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TO: JODY WILLIAMS
FROM: RALPH OSTERLING

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DATE: February 19, 1996

JOB NAME: BOHEMIAN GROVE FUN AND FROGS

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Remarks: Thank you for the opportunity to speak about Dr. K's making a tape to imitate a frog. We look forward to receiving the tape with *ribit-ribit ribit-ribit and wreckek-wreckek*. If he could please say it at different cadences (not all 4/4 marching time) it would be great. Dr. Drewes (Bob) is looking forward to coordinating this with your good Dr.'s schedule. As soon as we receive the tape, Bob will do the sonogram comparisons. Please advise me as soon as his plans are set for The Grove so I may get it properly scheduled in the Museum Talks.

Dr. K need not sit on a lily pad or hide in the tule-rushes when he makes the tape. His office setting will be fine!!! However, if he wishes to do so, well.....

It was again a delight to chat with you and Bob Drewes is especially anxious to receive the tape.

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Ralph Osterling called to resurrect
request for HAK to make tape of "ribbit"
for Prof Drews for his museum talk at
next Grove. They're now at end of
putting schedule together so would like
a yes or no, then HAK needs to make
giving Drews ample time to run tape
thru voicegram or something...

Osterling TF 415/573-8733
FAX 415/345-7890

if HAK arrives Thurs wd like to invite
him to Camp Bella Union dinner that night

1/8/97

To: Dr. Kissinger
From: Theresa
RE: Tues., Jan. 14

Your schedule for Tues., Jan. 14

8:15am Bkfst with Robert Day @ The Brook Club
1:00pm Lunch with Richard Holbrooke [PLACE TBC]
3:00pm Mtg. with Amb. Park @ office
4:00pm Board meeting @ MMoA
8:00pm Dinner @ Peter Luger's w/NK & others

1.) Have you any interest in seeing Professor Erik Bohlin from Sweden, who has asked to speak with you about the "emerging information society" on Tuesday, Jan. 14 when he is in NY (his letter attached)?

Yes, I'll see him at ______ [Time]

✓Noted

Prefer not

2.) Tom Pepper is very anxious to see you. He says he has something to discuss in which he knows you'll have an interest. He asks if he can come in during the week of Mon., Jan. 13th, when he will just be returning from a trip to Asia.

If you would like to see him, I thought next Tuesday would be better than Thursday, since you had said you wanted to leave for Kent after lunch.

Your schedule for Thurs., Jan. 16

8:30am Bkfst by Mr. Greenberg for Mayor Yakolev @ AIG
ff: Meet with Mr. Greenberg for 15 mins.
11:00am PBS/BBC intvw on Reagan @ office
1:00pm Lunch with Leslie Stahl [PLACE TBC]
Then to Kent

Okay to schedule for Tues., Jan. 16 at 3:00 [Time]

Prefer:

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INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
AND ECONOMICS
CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Kissinger Associates

December 27, 1996

Fax: +1-212-759-0042

DEC 30 1996

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

This is to inquire your interest and availability for a brief meeting at your office, sometime on
January 14.

The purpose of the meeting would be to discuss some implications of your book on diplomacy in relationship to the emerging information society. Your book is deeply fascinating but technology and technological change are not dominant variables in your framework, as far as I can tell. Rather, the dominant variables seem to be formulation and implementation of strategy (will-power), specifically relating to the national interest. A question that seems important to me is whether technological change will condition and impact national interest or whether technology is neutral in this regard.

Specifically, I am interested to find (and create) linkages between the national interest and the emerging information society. For instance, how are policies and efforts on national and global information infrastructures (NII/GII) influenced by interests groups in various nations/regions? Moreover, how will the diffusion of information and communication technologies impact national security? Specifically, will information and communication technologies be a factor of importance for stability, for instance in China and Russia? What is the role of Trans-European Networks, mentioned in the Maastricht Treaty, for European security? Will the information infrastructure change values in such a way as to have implications for national security? More questions could be raised in this connection.

A secondary purpose of the meeting would be to elicit your interest in developing an argument along the question of national interest and the information society for a speech during a conference hosted by the International Telecommunications Society (ITS), to be held in Stockholm, June 22-24, 1998. Our meeting could serve as a starting-point for such a contribution.

