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From Goldthwaite H. Dorr to Leonard Garment RE: Special relationship and law case. 2 pgs. [Subject: Personal] [Letter], 10/22/1971
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library
Contested Materials Collection
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Subject
Document Type
Document Description
50
34
10/22/1971
Personal
Letter
From Goldthwaite H. Dorr to Leonard
Garment RE: Special relationship and law
case. 2pgs.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Page 1 of 1
DOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD [NIXON PROJECT]
DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT
SUBJECT/TITLE OR CORRESPONDENTS
DATE
RESTRICTION
NUMBER
TYPE
N-1
memo
[Doc 118]
Com.
with mrs. Everett Dirlisen, re:
9/18/72
< comps
Doubleday's desire to use picture
N-2
Letter
of our to Farment,
10/22/71
re: special companionship
(cna)
[Doc 119]
[attached to cover memo,
Fament towoods, 10/30/71]
FILE GROUP TITLE
BOX NUMBER
PPF
24
FOLDER TITLE
D [20/3]
RESTRICTION CODES
A. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.
E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
B. National security classified information.
financial information.
C. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's
F. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law
rights.
enforcement purposes.
D. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy
G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.
or a libel of a living person.
H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
NA FORM 1421 (4-85)
Presidential Materials Review Board
Review on Contested Documents
Collection: President's Personal Files
Box Number:
24
Folder:
D [2 of 3]
Document
Disposition
118
Retain Open
119
Return Private/Personal
Cloudy Brout Street
New York, New York 10005
October 22, 1971
PERSONAL AND
CONPIDENTIAL
Dear Len:
As I think you well know there has been a
steady growth of my feeling of a special companionship
between you and me. It was founded in the contacts
we had in the office here and particularly in what
seemed to me, the great enterprise of our participation
in Time V. Hill. There was something in that case, that
I felt, tended to bring out the best that all of us
had in us.
I had never known an instance of such
generous action in a law case, as your setting
yourself aside, from what was so justifiably your
desire to argue that case in the Supreme Court. That
action as I see it, has had far reaching results.
The situation presented a terrific challenge
to our partner. It took, to my mind, such basic
strength of character for him, in the light of his
narrow previous legal experience, to face the music
of Supreme Court Justices, who hated his very guts.
And how much those yellow sheets, written
after midnight showed a capacity for an objective
approach to himself and his own work. It showed
that what he had done in court was not a flash in
the pan, but an evidence of great strength that
had with it an ability to search objectively for
mistakes he might have made in the exercise of that
strength, and to seek to profit by them. It is too
much to expect that he will always call upon this
ability to recognize and profit by mistakes, but
it showed that it is there.
2.
The performance of the tremendous tasks
before him will depend not only upon his indomitable
strength, but also upon the use of his "yellow sheets"
objective self-analysis. And so, Len it seems to me
in our Time V. Hill experiences that we can feel that
we were witnessing, and to you a very great extent
participating in, something of great import to our
country and indeed the world.
It seems to me that what happened last night
in his address to the country on his two appointments,
might well be the result of an ultimate exercise by
him of the qualities he displayed in the yellow sheets.
In any event, as one comment was made to me, 'he has
again boxed in his opposition'
I don't know that you realized at the time,
what a complete surprise my little visit to The White
House and the impromptu birthday celebration was to me.
Yesterday I received a follow-up letter from the Pres-
ident with those unrebearsed photographs which are
always going to mean so much to me. If you have not
seen them, do take a look and you will understand.
The whole events of that day in spite of the
shock to me of death cutting off the things I had hoped
to accomplish in my talk with Dean Acheson, seems to
have given me a new lease on life, at any rate, it
made me a less grouchy individual, which my associates
were beginning to find me. I owe you a lot. And I
do hope to get down to Washington again and perhaps
have some fruitful thoughts which I can pass on to you,
and particularly about your own future. Meanwhile,
thanks.
Faithfully yours,
lb.
Goldthwaite H. Dorr
Leonard Garment, Esq.
The White House
Washington, D. C.