DINERS/FUGAZY TRAVEL & INCENTIVE COMPANY

645 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10022

(212) 759-1012

WILLIAM DENIS FUGAZY
PRESIDENT

August 3, 1972

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Assistant to the President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

I have talked about you so much with our mutual friends that I really feel that I know you.

Recently, during my visit to Paris with Bob Hope, I had occasion to stay at Dick Watson's residence while you were there. I did, however, want to tell you how impressed I was in meeting your two children, Elizabeth and David. David had asked me to introduce him to Bob, and both Bob and I were impressed with his intelligence and personality that I thought you should know, as I am sure you are very proud of him as well as Elizabeth. It was his birthday and Bob and I had an opportunity to celebrate it with your family.

I understand that you were there for some time, but I know how busy you were. I do hope I will have the opportunity of meeting you in the foreseeable future.

WDF/rbt

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SUBJ: JSP DIET MEMBER KAWAKAMI REQUESTS APPOINTMENT WITH
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SUMMARY: JSP DIET MEMBER KAWAKAMI, IN U.S. NOV 19-22 TO PARTICIPATE WITH OTHER DIET MEMBERS IN JAPANESE TV SHOW FOLLOWING ISSUANCE OF JOINT COMMUNIQUE, HAS REQUESTED APPOINTMENT NOV 22 WITH DR. KISSINGER. EMBASSY RECOMMENDS AGAINST APPOINTMENT BUT HOPES DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS CAN MEET ALL FOUR UP AND COMING DIET MEMBERS PARTICIPATING IN PANEL. END SUMMARY.

1. SOCIALIST (JSP) DIET MEMBER TAMIO KAWAKAMI INFORMED EMB NOV 12 OF VISIT TO U.S. NOV 19-22 AFTER SHORT TRIP TO WEST GERMANY AND REQUESTED HELP IN ARRANGING NOV 22 APPOINTMENT WITH DR KISSINGER. KAWAKAMI SAID JSP INTERNATIONAL BUREAU MEMBER FUJIMAKI, AS "OLD FRIEND" OF KISSINGER, HAS ALSO SENT TELEGRAM DIRECTLY ASKING FOR APPOINTMENT. (UNDERSTAND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S PASSIM ALSO MAKING SAME REQUEST ON KAWAKAMI'S BEHALF.) EMBOFF POINTED OUT DIFFICULTY OR ARRANGING MEETING DURING PRIMIN'S VISIT BUT PROMISED TO RELAY REQUEST TO DEPARTMENT.

2. OTHER SOURCES INFORMED EMB THAT MAIN PURPOSE KAWAKAMI'S TRIP IS TO PARTICIPATE WITH OTHER DIET MEMBERS (LDP'S NOBORU TAKESHITA, DSP'S YOSHIKATA ASO, KOMEITO'S YOSHIYUKI ASAI) IN FUJI TV-SPONSORED PANEL DISCUSSION IN WASHINGTON IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING ISSUANCE OF JOINT COMMUNIQUE. EMB REGARDS KAWAKAMI AS RESPECTED SCHOLARLY MODERATE (HOLDING VIEWS FAR DIFFERENT FROM THOSE OF JSP LEADERSHIP) WHO IS CAPABLE OF PROVIDING STIMULATING INSIGHT INTO JAPANESE POLITICS. NEVERTHELESS, EMB REGRETFULLY

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RECOMMENDS AGAINST ARRANGING MEETING WITH DR. KISSINGER AT THIS TIME. IF APPOINTMENT GRANTED, KAWAKAMI'S POLITICAL RIVALS ON PANEL CERTAIN TO LEARN OF IT AND TO REQUEST "EQUAL TIME". IN ANY CASE, EMB RECOMMENDS DECISION BE TRANSMITTED TO KAWAKAMI BY PERSONAL CALL FROM LONG TIME ACQUAINTANCE EA/J'S ULRICH STRAUS. KAWAKAMI STAYING COMMODORE HOTEL NEW YORK NOV 19 AND STATLER HILTON WASHINGTON NOV 20.

3. EMB UNDERSTANDS THAT SOME CONGRESSIONAL PARTICIPANTS IN FEBRUARY U.S.-JAPAN PARLIAMENTARY EXCHANGE ARRANGING LUNCHEON FOR DIET MEMBERS NOV 20. EMB BELIEVES THAT DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS WOULD, IF TIME PERMITS, FIND IT WORTHWHILE TO MEET WITH THESE UP AND COMING POLITICIANS. LDP'S TAKESHITA IS HIGHLY REGARDED MEMBER OF SATO FACTION. FUJI TV OFFICIALS HAVE NAME OF EA/J'S BREER AS POSSIBLE CONTACT POINT. EXEMPT. MEYER

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March 20, 1970

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Herewith I enclose a photo of the late Mr. Asanuma, Chairman of JSP Central Executive Committee, and you when you had a talk with him in September 1960 a couple of weeks before he was assassinated. Recently I dug up the picture out of my huge dusty pile of documents and papers in my house. I have forgotten whether I sent you this picture. But this picture is so historic I am sending you anyway. In this photo you will find how you and I were still young ten years ago.

I left the Socialist Party to get a job at a private university. One of my Harvard Seminar Alumni of 1953, Mr. Nakasone, now Minister of Defense of the Sato Cabinet, is concurrently President of Takushoku University. He invited me to his university to work for its institute on international affairs.

Taking advantage of my present leisurely life (which would be envied by the Assistant to the President), I decided to write a book in English and to learn Korean and Chinese. I hope my book will be finished before Mr. Kissinger leaves the White House to go back to Harvard or to...a small university in Arizona as NEWSWEEK once reported.

Herzliche Grüsse.