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DOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD [NIXON PROJECT]
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DATE
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Memo
Bucharan To woods, re:
6/10/69
C can't
[Doc 77]
attached speech
N-2
Letter
milical ahlys to woods
10/10/69
C (20%
Doc 78]
- d London Embassplief's
OPEN
attached tocorris
11/13/2009
beng 5/20/70].
Date
N-3
memo
Woods to President, re: yalh
12/1/70
C cont)
[Doc 79]
with re: Frank
Riggo
N-L1
Themo
annerberg to cods, ne. Reyzo
10/22/70
Com.
C inip
[Doc 80]
and Shiladelphia [attached
oco N-3 case file]
N-5
Letter
annerbey folwoods, re: proposed
12/4/70
C crift ]
melting with albert Cole + Habart
[Doc 81]
Lewis
[Doc 82]
attachments
[Doc 83]
1) Letter Joseph m. First to albert
L. cole, re: visit, along with
Lewis, 11/30/70
2) Letter, Cole to annenhing 2e
promised memo in T
of Readers Degest, 11/9/70
FILE GROUP TITLE
BOX NUMBER
PPF
20
FOLDER TITLE
annerbey, Walter [10/3]
RESTRICTION CODES
A. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.
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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
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G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.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H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
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Presidential Materials Review Board
Review on Contested Documents
Collection: President's Personal Files
Box Number:
20
Folder:
Annenberg, Walter [1 of 3]
Document
Disposition
77
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78
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Invasion of Privacy
11/13/2009
79
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Bucha woods,
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attochedopeech
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mildred ahlgen to woods,
10/16/69
C (20%)
re: London
f attached rocover letter, amount
herg to soods, 5/20/70]
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memo
Woods to President, re: yalh
12/1/70
with re Frank
Riggo
N-L1
Themo
annerberg of cods, nl. Reyzo
10/22/70
Com.
( (nip)
and Shiladelphia [attached
do N-3 case file]
N-5
Letter
preeded n opeaned Surgiving
12/4/70
C (nix)
melting with albert Cole & Habart
Lewis
attachments:
1) Letter Joseph ms First to albert
L. Cole, re: visit, along with
Lewis, 11/30/70
2) Letter, Cole to annenting
promied re
Reader 11/9/70
N1, NS Reintegroled from Cashested
FILE GROUP TITLE
Files 70 2006
BOX NUMBER
PPF
20
FOLDER TITLE
annenberg, Walter [10/3]
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.
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Bucharan TO woods, re:
6/10/69
C crix
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10/16/69
C (niform)
[Doc 78]
re: London
L attached recover letter, amount
herg to w oods, 5/20/70]
N-3
memo
Woods to President, re: yalk
12/1/70
[Doc 79]
with re: Frank
Riggo
N-L1
Nemo
annerberg 40 iv cods, ne. Rayzo
10/22/70
Com.
( (nip)
[Doc 80]
and Shilodelphia [attached
do N- 3 case file]
N-50
Letter
annerbey folwoods, re: proposed
12/4/70
C (nix)
melting with albert Cole + Habart
[Doc 81]
Lewis
[Doc 82]
attachments
[Doc 83]
1) Letter Joseph m. First to albert
L. cole, re: visit, along with
Lewis, 11/30/70
2) Letter, Cole to annewherg we
promised memo re T Using
of
Readers Digest, 11/9/70
FILE GROUP TITLE
BOX NUMBER
PPF
20
FOLDER TITLE
annerberg, Walter [10]]
RESTRICTION CODES
A. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.
E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial 0
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 lav
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 (4-8
Presidential Materials Review Board
Review on Contested Documents
Collection: President's Personal Files
Box Number:
20
Folder:
Annenberg, Walter [1 of 3]
Document
Disposition
77
Retain
Open
78
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Close
Invasion of Privacy
79
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Private/Political
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Private/Political
81
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Memo
RMW[oods] to the President
1/24/69
D
re: [Charles Mc Adams'
2PP.
recommendations for U.S.
Ambassador to Great Britian
appointment ]
Tel
Ambassador Annenberg to
5/18/70
D
2
con
RMWCoods] re; [Comments
IP.