Thanking you for your consideration, I remain,

Sincerely yours,

Erik Bohlin Ph.D.
Professor

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Dear Mr. Ambassador:

Dr. Kissinger will be returning late this evening to his country
home in Connecticut, where he will be until early/mid afternoon
on Monday. He can be reached at: (860)927-4661.

I will let him know to be expecting a call from the President.

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Kissinger Associates
350 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022

October 30, 1996

NOV 06 1996

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

I am writing for help and advice about a matter that is rather beyond the
ordinary. After talking with friends, including Orville Schell, I have
decided to write this letter, knowing how busy you are. I hope it does not
seem impertinent.

Twenty-five years ago you made your historic first journey to China. As a direct result of that great opening, my mother and I were in the first group of Americans invited by the Chinese to teach in China. I was posted to the southwestern city of Kunming and have maintained ever since a close relationship with China as a teacher, publisher and lecturer.

Earlier this year my wife and I (both U.S. citizens) travelled along the South China Coast, going slowly from town to town, gathering material for a book on the Treaty Ports and traditions of the seaborne people, and especially chronicling the last of the sailing junks; only about 300 of these remain. My wife is a photographer and documented the coastal life and its people.

We found ourselves on this coast during the Taiwanese presidential
elections in March, at the height of the Taiwan Straits tension.
By an extremely bad piece of luck, a local boatman put us onto a pier that
turned out to belong to a small naval station. The full story of the
incident, in detail, follows on one page, but the upshot is this:

1. My wife and I were arrested, interrogated and detained for 72 hours.

2. In spite of a careful investigation that proved our story and the mistake of the boatman, the National Security authorities confiscated our research film (106 rolls) and expelled us from China.

3. We purposely kept this incident out of the media, hoping to quietly arrange for the return of the film and not exacerbate the situation.

[LW]

4. Over the past months we have tried, without success, to retrieve the film through normal channels. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing and the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong have had no success.

5. As a last resort we are turning to you because of your understanding, long-standing contacts and good relations with China.

My wife and I have been friends of China for nearly two decades and have invested a tremendous amount of time and energy in that country. We feel that a sympathetic outside voice will help us to right this wrong and re-institute goodwill into the whole relationship.

The film is important for our research and livelihood, and represents the culmination of years of scholarship. There is nothing on it of a sensitive nature; in fact it is a record of a vanishing way of life, and an optimistic presentation of the modernization that China so earnestly desires today.

Is there anything you can do on our behalf? We will do all we can to cooperate by supplying references or more information. It is simply that traditional channels have reached a dead-end, and with China, as you know, the voice of an old friend can make all the difference.

With all respect and good wishes.

Yours truly,

Patrick Booz

Lilla Bergaliden 7
25223 Helsingborg
Sweden
tel/fax. +46-42-140308

STATEMENT OF DETENTION

At 12 noon on March 12, 1996, Patrick Booz and Ingrid Booz Morejohn were travelling in southern Guangdong Province along the China Coast. By mistake, a local boatman delivered us to a pier, where he said we could find ongoing transport. At the pier stood a civilian vehicle and a number of local people and pearl workers dressed in civilian clothes. We believed we were in a public area because of all the regular activity going on. It turns out, however, that the pier and surrounding area belonged to a naval restricted zone. Even though we walked openly and asked openly for directions, we were detained by the naval authorities and later by officers of National Security (Guojia Anquan).

During the night of March 12-13, Patrick Booz and Ingrid Booz Morejohn had all of their belongings searched and underwent a long period of interrogation. Detention in fact lasted for three days.

On that first night the authorities confiscated 106 rolls of film (professional slide film: Fuji Provia and Velvia) that had been taken during the previous seven weeks during travels to tourist and cultural sites in Hainan, Guangxi and Guangdong provinces. On March 14 we gave to the authorities a detailed 11-page list of all places visited, clearly showing that we only visited officially open areas and only photographed old buildings, temples, pagodas, fishing boats and sailing boats, scenic spots, oyster cultivation and local culture.

We were transferred on the second day from the original coastal site of Dajing to Xuwen, a county seat. Finally we were taken to the large city of Zhanjiang at the northeast end of the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong Province. Late at night on March 14 we were taken abruptly to a hotel conference room where some 20 people waited, with harsh lights, photographers and video cameras filming us. We were told by an interpreter that now we would receive our sentence from the National Security Authorities of Zhanjiang. An official read a written document stating we had entered a restricted area on March 12, had broken the law and must exit China within 24 hours and not leave the hotel. 106 rolls of exposed film were formally confiscated.

