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Remarks at Bob Batscha Memorial Service

August 20, 2003

Henry A. Kissinger

Our lives are finite, but our dreams are not. This is why every
great achievement was somebody's dream before it became a reality.
It is the way we compensate for the transitoriness of our existence and
leave behind a memory and a testimonial.

Bob Batscha was a visionary. Dedicated, thoughtful, he pursued
his vocation, which was at the same time his hobby, with a
combination of passion, intelligence, and understated elegance. Many
contributed, but it was Bob who was the impetus and inspiration
behind the Museum of Television and Radio. As a friend of Bill Paley, I
had some idea of what he as the Museum's founder had in mind. But
Bob's achievement exceeded even Paley's expectations - not an easy
goal to accomplish. With his charm keeping his persistence from
turning into relentlessness, Bob expanded the Museum's library of
television programs from 5,000 to over 120,000. And his imagination
made this repository of the new medium come to life with seminars,
festivals, and educational programs, including the University Satellite
Seminar series. With headquarters in both New York and Los Angeles,
the Museum will, as time goes on, become central not only as a record
of the past - though it will be indispensable for that - but above all as
a focal point for the transition of human consciousness from
knowledge based on words to knowledge based on pictures.

I worked most closely with Bob on his efforts to expand the
Museum's reach beyond the United States. His vehicle was the
International Council, a group of leading media executives and creative
men and women from around the world that assembles once a year,
each time in a different country. Meetings have been held in Rome,
Bonn/Berlin, London, Madrid, Vienna, Paris, and last year in China. I
have had the honor of serving together with Frank Bennack as co-chair
of the group. But since I needed Bob's help in finding my way through

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such terms as "broadband" and "digital divide," it is clear who was
responsible for the International Council's success. Participation has
exploded with each year, both in numbers and stature of the
participants, as the Museum triumphantly reached around the world.
Bob Batscha made the sessions interesting and relevant, wisely
confining my penchant for foreign policy discussions to manageable
proportions - that is to say, over a single lunch.

In fact, these meetings showed the limits of conventional foreign
policy expertise. For the Bonn gathering, I had arranged a meeting
with then Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Guided by my advice, Bob - a
meticulous, if not obsessive, planner - had scheduled only a few
minutes for that event, after which everyone was to leave for home.
But the Chancellor was so taken with the group that he stayed for two
hours, wreaking havoc with Bob's carefully arranged travel schedules
and evoking in him a combination of elation tinged with frenzy over
the disintegration of his travel schedules.

Similarly, in China, Bob had been led by me to expect that a
meeting with President Jiang Zemin would - if even possible at all - be
formal, circumscribed, and official. As it turned out, Jiang stayed on
for dinner, capping the event by rising afterward and singing - in their
original languages - "O Sole Mio" and "Our Hearts Were Young," even
making some members of his cabinet join him in the songs. The
musical interlude - not to speak of Jiang's attendance in the first place
- disrupted Bob's schedule, which, as always, was timed like
clockwork. But since no travel schedules were affected, he was able to
share the general sense of exuberance without restraint.

I admired Bob Batscha for what he achieved, and I treasured my
relations with him for his human qualities, his warmth, his generosity,
and his selflessness - all this reinforced by his exposing me
occasionally to Viennese culinary specialties, which we both loved.

Nancy and I were deeply moved by Bob's devotion to his son
and the pride he took in his activities. His life revolved around Eric
with a solicitude as if every minute counted. And now we understand,
of course - though he never told us - that Bob knew that it did.

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Henry A. Kissinger

testimonial.

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China. I have had the honor of serving together with Frank Bennack as co-chair of the group. But since I needed Bob's help in finding my way through such terms as "broadband" and "digital divide," it is clear who was responsible for the International Council's success. Participation has exploded with each year, both in numbers and stature of the participants, as the Museum triumphantly reached around the world.

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stayed for two hours, wreaking havoc with Bob's
carefully arranged travel schedules and evoking in
him a combination of elation tinged with frenzy.

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Those whose lives were touched by Bob Batscha

Love this privilege

will never forget him, and those who did not/will find

in the Museum a memorial to a gentle, thrusting,

and warm-hearted visionary.

