June Goldsmith
Mary K. Boland
cc: Dr. Klaaringer

Crimson.

Harvard students, which was fulfilled in the <u>Harvard</u>
have not, you may be assured by the attached letter from
for a same McLean Pollay. In such event, in case they
already sent you the attached barony on the Committee
No doubt Henry Klaaringer or someone else has
on McLean Pollay

Subject: Harvard Students Attitudes
From: Roamell B. Perkins

To: The Governor

April 22, 1965

Excerpt From
"Rochester Times Union"

February 26, 1962

"DO LIFEBOATS ENCOURAGE ATTACKS BY ICEBERGS?

"The protests of some groups against civil defense fallout shelters were parodied recently in this letter from four Harvard students to The Harvard Crimson, student newspaper. In it, they recommend a 'Committee for a Sane Navigational Policy.'

"To the editors:

It has been brought to our attention that certain elements among the passengers and crew favor the installation of 'life' boats on this ship. These elements have advanced the excuse that such action would save lives in the event of a maritime disaster such as the ship striking an iceberg. Although we share their concern, we remain unalterably opposed to any consideration of their course of action for the following reasons:

(1) This program would lull you into a false sense of security.

(2) It would cause undue alarm and destroy your desire to continue your voyage in this ship.

(3) It demonstrates a lack of faith in our captain.

(4) The apparent security which 'life' boats offer will make our navigators reckless.

(5) These proposals will distract our attention from more important things, i.e., building unsinkable ships. They may even lead our builders to false economies and the building of ships that are actually unsafe.

(6) In the event of being struck by an iceberg (we will never strike first) the 'life' boats would certainly sink along with the ship.

(7) If they do not sink, you will only be saved for a worse fate, inevitable death on the open sea.

(A) If they do not aim, you will only be saved aint along with the ship.

(B) In the event of being attacked by an foeepet, they may even lend our builders to lslae economies and the ship from more important cunna, i.e., 

(C) These proposals will distract our attention from our navigation's reckless.

(D) The inherent security which 'life' posts offer.

(E) It demonstrates a lack of faith in our own deare to continue your voyage in this ship.

(F) If would cause much carnage and death now sense of security.

(G) This program would fill you into a lslae section for the following reasons:

situatly opposed to any consideration of their concerns of our foeepet. Although we share their concern, we remain un- in the event of a maritime disaster and so the ship striking have advanced the excuse that such section would serve five installation of 'life' posts on this ship. These elements certain elements among the passengers and crew favor the

"To the editors:

for a Gene Maybaron's letter.

Student inember. In it, they recommend a Committee letter from Tom Harvard students to The Harvard Club, defense staff of shelters were branded recently in ship. The protests of some koreba against civil

"DO IT! BOATS ENCOURAGE ATTACKS BY ICEBERG?

February 5G, 1935
"Requester Times Union"
Except From

(8) If you should be washed ashore on a desert island, you will be unaccustomed to the hostile environment and will surely die of exposure.

(9) If you should be rescued by a passing vessel, you would spend a life of remorse mourning over your lost loved ones.

(10) The panic engendered by a collision with an iceberg would destroy all vestiges of civilized human behaviour. We shudder at the vision of one man shooting another for the possession of a 'life' boat.

(11) Such a catastrophe is too horrible to contemplate. Anyone who does contemplate it obviously advocates it.

Committee for a Sane Navigational Policy.
(Stephan A. Khinoy '62, Robert Fresco '63, Richard W. Bulliet '62, Donald M. Scott '62.)"

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DEBEVOISE, PLIMPTON & MCLEAN

320 PARK AVENUE
NEW YORK 22, N. Y.

May 9, 1962

Miss Mary K. Boland
22 West 55th Street
New York 19, New York

Dear Mary K:

Thanks for your note of May 7. I appreciate greatly your efforts to complete the four items you refer to, but *please stay alive in the effort!* The fourth one can easily wait, and the third can be brief.