Early on March 15 we were taken to the Zhanjiang airport and put on an airplane to Hong Kong. Upon arrival in Hong Kong we went directly to the U.S. Consulate General to inform our government of this incident. Since that time, after formal requests for the return of our film, no positive results have come about.

We submit this statement hoping it will help in the restitution of our film and the creation of renewed good relations.

Patrick R. Booz

Ingrid Booz Morejohn

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305-6010

MICHAEL J. BOSKIN
TULLY M. FRIEDMAN PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
& SENIOR FELLOW, HOOVER INSTITUTION

AUG 08 1996

TEL: (415) 723-6482
FAX: (415) 723-6494
EMAIL: BOSKIN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU

August 2, 1996

The Honorable Henry Kissinger
Kissinger Associates
350 Park Avenue, 26th Floor
New York, NY 10022

Dear Henry:

It was great to see you at dinner the other night. I look forward to continuing our discussion on China. And thanks for the invitation to get together on my next visit to New York; I will take you up on it and give you as much advance notice as I can. I do want to ask one personal favor (I mentioned this to you briefly the other night).

I will be in Beijing in early September for meetings with top economic policy officials, including Zhu Rong Ji, (First Deputy Premier in charge of economic reform), and Dai Xiong Liong (Governor of the Central Bank).

While I am in Beijing, a good friend wants to arrange for me to meet and play tennis (a mutual passion) with Mr. Lie Riuyuan, Chairman of the China Peoples Consultative Committee (CPCC), also a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo. You have met him on previous visits to China (he was formerly mayor of Tianjin, and will be the host at the Asian Economic Summit you will be attending at the beginning of September). In order to conform to protocol, I understand Mr. Lie should not invite me to get together without a justifiable reason. I am told a note from you to him mentioning that you know that I will be in Beijing, that he and I share a mutual interest in tennis, and that it might be desirable for us to get together would satisfy that criterion.

Thus, I would really appreciate it (if you deem it proper), if you would drop Mr. Lie a note to that effect. I am sorry to impose upon you in this manner, but you know these formal and informal protocols far better than I.

I look forward to seeing you again soon. Best personal wishes.

NP

National Party
Nasionale Party

Provincial Leader Gauteng
Provinsiale Leier Gauteng

19 July 1996

Dr Henry A Kissinger
Twenty-Sixth Floor
350 Park Avenue
New York
New York 10022
United States of America

AUG 0 5 1996

Dear Dr Kissinger

MINISTER PIK BOTHA TRIBUTE DINNER

We wish to thank you most sincerely for the tribute to Mr Botha which you so kindly
sent us on the occasion of the above dinner.

Your tribute was read out at the dinner and was indeed one of the highlights of the evening. It was received with warm applause and much appreciation, particularly by Mr Botha himself.

The tributes received from the selected few international personalities are to be leather bound and presented to Mr Botha shortly at a private function as a memento of a memorable occasion and a reminder of the esteem in which he is held.

Thank you, once again, for your kind and prompt response and a beautiful tribute which added so much lustre to a great evening, the memories of which Mr Botha will always cherish.

Yours sincerely

R P MEYER MP
LEADER : NATIONAL PARTY IN GAUTENG

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DATE: June 19, 1996

RECIPIENT NAME: Mr. R.P. Meyer

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Dear Mr. Meyer:

I am sorry for the delay in getting this off to you. Dr. Kissinger has been spending very little time in the office in recent weeks because he is working on a new book. Your fax of today helped to remind him that time was passing and the deadline was approaching more quickly than he realized.

The original will go to you today by international airmail.

Best regards,

19-JUN-96 WED 12:13

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TO: DR HENRY KISSINGER
DR HENRY KISSINGER ASSOCIATES
NEW YORK NY

FAX: 091-212-759-0042/0041

Dear Dr Kissinger

Mr Roelof Frederik (Pik) Botha, the current Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs and former Minister of Foreign Affairs in the South African Government recently announced his retirement from politics at the end of June 1996.