Memo
about cabinet member]
cover Tel con memo, RmW[oods]
to the President re:it Conver-
sation with Walter Annenberg]
12/1/70; with following
attachment no. 3:
Tel
Walter Annenberg to
10/22/70
D
3
con
shorthand
memo
RMW[00ds] re: Frank
Rizzo's candidacy for
2pp.
mayor of Phila delphia
[Carbon copy of text, minus
shorthand is attached to
this item ]
FILE GROUP TITLE
WHSF PRESIDENT'S PERSONAL FILES
BOX NUMBER
[RMW] Alpha- Subject File
9420
FOLDER TITLE
ANNENBERG, WALTER C1 of 3J
RESTRICTION CODES
A. Release would violate a Federal statute.
E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or finan-
B. National security classified information.
cial 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 or a
G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.
libel of a living person.
H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
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DOCUMENT
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NUMBER
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LeHer
Walter Annenberg to Rose
12/4/70
G
mary Woods re; [ Readers
1p.
Digest Request] with
following attach ments
nos. 5-6:
5
Letter
Joseph M. First, Triangle
11/30/70
G
Publications, to Albert L.
2 pp.
Cole, Readers Digest re:
[Supermarket distribution
plan]
6
Albert L. Cole to Walter
11/9/70
G
Letter
Annen berg re: [Supermarket
3pp.
distribution plan]
FILE GROUP TITLE
WHSF PRESIDENT'S PERSONAL FILES
BOX NUMBER
[RMW] Alpha- subject Files
94 20
FOLDER TITLE
ANNENBERG, WALTER [1063]
RESTRICTION CODES
A. Release would violate a Federal statute.
E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or finan-
B. National security classified information.
cial 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 or a
G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.
libel of a living person.
H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
GSA FORM 7279 (10-79)
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS PROJECT
DOCUMENT CONTROL RECORD
ITEM REMOVED FROM THIS FILE FOLDER
Restricted document has been removed. See document
entry number
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on Document Withdrawal Record
(GSA Form 7279) or NARS Withdrawal Sheet (GSA Form
7122), located in the front of this folder, for a
description of the item and an explanation for its
removal.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE
NLN Form 101 (6-79)
FYI
Walter Annenberg thought the press conference today
was EVEN BETTER than last week. He said "I thought
it really went brilliantly today. He is organized and has
everything at his finger tips. He keeps flabergasting
those leftish liberals who hope they can trip him up. "
rmw
2/6/69
Rose Woods Mary
May 14, 1969
TO:
JONATHAN MOORE
Halting
FROM: PETER FLANIGAN
Spl
The President has had a very good report regarding
Phillip M. Kniser, the Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission
in London until recently. Be has asked me to urge you to
see to it that Mr. Kaiser is considered for a diplomatic post
that fits his past service. I would appreciate your letting
me have your thoughts on this matter.
,
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
To Peter Flanigar
Date 5/13/69
From Rose Mary Woods
F YI
Please Handle
Rate RN's marking
on annenberg's
letter to him
EMBASSY OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LONDON
May 1, 1969
Dear Rose Mary:
The enclosed letter to the President
is important to parties concerned, and there-
fore I would greatly appreciate your giving
it to him.
Would you also tell the President what an
infinitely rewarding and impressive experience
I had at the presentation of my credentials to
Her Majesty? The Queen's coach picked me up
here at the Chancery, and the traditional pro-
ceedings that followed shall be a memorable
event in my life. Thus far I have had a most
warm welcome.
I trust this missive finds you well in the
light of your arduous and dedicated duties.
Lee joins me in affectionate good wishes.
Sincerely,
liballe
Walter H. Annenberg
Miss Rose Mary Woods,
Executive Secretary
to the President,
The White House.
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LONDON
May 1, 1969
Dear Mr. President:
You will recall my concern relative to the firm
recommendation given me virtually on the eve of my
departure of a replacement for Philip M. Kaiser, the
Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy
in London. Having been briefed in the area of Mission
morale, you will remember my distress of such an assign-
ment being thrust upon me at such a late hour. This is
in no sense any adverse criticism of the suggested re-
placement, Mr. Tom Hughes, whose remarkably impressive
biographical data would appear to merit this promotion
for him.
Although I have only been here a short time, I
have indeed been impressed with the assets of Mr. Kaiser
and his value to this Embassy. This is especially so
in his relationship with Cabinet Ministers and other
political leaders, and his leadership qualities evidenced
by the warmth of his relationship with the key personnel
here at the Mission.
Mr. President, I do not mean to be presumptuous
but I take the liberty of urging you to consider Mr.
Kaiser for some appropriate diplomatic post that might
fittingly be a reward for his services to our Govern-
ment.
Faithfully,
Waller amenderg
Walter H. Annenberg
The President,
The White House.