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# Remarks at Bob Batscha Memorial Service

## August 20, 2003

## Henry A. Kissinger

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men and women from around the world that assembles once a year, each time in a different country. Meetings have been held in Rome, Bonn/Berlin, London, Madrid, Vienna, Paris, and last year in China. I have had the honor of serving together with Frank Bennack as co-chair of the group. But since I needed Bob's help in finding my way through such terms as "broadband" and "digital divide," it is clear who was responsible for the International Council's success. Participation has exploded with each year, both in numbers and stature of the participants, as the Museum triumphantly reached around the world.

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But the Chancellor was so taken with the group that he stayed for two hours, wreaking havoc with Bob's carefully arranged travel schedules and evoking in him a combination of elation tinged with frenzy.

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Those whose lives were touched by Bob Batscha will never forget
him, and those who did not find in the Museum a memorial to a
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Not an easy goal to accomplish. His charm keeping his persistence from turning into relentlessness, Bob expanded the Museum's library of television programs from 5,000 to over 120,000. And his imagination made this repository of the new medium come to life with seminars, festivals, and educational programs, including the University (only) Satellite Seminar series. With headquarters in both New York and Los Angeles the Museum was able to grow and expand its collections as a means of the past - though it will not be able to meet the needs of the future. I worked most closely with Bob on his efforts to expand the Secret Museum's reach (beyond the US). His vehicle was the creation of the International Council, a group of leading media executives and creative men from around the world (that meets) once a year, each time in a different country. (Meetings have been held) in Rome, Bonn/Berlin, London, Madrid, Vienna, Paris, and last year in China. I (have) had the honor of serving as co-chairman of the group. But (I) was an indispensible (for the) back-luck (but) also above all as a front man for a campaign of humanism from which I draw my inspiration from knowledge based on methods and standards set in the past.

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[the International Council's] success. [Meeting] attendance [has been expanded] with each year, both in numbers and stature of the participants, ~~as~~ and the reach of the Museum triumphantly ~~reached~~ expanded around the world, ~~because~~ Bob Batscha made the sessions interesting and relevant, [wisely] confining my penchant for foreign policy discussions to manageable proportions - that is to say, [over] a lunch.

In fact, these meetings showed the limits of conventional foreign policy expertise. [For the] Bonn [gathering], I had arranged a meeting with then Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Guided by my advice, Bob - a meticulous, if not obsessive, planner - had scheduled [only] a few minutes for that event, after which everyone was to leave for home.

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But the Chancellor was so taken with the group that he stayed for two hours, [wreaking havoc with] Bob's carefully arranged travel schedules, [enjoying a combination of elation induced[and inducing frantic concern] [but at the same time] elation in him.

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Similarly, in China, Bob had been led by his foreign policy expert to expect that a meeting with President Jiang Zemin would be formal, circumscribed, and official. As it turned out, Jiang stayed for dinner, capping the event by rising afterward and singing - in their original languages - "O Sole Mio" and "Our Hearts Were Young," [even] making some members of his cabinet join him in the songs.

The evening was supposed to run like a clockwork, [only to be]

disrupted by the musical interlude - not to speak of Jiang's attendance [in the first place]. But since no travel schedules were [affected], Bob was able to [share] the general sense of exuberance without restraint.

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I admired Bob Batscha for what he achieved, and I treasured my relations with him for his human qualities, his warmth, his generosity, and his selflessness – all this reinforced by his exposing me occasionally to Viennese culinary specialties, while we both loved.

Nancy and I were deeply moved by Bob's devotion to his son the & son of and pride in his activities. His life revolved around Eric with a solicitude as if every minute counted. And now we know, of course – though he never told us – that Bob knew that it did.

Those who knew Bob Batscha will never forget him, and those who did not will see in the Museum a memorial to a gentle, trusting, warm-hearted visionary.

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[the International Council's] success. [Meeting] attendance [has been] grown with each year, both in numbers and stature of the

as participants, and the reach of the Museum triumphantly ~~expanded~~ around the world ~~because~~ Bob Batscha made the sessions interesting and relevant, [wisely] confining my penchant for foreign policy discussions to manageable proportions - that is to say, [over] a lunch.

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Nancy and I were deeply moved by Bob's devotion to his son the & son of & and pride in his activities. His life revolved around Eric with a solicitude as if every minute counted. And now we know, of course – though he never told us – that Bob knew that it did.

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