in California. Mr. Kissinger "thought it wise" for Kissinger, Peterson and Shultz to sit down in the near future and talk about plans. Peterson is going to be in Washington on Sept. 18 before leaving the country for a month. He could come a day early or even two days early if Mr. K. and Mr. Shultz were free. He will be leaving at noon on the 18th (but has a meeting that morning so is not available) and will be back in Washington for only one day when he returns (October 16). (Peterson believes that if Mr. Kissinger thinks the subject of the meeting is worth discussing he will want to pursue it before Peterson leaves for abroad; after will be too late)

DRY's Recommendation:

Office: 415/622-6011

Home: 415/658-2461

HAK's Answer:

Date and Time: 6-30 9/14?

Party Contacted:

Additional Information:

Resolution:

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Washington, D.C. 20520

EXECUTIVE

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

March 19, 1970

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
% Miss Diane Matthews
Executive Office of the President
White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

As you may know, William B. Macomber, Jr., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration, at the Secretary's direction on January 14, 1970, launched a study directed at the reform and revitalization of the Department of State. To assist him, thirteen task forces have been set up to examine and report on the various aspects of reform. The Secretary of State hopes through these task forces to permit the Department and the Foreign Service to participate directly in the task of reform.

I have been asked by Mr. Macomber to head a task force studying the Stimulation of Creativity in the Department of State and the Foreign Service. We are beginning our work by seeking to identify obstacles to creative thinking in the Department. As the first phase of the effort to identify obstacles to creativity, we are investigating the extent to which the leadership of the Department has recognized the importance of creativity in foreign affairs work and has sought to establish a climate conducive to creative thinking.

The Task Force believes that you are unusually well qualified to comment on this aspect of its work and that your views would be extremely helpful to it in reaching a balanced judgment. Hence, I am taking the liberty of soliciting your cooperation. A member of our task force will be in touch with you within the next few days to determine when you might be available for an interview. I am enclosing a list of questions which delineate the areas of our interest.

I deeply appreciate your cooperation in this important effort of the Department.

RECEIVED

APR 7 1970

CENTRAL FILES

Enclosure:
Questionnaire

Task Force VII
---
Stimulation of Creativity
---
Questionnaire

1. From your knowledge of the Department did the top leadership encourage or create a climate conducive to creativity? What was the attitude of the President and his staff to new ideas from the Department. If your experience spans more than one administration, describe the differences in your answer to this and all the following questions.

2. How receptive was the State Department leadership to proposals for administrative and substantive policy innovations coming from within the Department or from Foreign Service posts? How was this receptivity expressed? By request for ideas, by positive encouragement of differing views, etc.?

3. How receptive was the leadership to ideas from outside the government?

4. How receptive was the Departmental structure and the Foreign Service to creative suggestions in policy innovations coming from the political leadership of the White House, the Department, the Congress, other government agencies or from outside the government?

5. If the leadership did succeed in encouraging a creative climate, how was this accomplished?

a. through institutional means, i.e. the creation of new bureaucratic mechanisms for policy planning, administrative planning, coordination and implementation? How important a role has the Policy Planning Council played? Assuming that the role they have played has varied in different administrations, why?

b. through personal ad hoc means, i.e. reliance on key individuals spread throughout the structure, without regard to bureaucratic channels?

c. through a mixture of the two, involving the use of existing institutions and delegation of authority? Has there been a period when the staff of the Department of State was used the way you thought it was designed to be?

d. from what points in the structure did creative ideas come during your experience: the Under Secretary, the Assistant Secretaries, the Country Director, the Senior Officer?

e. at what points in the structure were creative ideas blocked?

6. Whom do you regard as the truly "creative" people in the Department of State, in all the senses we have described, during your experience? Why were they effective? Was it courage? Quickness? Knowledge of the bureaucracy? Freshness of approach? Originality of concept?

7. What have been the inhibiting factors to the creative process during your experience?

8. To what extent have external factors, crisis pressure, domestic political pressure, public opinion, etc., affected the creative process during your experience? Put another way, to what extent is creativity directly related to historical circumstances; e.g., was it the post World War II environment that gave impetus to the ideas of the Marshall Plan, Containment, etc., rather than a "receptivity" of the then existing leadership to new ideas?

9. While you were in or associated with the Department of State what successful creative innovations, both major and minor, were you connected with? How did these measures get adopted? the men behind them? the pressing needs of the time? the receptivity of the leadership? institutional freedom, etc.?

10. What unsuccessful or erroneous creative innovations were promulgated in the Department during your time? How did they get through?

11. Based on your experience, especially any service abroad, to what extent are other Foreign Ministries looked to for creativity in policy formulation and implementation? How successful are they and what accounts for such success as they may have.

12. What are your recommendations for the future?

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

September 22, 1972

Dear Paul:

Mr. Kissinger asked me to write to you in response to your letter of September 18. He was honored that you chose to study him for a class project.

I am attaching a biographical data sheet and a photograph of Mr. Kissinger in the hopes that these will be helpful to you. Mr. Kissinger wishes you well in your studies.

Mr. Paul Phillips
59-19 151 Avenue
Howard Beach, New York
11414

RECEIVED
SEP 23 1972