After graduating in law from the University of Pretoria Mr Botha joined the South African Foreign Service in 1953 and has with great distinction actively served his country for the past 43 years.

During his diplomatic career he was, inter alia, posted to Sweden and Germany and thereafter as Ambassador to the United Nations and the United States. He was also a six-time member of the South African delegation to the United Nations General Assembly.

Minister Pik Botha has been a Member of Parliament for the past 26 years, of which 17 years were spent as South Africa's Foreign Minister (1977 until 1994), believed to be the longest serving person in this capacity in the world.

As recognition for the yeoman service rendered to South Africa for almost half a century the National Party will be appropriately honouring him at a prestigious TRIBUTE DINNER which is to be held on WEDNESDAY, 26 JUNE 1996.

We are aware that Minister Botha has over the years held you in high esteem and that he has had a close and cordial relationship with you and we would therefore make a special appeal to you to assist us in honouring him.

We will be extremely grateful and honoured if you could please let us have a personal tribute or message addressed to him, which would be read out at the Dinner. Similar invitations for tributes have been extended to a few other selected international personalities and when these are received will be suitably leather bound and presented to Minister Botha at the function.

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May we kindly request you to please fax your tribute directly to us (FAX +27-12-344-6052) as soon as possible and that it should be in your own handwriting and personally signed. The original, for binding and presentation, should please be posted by Express Airmail to our address (PO Box 1246, PRETORIA 0001 SOUTH AFRICA) in order to reach us timeously, by Friday 21 June 1996.

Kindly accept our appreciation and sincere thanks in anticipation for your co-operation in sending us a personal tribute for Minister Botha which will unquestionably add great lustre to a momentous occasion and mean so much to him.

RP MEYER
LEADER: NATIONAL PARTY - GAUTENG PROVINCE

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GORDON
BRADLEY
SOCCER, INC.

AUG 29 1996

August 23, 1996

Henry Kissinger
350 Park Avenue
Twenty Sixth Floor
New York, New York 10022

Dear Henry:

I am writing to thank you for your kind letter with regards to my induction into the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

To be recognized as someone who belongs in this prestigious institution is quite humbling to me. In effect, I believe that I was just representing people like yourself who have been instrumental in developing the game of soccer in the United States.

My family and I enjoyed a wonderful weekend in Oneonta, we visited the soccer museum, had a parade, and saw our Olympic team beat Saudi Arabia 2-0 with what appeared to be a sell out crowd in attendance. At the evening dinner, I reunited myself with many friends and accepted my Hall of Fame ring with much pride.

Again, thank you for your kind words.

Gordon Bradley

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JUL 12 1996

11th July, 1996

Dear Mr Kissinger, dear friend,

first of all, allow me to congratulate you on receiving the FIFA Order of Merit, a distinction which is awarded to a very small circle of outstanding personalities.

Needless to say that it was an unforgettable experience for me to have an hour with you. I was always a great admirer of you, and would not have imagined in my wildest dreams that I would ever have the chance to meet with you on a private basis - another reason why I am so grateful to football.

You have always been a great friend of German football, so it is quite a shame that you were not able to witness the EURO 96 final live. Winning the European Champions' title has created a wave of euphoria here in Germany. I am happy that our sport has thus been upgraded in a big way. The title, I hope, will translate into a great motivation boost for the children and youths playing football in our many amateur clubs because football, as you know, needs idols and role models.

May I get back to a request I have already voiced: The Presidential Board and the Executive Board of the DFB would like to bestow a special honour on you, in appreciation of your love to German football. The DFB Congress, planned to take place in Wiesbaden on 23/24 October, 1998 would be a very appropriate setting. We would also be greatly honoured if you were prepared to address the audience. Do not fear, it does not have to be a long presentation, but we all know that your roots are in Germany, and that you love the German language. Please send me a signal whether you see any chance of putting this plan into practise. Having you as our guest at the 1998 Congress would be the high point of my career at the top of this association. And, on a personal and confidential note, I plan to step down from office in 1998 so that your visit would have a very personal dimension for myself, too.

I wish you all the best for the future. Please give my best regards to your dear wife.