I am delighted that you and your mother will be able to have a trip together, and I hope you can get lots of diversion and relaxation.

I have conferred with John Deardourff, who has accepted the post of Director of the Research Unit (a move you have long advocated), and he and I wish to assure you of a job with the Research Unit upon your return.

It is impossible for me to outline what your specific duties would be, although I hope they would capitalize on your recent experience in domestic affairs, your interest in political matters, and your facility for handling assignments in a variety of fields. Your assignments and work would be 100% subject to John's direction, and his authority as to all phases of the operation would have to be fully recognized.

DEBEVOISE, PLIMPTON & MCLEAN

320 PARK AVENUE
NEW YORK 22

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CHARLES ANGULO
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ELI WHITNEY DEBEVOISE
EDWARD C. MCLEAN
MARVIN LYONS
SAMUEL E. GATES
SIDNEY G. EDWARDS
OSCAR M. RUEBHAUSEN
A. FAIRFIELD DANA
THOMAS T. RICHMOND
WILLIAM EVERDELL III
CHARLES I. PIERCE, JR.
EARLE J. STARKEY
D. BRET CARLSON
GEORGE N. LINDSAY, JR.
STANLEY R. RESOR
JAMES B. WELLES, JR.
ROSWELL B. PERKINS
ROBERT B. VON MEHREN
HAROLD H. HEALY, JR.
JOSEPH BARBASH
CHESTER BILLINGS, JR.
MICHAEL H. GOFF
WILLIAM B. MATTESON

May 14, 1962

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Harvard University
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

Deardourff has accepted and will be on the
job as soon as the Congressional session is over.
I think it will be the beginning of an effective
operation.

June was very cooperative in not complaining
about Ann working on the Colorado trip. She is now, as
you know, working on trade policy, but NAR beat her to
the punch with a statement in answer to a question on
his trip. I think this highlights the importance of
our having recommended positions in as many fields as
possible even before we've done all the back-up work.
The "Current Positions Notebook" is going to be fine
in this connection.

Other matters:

(1) Announcement of Deardourff. I've told
June and Mary K. that Deardourff accepted. I'm sure
the others know. I have told Mary K. in no uncertain
terms who will be in charge. See my attached letter.
I gather you've already made the "Director's" role
clear to June. Perhaps we should confirm it all in a
memo later, along the lines I once drafted for Jay, but
with your suggested revisions.

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

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May 14, 1962

(2) Washington Handouts. We've had many dis-
cussions at 55th Street as to the value, or lack of it,
of the Departmental handouts. See June's Dec. 14, 1961
memo enclosed. Do you have any views?

(3) Consultant List. I think we're already
in high gear for 1964. I am going to try to formalize
a list of consultants in the domestic fields, and start
pulling them closer to the operation. Is there any
reason to do the same on the foreign side?

(4) Laos. Chris Phillips, formerly of the State Department and U.N., and I talked Friday night re the need for a strong Republican position on Laos. Is there any chance NAR could come out with one -- now, while JFK is still floundering?

(5) Bi-weekly luncheons with George Hinman.
I would like to institute a bi-weekly, or at least
monthly, luncheon meeting between ourselves and George
Hinman and possibly others. Is there any chance you
could set up a schedule of dates now?

(6) Iran Paper #2. I don't know whether Ann
Black's Report No. 2 is in final yet, but I thought I'd
make a few comments:

(a) Is it a bona fide "position", and if so,
how long can we go on using it as a position, to
say:

"The U.S. should critically examine its
policies toward Iran to ensure that they
are aimed at making [etc.]" (see p. 11)?