Ambassador W. H. Annenberg
American Embassy
London
THE FOREIGN SERVICE
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PAR AVION
OFFICIAL BUSINESS
US
REGISTERED
A T I R
Miss Rose Mary Woods,
MAIL
Executive Secretary to the President,
REGISTRY NUMBER
OFFICE SYMBOL
The White House.
No. 811609
AMB
PERSONAL - CONFIDENTIAL
CLASSIFICATION
# GPO : 1965 0-790-436
TO BE AFFIXED TO COVER
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MEMORANDUM TO ROSE WOODS
re annenberg
FROM: PAT BUCHANAN
speech
JUNE 10, 1969
No need for the President to review this speech.
It is that hard-line speech on student disorders which the
Ambassador gave which so surprised his audience as it was
out of keeping with tradition. However, there is nothing
in. here that the President would find memorable I don't
think.
Buchanan
3
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Date 6/4/69
To
Pat Buchanan
From Rose Mary Woods
FYI
Please Handle
If you have the time, would you
please read the attached speech
of Walter Annenberg and mark
any pertinent parts for the
President.
Thank you.
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LONDON
May 30, 1969
Dear Rose Mary:
Would you please give the enclosed text
to the President.
Naturally, I know how busy he is, but he
may want to glance at my remarks at the Pil-
grim Dinner Wednesday evening, May 28th.
Quite possibly the theme that I got into
about collegiate disorder may be a bit strong,
but this is what I feel is very much in the
news and may be applicable to the English scene,
in the light of developing student unrest in
this country.
Sincerely,
Walker
Walter Annenberg
American Ambassador
P.S. The "Sir Patrick" referred to is Sir Patrick
Dean, who introduced me.
Miss Rose Mary Woods
The White House
Washington, D. C.
UNITED
STATES
OFFICIAL
AFORMATION
AGENCY
TEXT
FROM U.S.I.S.
UNITED STATES INFORMATION SERVICE, AMERICAN EMBASSY, LONDON
ADDRESS BY AMBASSADOR WALTER H. ANNENBERG
TO THE PILGRIMS AT THE SAVOY HOTEL, LONDON
WEDNESDAY, MAY 28TH, 1969
Lord Harlech, Sir Patrick, and Honorable Gentlemen:
It is a great pleasure to be with you tonight, and to be so handsomely
introduced and welcomed. I am proud to have been given an opportunity to be
serving my country in truly one of the most civilized communities of the
world, a stronghold of dignified living. I am the more proud to be following
a tradition which begins with another Philadelphian, Benjamin Franklin.
I am also delighted that it is traditional that the first public address
of a newly arrived American Ambassador is to The Pilgrims. I met with your
remarkable founder, Sir Harry Brittain, the other day. I can think of no
living person who more admirably reflects the spirit of Britain, and the ties
which draw our two nations together, than does Sir Harry. History will ref-
lect that he was well named.
I, of course, have only recently been officially appointed a diplomat. I
have, however, seven sisters, and therefore, my wife, with seven sisters-in-
law, has been a diplomat for years; and I hope to profit from this influence.
I am grateful for the reception which I have been accorded, not only this
evening, but since my arrival in the United Kingdom. Leaders of the Labour.
Conservative, and Liberal parties have been uniformly helpful, courteous, and
attentive, and this spirit has admirably eased my early initiation as
Ambassador.
The people of Britain and the people of the United States have a funda-
mental community of outlook -- political, economic, and social -- and whatever
our difficulties as we evolve our solutions, we do so in a climate of mutual
respect. The dialogue between us, which is diplomacy, is indeed unusual. We
speak on subjects of our mutual interest with a frankness and with an equality
which is unique among the nations of the world at this or any other time. The
Pilgrims in Britain and in the United States give additional support to our
relationship through the knowledge that we have an obligation of working to-
gether to provide leadership in the Western World.
This text may be used in quotation or in full, with or without attribution to USIS. by press, radio and other media. In the case of wireless texts, whilst
every effort has been made to maintain accuracy, transmission problems may result in certain inaccuracies and allowance must be made accordingly.
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Much has been spoken and written of the many aspects of our heritage and
histcry which draw our nations together. Perhaps the most important of these,
and at the very root of our culture, is our commonly shared respect for the
rule of law and the dignity of the individual. These concepts of freedom
were transmitted to America by the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony, and over
the intervening two hundred fifty years, these concepts have developed in our
countries the most sensitive systems of justice and freedom any peoples in
history have known.
