HENRY A. KISSINGER

March 17, 1982

Dear Patrick:

Thank you for the generous words of
encouragement in your letter of February
23 regarding my heart surgery. It was
good of you to think of me and I appreciate
your thoughtfulness.

My doctors have indeed assured me that
my recovery is as uneventful as can be ex-
pected and that I shall soon be resuming
my normal schedule. It has certainly not
affected my propensity to dispense advice!

The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy
United States Senate
Washington, D. C. 20510

MAR 17 1982

LEBER, Georg; German trade unionist and politician; b. 7 Oct. 1920, Obertiefebach; s. of Jakob Leber and Elisabeth (née Geis) Leber; m. Erna Maria Wilfing 1942; one s.; ed. primary and commercial schools in Limburg (Lahn); soldier 1939-45; joined trade union and Social Democrat Party (SPD) 1947; trade union leader, Limburg 1949; Chair. of local branch of SPD 1951; Ed. Der Grundstein (trade union paper) 1952; mem. Man. Cttee. Bau-Stein-Erden Trade Union 1953-57, Chair. 1957; mem. Man. Cttee. Fed. of German Trade Unions 1957; mem. Man. Cttee. of Int. Federation of Building and Timber Workers and Pres. Joint Cttee. of Trade Unions of Building and Timber Trade in European Common Market 1957; mem. Bundestag 1957-; mem. European Parl. 1958-59; mem. Management Cttee. SPD Faction in Bundestag 1961-, mem. Party Management 1961-; Fed. Minister of Transport 1966-69, of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications 1969-72, of Defence 1972-78; Vice-Pres. German Bundestag 1979-; Grosses Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband. Address: c/o Bundeshaus, 5300 Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany.

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Prime Minister.
Singapore

20 February 1982

Dear Henry

I was travelling when I read news of your triple bypass. On the eve of the operation, your wisecrack that contrary to conclusions in some quarters, you do have a heart and that it was in need of repair, was classic Henry Kissinger cool. It showed that your mind was not in need of repair.

Next, I read that the bypass had been successful. I cheered for you. Although it is now a routine operation, nevertheless, it is comforting to know that everything went as planned, and you should be up and about in a few weeks.

Do not trouble to reply. It is intended to speed you on to recovery.

Your two articles on the Administration's response to events in Poland startled me. First, because you had decided to go public on your disagreement with the Administration's policies. Second, because to have Poland declared in default will have widespread repercussions on Western banks. I doubt if anyone can persuade the West German Government or banks, at this stage, to contemplate applying a scalding astringent on their self-inflicted open wounds. That the Western Alliance is in disarray, and attempts to pretend that it is not, must amuse the Soviets. Hence, like you, I am not amused.

With all best wishes to Nancy and you from Choo and me.

Dr Henry A Kissinger
Suite 520
1800 K Street
Washington DC 20006

HENRY A. KISSINGER

March 18, 1982

Dear Morry:

This is the first chance I have had to write
to thank you for the unique homecoming gift,
your thoughtful letter to Nancy and your calls
to my office while I was in the hospital.
The goldfish and I are doing beautifully.
Your good wishes and encouragement meant a
great deal to Nancy and me and we much appre-
ciated your thinking of us.

I am sorry I won't be able to attend the Bar
Association's conference and tribute to Dean
Rusk at the University of Georgia, but I
will send a message as you suggested.

We hope to see you and Mary soon.

Morris I. Leibman, Esquire
Sidley & Austin
One First National Plaza
Chicago, Illinois 60603

MAR 24 1982

MORRIS I. LEIBMAN

ONE FIRST NATIONAL PLAZA
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60603

February 16, 1982

Dear Nancy,

Suzanne McFarland, I'm sure, has told
you of my calls. I have not wanted to bother
you when you are under such pressure and have
so many things on your mind.

The moment I heard the news I, of course,
remembered back to my own illness and how thoughtful
you and Henry had been to me. Know that our thoughts
and prayers are with you both and that I'm sure
Henry will have a complete and total recovery.