(b) Isn't the prose terribly turgid and
mealymouthed? For example: (also p. 11)

"The criteria of our economic policy must
therefore take all three sectors into
account to maximize our support of economic
growth without exceeding the rate at which
society can adapt to it in terms of new
skills, new practices and new institutions,

DEBEVOISE, PLIMPTON & MCLEAN

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THOMAS T. RICHMOND
WILLIAM EVERDELL JR.
CHARLES I. PIERCE, JR.
EARLE J. STARKEY
D. BRET CARLSON
GEORGE N. LINDSAY, JR.
STANLEY R. RESOR
JAMES B. WELLES, JR.
ROSWELL B. PERKINS
ROBERT B. VON MEHREN
HAROLD H. HEALY, JR.
JOSEPH BARBASH
CHESTER BILLINGS, JR.
MICHAEL H. GOFF
WILLIAM B. MATTESON

July 2, 1962

Dear Henry:

This is to confirm what I believe I told you or your office orally, namely, that George Hinman will be away for a couple of weeks, and can't meet with us on July 5. We will have to set a new date later.

I have just looked over Ann Black's report No. 2 on Iran, dated June 28. I have the impression that there is a considerable amount of repetition of material which was in report No. 1 (although the quality seems high). Am I correct in this?

John Deardourff is here Monday and Tuesday of every other week, and please let him know if you have any jobs you want carried out.

July 3, 1962

CONFIDENTIAL

TO: THE GOVERNOR

FROM: Roswell B. Perkins

SUBJECT: Discussion in 1963 of Major National and International Issues

This is looking so far down the road you may be impatient with my recommendation. However, I deeply believe in its importance, as does Henry Kissinger.

If you are successful in the New York election, you will then be buried in preparation for the next legislative session, and in the session itself, from mid-November, 1962, to late April, 1963. Then it will be literally a matter of months before preparation for primaries will have to begin, if you are a candidate.

It seems to me essential that you block out two to three weeks in May or June of 1963 for the most intensive study and discussion possible on current national and international issues. We could go over basic positions and bring in key-consultants for you to interrogate and listen to first-hand. You could give us guidance on further work you want done.

Without a strong fund of up-to-date information and a set of basic positions in almost all fields, it seems to me you would be at a great disadvantage in 1964.

Recommendation:

1. That you block out a period of two to three weeks in May and/or June of 1963 for study and discussion of national and international issues.

2. That you authorize Henry Kissinger and me to prepare for your consideration and approval a tentative program for the discussions within the designated period, including names of consultants to be present.

DEBEVOISE, PLIMPTON & MCLEAN

320 PARK AVENUE
NEW YORK 22

CABLE ADDRESS:

DEBSTEVE

TELEPHONE: PLAZA 2-6400

July 11, 1962

Dear Henry:

The Governor has approved my memo of July 3, a copy of which is enclosed. This really puts us on our mettle, and I suggest that we develop a plan as soon as possible for the allotted two or three weeks.

Naturally, John Deardourff can carry a major load in connection with the preparation for this monumental session, assuming this ever comes off.

Perhaps you could delegate much of the planning to Mr. Bailey.

I do not have a definite date with George Hinman for the 20th, and, unfortunately, will not know until the 17th what his plans are. Would there be any chance of your holding time on both the 19th and 20th?

With best wishes,

Enclosure

July 18, 1962

To: George Hinman
From: Roswell B. Perkins
Subject: Dinner on July 26

Henry will arrive at the University Club between 6:30 P.M. and 7:00 P.M. on the 26th. I suggest that you and I meet there at 6:30 P.M. in any event.

Subject to your views, I would like very much to have John Deardourff present. He could shift his bi-weekly two day visit to coincide with our meeting. I believe it is terribly important that John be geared in to the combined political and substantive thinking.

I would appreciate your letting me know whether I may invite John.

cc: Dr. Kissinger

cc: Dr. Krausinger

whether I may invite John.

thinking.