I do not suggest that there is not room for further expansion of free-
dom and justice. In America the achievement of these ideals is impeded by
the fact that we have not yet succeeded in full elimination of the problems
of poverty and discrimination, and we are still seeking to provide oppor-
tunities for all who seek them. Nevertheless, I feel that you in Britain and
we in the United States have the right to take pride in the record of justice
and human decency afforded our citizens.
Great is the record of accomplishment that has culminated in material
and technological advancements in the United States. Great is the record of
goods and services to mankind at home and elsewhere, and for this our citizens
have a right to be eminently proud and a reason to be profoundly grateful.
However, in America today, as elsewhere, we find the ideals of freedom
and justice threatened by unrest, disorder, and turmoil in our colleges and
universities. Because of student violence, we face a crisis in higher
education and a fundamental challenge to the basic principles of university
education: academic freedom -- the right of the individual to teach free
of controls, the right of the student to study and learn.
I should like to state a few examples highlighting the problem in the
United States.
Student anarchy may have begun at the Berkeley Campus of the University
of California, a great seat of learning. It has been crippled by near
revolution: some of its buildings destroyed or rendered useless; its
faculty has been severely weakened by departure of senior dons.
The state government of California is determined to end this education
insurrection because it is not only greatly concerned with what has hap-
pened and is still happening, but it is determined to have the issue re-
solved because of the impact of the University of California disorders on
the remaining forty-nine states, as well as on the future of education in
the State of California, whose population projections indicate fifty million
residents by the year two thousand.
Harvard is perhaps our outstanding university. Last year, students
forcibly prevented a professor of urban affairs from giving a course dealing
with control of riot in cities, on the basis that it was not a subject to
be taught: that the course should be on the cause of riots, not their
control.
This year, students at Harvard forcibly occupied the main administration
building, threw out the Deans of the College, barricaded themselves inside,
broke into the University's confidential files, removed documents, and later
published them. After they had been removed by the police, the faculty of
the College, in a vote heavily influenced by junior faculty members, voted
-3-
to take no disciplinary action against the students
At Cornell, students armed with rifles, shotguns, and side arms, occupied
and forcibly prevented entry to one of the principal University buildings.
Only when promised amnesty by the administration and faculty did they leave --
and the photograph of the students with their guns and ammunition filing out
of the building, published on the front pages of newspapers across the world,
did as much as any number of words to awaken us to the danger before us.
Swarthmore College is a small liberal arts college near Philadelphia
which, under its sensitive and brilliant President, Dr. Courtney Smith, had
been in the forefront of American colleges in recognizing student aspirations,
negro and white, and the need for flexibility in student affairs. The
College was shut down by student activists, in the course of which, and I
believe as a direct result of which, Dr. Courtney Smith died of a heart
attack. Only then did the students permit the undisturbed reopening of the
College.
In Almost every case, the students who caused and participated in the
upheavals asked for and were granted amnesty for their actions. They were
permitted, for one reason or another, to break the law, participate in the
destruction of their institutions, without having to face the consequences.
Administration and faculty of these institutions have been unwilling to stand
up and assert the rule of law, in order to protect the freedom of the indivi-
dual and academic freedom from the depredations of a militant student minority.
They have created a sanctuary for violators of the law; and the time has
come to call an end to giving in to students, an end to making decisions out
of expediency, an end to appeasement.
One of the most disturbing aspects of these troubles in America is that
they are caused by a small organized minority. A recent poll shows that only
nine percent of our university students are the revolutionaries. Only one
college in ten has been affected by the current wave of disorders, but in-
fection has a way of spreading, if unchecked.
I repeat that infection, introduced by an active minority, can spread and
is therefore dangerous. The first evidence of this academic sickness is a
crumbling of administrative authority. This is a direct consequence of a
permissive and apathetic older leadership, which, while providing innumerable
advantages for youth, has failed to inculcate in youth the understanding that
there is a corresponding responsibility for each advantage enjoyed. Democratic
institutions are indeed threatened if we do not recognize the need for youth
to be apprised of the responsibilities ahead. Fortunately, we are beginning
to see signs of student majority resentment against radical minorities, and
this could be a turning point.
We must adhere to our tradition of respect for the rule of law and the
dignity of the individual which have been grown and nurtured here in Britain
for over seven-hundred years. Judge Burger, who has recently been nominated
by President Nixon as Chief Justice of the United States, has written:
"Government exists chiefly to foster the rights and
interests of its citizens -- to protect their homes and
property, their persons and their lives.