Very truly yours

Egidius Braun

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Mr.
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11th September, 1996

Dear Mr. Kissinger, dear friend,

mit außerordentlich großer Freude habe ich Ihre Botschaft empfangen, daß Sie dem
Deutschen Fußball-Bund die Ehre erweisen, dem nächsten Bundestag im Oktober 1998 in
Wiesbaden beizuwohnen. Ich schätze mich ungemein glücklich über diese positive Antwort.
Aus meinem letzten Schreiben wissen Sie, wie sehr ich Sie schon seit vielen Jahren
bewundere und als welch großartiges Erlebnis ich unser Zusammentreffen in England
daher empfunden habe.

Leider konnten Sie - zu Ihrem großen Bedauern, wie Sie formulieren - das Finale mit
unserer Nationalmannschaft in der besonderen Atmosphäre des Londoner Wembley-
Stadions nicht live verfolgen.

Schon in absehbarer Zeit, am 9. November 1996, steht für unser Team das einzige weitere
Heim-Länderspiel dieses Jahres auf dem Programm. Gegner in der Qualifikation zur
Weltmeisterschaft 1998 in Frankreich ist in Nürnberg, also quasi in Ihrer Heimat, die
Mannschaft Nordirlands. Zu diesem Ereignis möchte ich Sie persönlich, aber auch im
Namen von DFB-Präsidium und -Vorstand, sehr herzlich einladen. Das Franken-Stadion
zählt zweifellos zu den schönsten Fußball-Schauplätzen in Deutschland, und gemeinsam
mit unserer begeisterungsfähigen Fans hoffen wir dort auf einen stimmungsvollen Abend.
UEFA-Präsident Lennart Johansson würde ebenfalls gerne nach Nürnberg kommen, um mit
Ihnen zusammenzutreffen.

Vielleicht ist ein Besuch dieses wichtigen Länderspiels für Sie trotz Ihres dichtgedrängten
Terminkalenders möglich. Geben Sie mir doch bitte ein Signal, ob Sie unserer Einladung
auch in diesem Fall folgen können. Bei dieser Gelegenheit könnten wir gleichzeitig unseren
persönlichen Austausch fortführen, den ich - wie schon gesagt - als so angenehm und
eindrucksvoll empfunden habe. Mit einem Wiedersehen in Nürnberg würden Sie mir erneut
eine große Freude bereiten.

Verbunden mit meinen allerbesten Grüßen an Ihre Gemahlin wünsche ich Ihnen weiterhin
alles Gute.

Mit herzlichen Grüßen

Egidius Braun

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FROM : YELLAND (POST)

PHONE NO. : 212 930 8280

Jan. 30 1996 04:41PM P2

Henry Kissinger is right. NIXON is not history. It is a dramatic portrait set against a historical landscape; a film that attempts to interpret a life, to get at the tragedy of a man who shaped an era the historical truth of which remains unsettled. And this latter fact is due in part, at least, to Henry Kissinger's continuing efforts to revise and re-interpret his own role in that period.

When one compares Dr. Kissinger's own account of the Nixon presidency with those of Walter Issacson and Seymour Hersh for example, very different impressions arise. Dr. Kissinger raises the question of how one is to know which portions of NIXON are imaginary and which are real. Yet a more pressing historical question is: Which portions of Dr. Kissinger's version of Nixon's White House are self-serving and which are real?

Dr. Kissinger often appears in the writings of historians and his Nixon-era contemporaries as scheming, petty, and petulant, by turns obsequious and mocking, fawning and spiteful. Nixon himself told John Ehrlichman that Kissinger's behavior was so erratic that he might need psychiatric help, and Bob Haldeman described the Doctor's manic tirade about Daniel Ellsberg as "beyond belief". The Nixon White House, including Dr. Kissinger's role in it, was characterized not exclusively by sober debate and decision-making, as the Doctor would have us believe, but also by vindictiveness, back-stabbing, and paranoia. We did not invent the notion, expressed in the film, that Dr. Kissinger tapped his office's phones, that he scorned President Nixon in the basest terms behind his back, and that he was the source of many of the leaks to the press that the Plumbers were created to plug. Indeed, to the extent that Dr. Kissinger actively contributed to the atmosphere of duplicity and distrust in the Nixon White House, one might argue that he was one of the architects of Watergate.