Gained in to the confined political and apolitical
ing. I believe it is terminally important that John be
the bi-weekly two days absent to coincide with our meet-
ings to have John Deardomtt present. He could shift
Subject to your views, I would like very

event.

satisfact that you and I meet there at 6:30 P.M. in any
between 6:30 P.M. and 1:00 P.M. on the 26th. I

Subject: Dinner on July 26
From: Roswell B. Perkins
To: George Hinman

July 18, 1965

TO: Campaign Staff and Governor's Staff

FROM: Roswell B. Perkins

SUBJECT: National Issues in the Fall Campaign

As we all know, there is always a possibility that national issues may at any time be thrust upon us in the State campaign. Also, many State issues are intimately involved in national issues, such that close correlation is required. This memo is to serve as a reminder that our Research Unit at 55th Street has recommended positions for NAR on most significant domestic and foreign issues, all compiled and all correlated with his past positions, as well as a wealth of background material on these issues. I wish to enter an urgent plea that, in the heat of the campaign, we all remember to check in with the Research Unit before putting out *any* statements involving *national* or *international* issues.

I will be on vacation in August, but John D. Deardourff, the Director of the Unit, will be here or next to a phone in Congresswoman Weiss's office in Washington (Capitol 4-3121). Please feel free to call him and give him any assignments or questions you may have. Also, the staff here (5th floor, 20 West 55th Street) can field most questions for you.

R.B.P.

My Vacation Address:

Little Compton
Rhode Island
Phone: 63

5804 Boone Drive
Baton Rouge 8, La.

August 14, 1962

Mr. Roswell B. Perkins
DEBEVOISE, PLIMPTON & MCLEAN
320 Park Avenue
New York 22, N. Y.

Dear Rods

It now appears that I am going to join the Ford Foundation while on leave from Louisiana State University for a brief two-months assignment to make a survey of the agricultural diversification possibilities of Malaya. I will probably be in Malaya all of October and November.

In connection with this assignment, I have a meeting scheduled at the Ford Foundation in New York on Friday September 7 beginning at 11:00 am. and lasting the remainder of the day. If any matters have developed which require a brief conference, I could be available from 7:00 am. to 11:00 am. on that day, subject to any time Oscar Ruebhausen might wish to reserve as I have already written him to this effect. If necessary, I could come up a day early and be available on September 6.

I still plan to also be in New York during the September 25-27 period for the Board meeting of The Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs on September 26.

With kind regards,

Dr. J. Norman Efferson

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August 21, 1962

(3) it is a field in which we can make a major attack on Kennedy.

The outline I have in mind is this:

I. The Problems of Agriculture Today

II. Kennedy's Policies and Proposals

III. NAR's Program

Part I would include some of the fundamental analytical material of the Minneapolis speech, brought up to date, and would include statistics on surpluses, etc. Part I would seek to present the basic problems in sharp, clear focus.

Part II would trace how Kennedy approached the problems of agriculture -- what he said in his campaign, what he proposed to Congress, what was deficient in the proposals, and why they deserved defeat.

Part III is fairly obvious, but I'd like it to be just as specific as we can be, with the thought that in any ultimate speech we might well reduce the specifics and generalize more than the essay.

I'd appreciate your thinking about the foregoing between now and September 7, and being prepared to comment on the feasibility of the above or to make alternative suggestions. If the foregoing seems right to you, perhaps you would find time between now and September 7 to do a topical outline of the essay which we could then discuss.

I will look forward to seeing you at 9:00 A.M. on September 7 at 22 West 55th Street.

With best wishes,

bcc: Dr. Kissinger
John Deardourff
Mary McAniff

Mary McAnutt
John Desernorrut

pcc: Dr. Klaarner

With best wishes,

on September 1 at 55 West 22nd Street.