Tell him that since he is so much
younger than I and that the situation was infinitely
less dangerous than mine, I know he will be up and
around in no time. I have a partner who has just
had a triple by-pass and was back lifting weights
after 4 months.

I had a wonderful nurse from New York
Hospital who accompanied me to Florida. She had
also been on the staff for the Shah. She is a
wonderful and most capable person and if you need
someone of such qualifications, please let me know.

We send you our warmest regards and
best love.

FEB 22 1982

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EDWARD H. LEVI
4950 CHICAGO BEACH DRIVE
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60615

MAR 19 1982

Hon. Henry Kissinger,
Center for Strategic and International Studies
1800 K.St. N.W.
Washington,D.C. 20006

Dear Henry:

Kate and I, along with thousands (perhaps I should say millions) of others have been much concerned about your operation and delighted at what we hear has been such a quick recovery. I know from others, although their experience may not be typical, that the few weeks immediately after the operation can be painful. I suppose this may be an understatement. This note is just a way of expressing our affection and admiration, and to express our relief that no doubt you will now be doing all the athletic things that those who go through this operation seem to do after it has been successfully accomplished.

I want to send our special congratulations to Nancy. I have had similar experiences with that choice group at the airport.. I am a coward, so I didn't react as she did, but it is time someone did.

I am including with this letter some trivial but pointed remarks I made at the investitute of Robert Bork as a judge of the Court of Appeals in your district. I hope they may amuse you.

Talk Given at the Investiture of Robert Bork

Edward H. Levi

My credential for speaking is that I am a friend of Robert Bork. My association with him began years ago when he was a student at The University of Chicago. Later, for a brief period, we were colleagues in the Justice Department. I take great pride in this friendship and in this occasion. This ceremony also inevitably evokes, for those of us who knew and loved her, vivid memories of Claire Bork. This is a time which surely belongs to the history of her life.

The investiture of a judge of the United States Court of Appeals is a reminder of the unique authority and power exercised by the federal judiciary, in American government, and over so many of the affairs of life -- authority and power greater and more pervasive than that possessed by courts in any other country we would regard as modern and in our tradition. Indeed, to give full recognition to judicial government, we must use a model, which is close to or at least has strong elements of, a theocracy. Learned Hand had a description of this model in his warning prediction of a rule by Platonic Guardians.

It is difficult to believe the founders of our republic anticipated such a scope of authority and power for our federal judiciary. Alexander Hamilton's famous essay in Number 78 of the Federalist Papers described "The judiciary [as] beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power." The thrust of Hamilton's essay was the need to protect this weak branch from the attacks of the executive and legislative departments; hence his advocacy of permanent tenure for the judges. Often unnoticed, is Hamilton's special reference to a quotation from Montesquieu to support and explain this view of the weakness of the judiciary. It is an extraordinary reference. Montesquieu writing about the conditions necessary for political liberty, with special reference to the constitution of England, is quoted by Hamilton as saying "Of the three powers [of government], the judiciary is next to nothing." The judges in Montesquieu's words, were "no more than the mouth that pronounced the words of the law, mere passive beings . . ." The great Montesquieu, recently described by a leading

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It is a rare privilege to be present at this ceremonial entrance
of Robert Bork into the wonderful world of judging. Some years ago there
was a strange debate in the Natural Law Forum between Professor Fuller
and Professor Nagel [Fuller, the lawyer -- Nagel, the philosopher] which
seemed to be an argument about the relationship of values and objective
facts, but in which Professor Fuller set forth a view of the progress
of law as the collaborative articulation of shared purposes. I regret
to say that Professor Nagel found it quite odd that one could claim that
there was such a collaboration among judges, distanced in time by many
years, indeed not alive at the same time, and writing their opinions with
respect to different factual situations and with the conditions of life
considerably changed. But I think Professor Fuller was right, and it is
the strength of our legal process that this is true. I know that on this
occasion a strong voice is being added to this eminent court with its great
tradition and to the company of judges long since past and yet to come.

2/19/82