The Doctor declares that I "thrash between the Nixon of (my) preconceptions and the Nixon (I) encountered in (my) research", producing a "host of inaccuracies". He then parades these heinous errors, which range from our using Pat Nixon's youthful nickname, Buddy, to our depicting Dr. Kissinger holding a cigar. If Dr. Kissinger

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can find nothing more substantial than this to accuse me of, I ought
to feel vindicated indeed.

But there is a greater truth here that Dr. Kissinger wishes to
cover up. He argues that Nixon inherited a "real and not imaginary"
problem in the American public's judgment "that, as fought, the
(Vietnam) war was unwinnable". According to even so sympathetic a
Nixon biographer as Stephen Ambrose, this was not only the public's
judgment - it was Nixon's as well. Professor Ambrose states that as
early as January 1969, Nixon knew the war could not be won. If that
is the case, then fully half of the names on the Vietnam Memorial are
those of Americans who died despite that knowledge.

I suspect that Dr. Kissinger must have known it, too. Yet both
he and President Nixon continued for years to prosecute an
unwinnable war, while actively lying to the public about their hopes
and aims. For this very reason Dr. Kissinger was furious when Dr.
Daniel Ellsberg published the Pentagon Papers, which threatened to
expose those lies, and he argued in the grossest language that the
reputation of his former colleague should be ruined in retaliation.

I was not "a youthful radical Vietnam protester" as Dr. Kissinger states, but a wounded and decorated combat infantryman who volunteered for the war. I do not forget or forgive the deaths of friends that resulted from the Nixon-Kissinger war policy, nor do I forget that Dr. Kissinger accepted his Nobel Peace Prize in the shadow of the savage Christmas bombing of Hanoi, and with the deaths of those young men and women on his head.

Dr. Kissinger derides as simplistic the "yearning" of a young
student in the film that the war be stopped, implying with
characteristic hubris that for reasons of practical politics beyond her
ken it could not have been. Yet, given that Nixon knew the war could
not be won, the politics that forced him and Dr. Kissinger to continue
it were "beast-like" as we suggest in our film. This was a beast that
that was nourished as much by the demons in Richard Nixon as by
the Machiavellian geopolitics of Henry Kissinger.

It is never the Nixons or Nobel laureates who pay the price of
grand global politics! it is the simplistic, "yearning" youths who
believe those statesmen even when they lie. Yet at some point those

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youths - millions of them - saw through the Nixon-Kissinger posturings, ceased to believe their lies, and helped force an end to their forlorn war. And it is clear from his article that Dr. Kissinger still wishes to malign them.

Dr. Kissinger dismisses our metaphor of "the Beast", yet by his continued collusion in an unwinnable war, he served its purposes. Though I mourn those young lives that were lost, I am glad, as Richard Nixon says in the film, that "History depends on who writes it." I should not wish Dr. Kissinger to have that field to himself.

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Helen Gurley Brown, Editor • 224 West 57th Street, New York, New York, 10019, (212) 649-3555

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August 13, 1996

AUG 14 1996

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

Part of your fan club met Saturday night up in the Berkshires -- we were having dinner with Gene Shalit, the long-time movie critic on The Today Show, and he told us a wonderful story about you. Gene avers that he has only _been_ to five dinner parties in his entire grown-up life and at one of them, when you were Secretary of State, he hadn't said a word all night -- there were about 14 guests. After dinner you said to him, "Mr. Shalit, we haven't heard a word from you all night . . . is something on your mind?" and he said yes, that he was preoccupied because his son had to make up his mind whether to enter Harvard University or Reed College in Oregon, he had been accepted by both, and was simply waffling all over the map. You said, "Mr. Shalit, would you like me to call him?" and Gene said absolutely. You did and Gene virtually repeated every word that you said to his son these light-years later . . . you told the kid that if he entered Harvard and changed his mind a year later and went someplace else, that was fine but if he went to Reed College _first_ and had a change of conviction, they would never let him _be_ in Harvard . . . you get one shot and that's it. Apparently you were so persuasive, as a father could never be, he signed right up at Harvard the next day which, of course, changed how his life _might have_ turned out. I wasn't surprised to hear the story . . . sounded very _you_ and then I got equal time to tell him how wonderful all the Cosmo _women_ think you are.

Don't answer this letter . . . it isn't required.

Dr. Henry Kissinger
350 Park Avenue, 26th floor
New York, New York 10022

HGB/rc

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