I will look forward to seeing you at 8:00 P.M.

qacnaa
to do a robcat otline of the easy which we conq then
bembaa kon would sing time between now and Sebtemper 1
tive angkations. It the foregoing seems right to kon,
comment on the leaspifity of the spoke or to wake afterna-
gong between now and Sebtemper 1, and being prepared to
I'd abbracate kon thinking about the fore-
abecfice and Generalize more than the easy.

that in anl ultimate abeek we might well reduce the
to pe that as abecfice su we can pe with the thought
part III is tarifly opvabla, but I'd like it

broboasa, and wu they deserved detection.
what he broboag to Congress, what was salient in the
problema of agreniture -- what we said in his cambaran,
part II would trace how Kennedy abbroached the
in sard, clear loona.

etc. Part I would seek to present the paste problems
nb to date, and would include statistics on amblamees,
satisfactory materials of the Minnesobola abeek' pronght
part I would include some of the funsments

III. MUA's program

II. Kennedy's policies and proposals

I. The Problema of Agreniture Today

The online I have in mind is this:

major attack on Kennedy.

Dr. J. Norman Ellerson

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Vernon St., 1305

October 29, 1962

TO: Mr. Roswell B. Perkins

FROM: Henry A. Kissinger

I understand that Pamela Hill, in meeting her responsibilities on the Berlin paper last week, ran into various extra expenses which she paid herself during the overtime that she worked (principally the cost of some one to take care of her child while she stayed to work on our paper).

I would recommend that she be reimbursed for these expenses. The cost to the office would be under $10, and I believe it can reasonably be considered as an item for which should be reimbursed.

supply be considered as an item for which should be reimbursed.
The cost to the office would be under $10, and I believe it can res-

our paper). cost of some one to take care of her child while she stayed to work on
she paid herself during the overtime that she worked (principally the
on the Berlin paper last week, ran into various extra expenses which

I understand that Pamela Hill, in meeting her reasons difficulties

FROM: Henry V. Kießinger
TO: Mr. Roswell B. Perkins

October 29, 1963

CONFIDENTIAL

THOMAS THACHER
SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE

STATE OF NEW YORK

INSURANCE DEPARTMENT

123 WILLIAM ST.
NEW YORK 38

March 15, 1963

Roswell B. Perkins, Esq.
Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates
320 Park Avenue
New York 22, N. Y.

Dear Rod:

Thank you for your March 13 note. How well I know the fantasticness of the kind of rush you've been in.

I know that, as you say, there's "nothing there" with regard to inter-American affairs in the 55th Street research operation. My suggestion is that there urgently needs to be, and without delay,

Even if NAR is not a candidate, as a Republican leader of national rank he will inevitably play a key role in the 1964 campaign. Meanwhile, Kennedy's "managed news" technique is land-mining the Hemisphere ground that NAR eventually must cover. As an example, I saw a headline just yesterday that said "Latin Nations Balk at Steps To Check Castro Subversion." The truth is the opposite: OAS Council President Gonzalo Facio had just been to the White House pleading with Kennedy to stop "balking," and stop blocking the Latin nations' steps to check Castro subversion. Facio himself told us this on the phone Wednesday. Will this be known and remembered by NAR's policy advisers, or by staffers boiling down situation briefs for him in 1964, working with last year's headlines?

NAR can beat Kennedy to a pulp on the Hemisphere issue. But by campaign time, "managed news" will have irretrievably distorted the issue, making it all but useless to NAR, unless (1) the facts are collected, analyzed and kept on tap for him; (2) an immediate program is instituted -- not necessarily with NAR as spokesman -- to rebut Kennedy's whoppers so that they don't take root in the public mind to such an extent that people later will not believe what really happened.

Unless public attention is called now to Kennedy's Hemisphere speculations, their denunciation later will be widely discounted as political campaign propaganda.

The Kennedy camp has launched the emotional accusation that the Republicans are a "war party" over Cuba. But apart from Cuba, Kennedy is vulnerable in inter-American affairs on the Alliance for Progress, double-crossing of Free World allies in Latin America, systematically weakening the Organization of American States, and a wide range of colossal flops. The Kennedy administration is playing games with U.S. loans, grants and other aid to Latin America which can and should be documented; the pattern would shock Democrats and Republicans alike. The broadcasting of facts on these shenanigans could not be countered as "war party" talk.

