THE SECRETARY OF STATE

WASHINGTON

January 15, 1977

Dear John:

As I prepare to leave office, my thoughts turn especially to those friends and advisers who have been such important coworkers in carrying out our nation's foreign policy. Your willingness to return to public life and assume a difficult and demanding assignment bears remarkable testimony to your devotion to our country's needs. Your readiness to serve where and when you were needed most has been the hallmark of one of the true patriots of our time.

Opening relations with the German Democratic Republic was a task of great importance, requiring utmost diplomatic skill and political sensitivity, and you performed it in the highest traditions of American diplomacy. Your ability to firmly and properly represent the interests of the United States and establish effective personal contact with the highest levels of the GDR government, even while guiding a fledgling Embassy, once again justified the trust with which American Presidents and voters have repeatedly turned to you. The foundation that you have laid in Berlin is a solid one; the directions that you pointed will provide the course for your successors for many years to come.

On a personal note, I want to thank you for allowing me to turn to you for advice on a broad range of problems, especially in dealing with your former Congressional colleagues. This has been an invaluable support and reassurance for me in difficult times. Your friendship, no less than your achievements, is one of the fond memories that I take with me.

The Honorable
John Sherman Cooper,
2900 N Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

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November 16, 1972

Mr. Henry Kissinger
Executive Offices
The White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Kissinger,

Your French publisher of A WORLD RESTORED, Editions Denoël, were much quicker at getting your book published than we expected. I'm pleased to enclose here one copy of their edition which they have entitled LE CHEMIN DE LA PAIX and which they will publish tomorrow, November 16. I do hope you like the new title, and that it proves to be prophetic for your current negotiations with the Vietnamese. Four additional copies will be sent to you under separate cover when they arrive from Paris.

As you may have seen Le Figaro published excerpts from the last chapter in their November 11 issue, and will do a long review of your book in their November 18 issue. (They have paid Denoël a fee of $500. for this right, of which we will receive 70%.)

As Mr. McAdoo noted in his letter to you of October 16, there is a good deal of renewed interest in your book abroad. Your German publisher, Econ Verlag, has just sold paperback rights to Ullstein, and we have just received an offer for Brazilian rights from Livraria Jose Olympio in Rio. I hope we'll have more good news to report to you soon.

Please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any suggestions of publishers for A WORLD RESTORED abroad.

Very best wishes,

AC/gb
encl

cc: Mr. Peter Rodman

January 18, 1977

Dear Susan:

I am mortified to discover that the
Christmas presents you entrusted to me
never reached your relatives here in
Washington, due apparently to the monumental
incompetence of my own office.

It seems incredible to me, as it must
to you, that such a simple chore could not
be carried out in a responsible fashion,
but I am forced to admit that none of my
highly paid staff can account for the dis-
appearance of these packages. I am most
painfully embarrassed.

I hope you will allow me at least to
replace the missing gifts and personally
see that they are delivered, with my apologies,
to Mrs. Bainbridge and Mrs. Eager. But I
am at a loss to know what I can do now to restore
whatever confidence you might ever have had in
our reliability.

My profoundest apologies.

Mrs. Anthony Crosland,
c/o Private Office,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
London.

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TRAMMELL CROW

2001 BRYAN STREET
DALLAS, TEXAS 75201

April 20, 1976

The Honorable Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Here are some snaps from your visit in our
home, which I believe you will find interesting.

We continue to get high praises and continued
positive comments regarding the success of your
trip to Dallas.

Enclosure

J. T. CUPP

417 S. WEST STREET
STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA
74074

Jan. 31, 1973

Dr. Henry Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D. C.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

I thought you would like to see the enclosed Lane cartoon, And Our Compliments to the Chef with accompanying editorial, 'Four more years' in the Stillwater, Oklahoma, News-Press for January 28, 1973.

And Lange's cartoon, The Egg Comes First in the Daily Oklahoman, January 28, 1973.

Also enclosed is my scroll, Do You Believe.

Sincerely yours in Christ that OUR WAY of LIFE shall not perish. Although we have given so much to the world, we have so much more to give in the future.

J. T. Cupp

CARL T. CURTIS
NEBRASKA

United States Senate

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510

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FINANCE
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CHAIRMAN OF REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE

June 16, 1975

The Honorable Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
Department of State
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Secretary:

At a meeting at the White House on April 22nd I talked to you about Ambassador Turner Shelton who is now serving in Nicaragua. I referred to the smear articles that appeared in the press about him and I urged that he be retained as our Ambassador to Nicaragua.

You replied to me that Ambassador Shelton was in the process of being rotated out for a change in due course. I said to you, "If he must leave Nicaragua, can his new assignment be so handled as to repudiate these lies that have appeared in the press?" You replied to me, "This can be done and this we will do."

Since receiving your commitment on this matter I have not bothered you. I have been in touch with Mr. Ingersoll and Mr. Eagleburger a number of times. I reported to them our conversation.

Later on a White House publication indicated that Ambassador Shelton was resigning from the service and within the last few days Deputy Assistant Secretary for Latin American Affairs, Ambassador Ryan, denied Ambassador Shelton's request to come to Washington to talk over the situation and to talk over a new assignment. Ambassador Shelton's request to come to Washington was denied and he was told they had nothing to offer him.

I feel very strongly about this. I feel that a commitment was made. I am confident he is doing a good job and I wish that you would take a hand in it and see that Ambassador Shelton is offered another place.

Thanking you, I am

CTC/cma

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75008 PARIS
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Paris, December 18, 1972

Dr. Henry Kissinger
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington D.C.
U.S.A.

Dear Henry,

As promised I am sending two copies of pictures taken
the other night at dinner, which I thought might amuse
you.

We have just returned from Egypt where we had a
marvellous trip, but were very saddened to hear about
the new difficulties. While we would like to see you
here again in Paris, we hope your next visit is purely
pleasure and hope we can give you a "celebration"
dinner.

Jan and I, both wish you a Happy Christmas and New Year
and hope to see you very soon.