As I mentioned, NAR himself need not be the spokesman for the present. It could be done by supplying background data to news media, with checkable substantiation, via any of a number of appropriate channels.

March 26, 1963

Mr. Roswell Perkins
Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates
320 Park Avenue
New York 22, New York

Dear Rod:

I am enclosing a letter from David Martin which I think
is self-explanatory. I believe we ought to try to get a hold
of him. I know you have talked to Keating's legislative assistant
and that you were told about Martin's extreme views. To this, I
would like to say three things.

1. The legislative assistant of Keating probably has a vested interest in not getting a competitor on his staff.

2. I have read the statements which Martin has drafted for Senator Dodd on Katanga, New Guinea and the test ban. I have been impressed by the fact that they were extremely well researched, very factual and very calm.

3. Any substantial deviation from the administration's line is likely to be called extremism. If we fall into this trap, we are licked before we start. We cannot contend with Kennedy on his definition of the "middle ground". And I consider what Kennedy has chosen as the "middle ground" to be recklessly dangerous.

David Martin has called me recently to tell me that he would be
very interested to work for Senator Hruska. Perhaps we could do some-
thing there. In any event, it seems to me important that we get some
kind of backing in Republican leadership in these countries so that
Nelson's statements are picked up and expanded. What are your views
about all of this?

Warm regards.

Henry V. Kiettingen

Sincerely yours,

Warm regards.

apout all of this?
Molson's statements are picked up and expanded. What are their views
king of packing in Republican leadership in these countries so that
filling there. In any event, it seems to me important that we get some
very interested to work for Senator Krake. Perhaps we could do some
David Martin has called me recently to tell me that he would be

ground, to be recklessly dangerous.

And I consider what Kennedy has chosen as the "middle
with Kennedy on the definition of the "middle ground".
trab, we are liked before we start. We cannot contend
is likely to be called extreme! If we fail into this

3. Very substantial deviation from the administration's line
well researched, very factual and very calm.
I have been impressed by the fact that they were extremely
Senator Dodd on Katanga, New Guinea and the test pan.

staff.

vested interest in not setting a competitor on the
1. The legislative assistant of Kesting properly has a

and that you were told about Martin's extreme views. To this, I
of him. I know you have talked to Kesting's legislative assistant
the self-explanatory. I believe we ought to try to get a hold
I am enclosing a letter from David Martin which I think

Dear God:

New York 33, New York
320 Park Avenue
Depeche, Blimp, Rhone & Gares
Mr. Russell Berkine

March 26, 1963

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WILLIAM EVERDELL III
CHARLES I. PIERCE, JR.
EARLE J. STARKEY
D. BRET CARLSON
GEORGE N. LINDSAY, JR.
STANLEY R. RESOR
JAMES B. WELLES, JR.
ROSWELL B. PERKINS
ROBERT B. VON MEHREN
HAROLD H. HEALY, JR.
JOSEPH BARBASH
CHESTER BILLINGS, JR.
MICHAEL H. GOFF
WILLIAM B. MATTESON
BARRY R. BRYAN
RICHARD D. KAHN

March 29, 1963

Dear Henry:

Thanks very much for your note of March 26 concerning David Martin.

I agree with everything you have said. In
fact, you will recall that I kept sending you material
of Dodd's from time to time thinking you might not have
seen it.

However, I do not think there is any chance
with Keating. I think that his legislative assistant
truly represents his views, and I can understand them.

So far as Senator Hruska is concerned, I will
ask John Deardourff to contact Bob Kutak, who is Hruska's
assistant. Also, with the Governor's forthcoming trip
to honor Sen. Hruska, perhaps an opportunity will arise
for other spade work.

In brief, in view of your letter, I will not give up, but I am not hopeful.