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"We know that a nation or a community which has no
rules and no laws is not a society but an anarchy, in which
no rights, either individual or collective, can survive. "
Honorable Gentlemen:
The conclusion of the foregoing was brilliantly stated by a barrister
of The Middle Temple over a hundred fifty years ago:
"It is ever the Fate of the Indolent to find
their rights
Become a Prey to the Active.
The Condition Upon which God Hath
Given Liberty to Man
Is Eternal Vigilance."
6/18/69
RN rmw
In about a week rmw remind RN to write Annenberg a
letter about personnel in his office.
6/27/69
/
ashed maye for list
by Monday (atached)
List of Non-Career Ambassadors (including addresses)
who have been announced by President Nixon as of
June 27, 1969:
Honorable Walter H. Annenberg
American Ambassador
London, England
Honorable Philip K. Crowe
American Ambassador
Oslo, Norway
Honorable Shelby Davis
116 John Street
New York, New York 10038
(until July 9)
Honorable Guilford Dudley, Jr.
American Ambassador
Copenhagen, Denmark
Honorable John S. D., Eisenhower
American Ambassador
Brussels, Belgium
Honorable Kenneth Franzheim *
5143 Greentree Street
Houston, Texas
Honorable Kingdon Gould, Jr.
American Ambassador to Luxembourg
Department of State
Honorable Robert C. Hill
American Ambassador
Madrid, Spain
Honorable John G. Hurd *
2101 Gustavus
Laredo, Texas
Honorable Kenneth B. Keating
American Ambassador
New Delhi, India
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Honorable John Davis Lodge
American Ambassador
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Honorable J. William Middendorf
American Ambassador to the Netherlands
Department of State
Honorable John D. J. Moore
American Ambassador
Dublin, Ireland
Honorable Val Peterson
American Ambassador
Helsinki, Finland
Honorable John C. Pritzlaff, Jr.
*
4954 East Rockridge Road
Phoenix, Arizona
Honorable Luther L Replogle
*
338 North Kenilworth Street
Oak Park, Illinois
Honorable Kenneth Rush
*
North Manursing Island
Rye, New York
Honorable Adolph W. Schmidt
*
Star Route South
Ligonier, Pennsylvania
Honorable J. Fife Symington, Jr.
*
West Seminary Avenue
Lutherville, Maryland
Honorable Jack Hood Vaughn
American Ambassador to Colombia
Department of State
*
Ambassadors announced, but not confirmed
PER/PAS: : RWZimmermann/nm
6/27/69
,
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
To Pah Buchunan
Date 8/4/69
From Rose Mary Woods
FYI
Please Handle
any need for the
President to see
this ?
Roof niw (No) sawhin
in Maldenhal,
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE AMBASSADOR
To
Rose Mary Woods
July 18, 1969
reck.1/23/69
Dear Rose Mary:
You may want to note the
enclosed.
Inasmuch as I quoted the
President I thought that your office
might want this copy.
Walter H. Annenberg
Presidential protes on page 3_ -
,
UNITED
STATES
OFFICIAL
INFORMATION
AGENCY
TEXT
FROM U.S.I.S.
UNITED STATES INFORMATION SERVICE, AMERICAN EMBASSY LONDON
ADDRESS BY AMBASSADOR WALTER H. ANNENBERG
TO THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (United Kingdom) AT A
LUNCHEON AT THE SAVOY HOTEL, LONDON, ON
WEDNESDAY, JULY 16TH, 1969
Mr. President, Members and Guests of the American Chamber of Commerce:
While I know it is traditional for the United States Ambassador to address
this distinguished group shortly after his arrival, I nevertheless want to under-
score how pleased I am to be here, and I do indeed appreciate the opportunity of
addressing you.
Because I commented adversely about the eagle atop the Embassy building in
Grosvenor Square before I came to England, may I hastily reassure you that the
eagle and I have a firm and friendly understanding. Having been queried rather
frequently since my arrival as to how we are getting along, I wanted to report that
our relations are of the best -- the eagle speaks no ill of the Ambassador and the
Ambassador speaks no ill of the eagle, and we have been scrupulously observing this
unwritten treaty obligation the last thirteen weeks.
While I did not come here to talk about the lunar journey, today is a day of
such tremendous excitement for all of us that I cannot resist referring to it.
The launching of the Apollo 11 may very well dwarf any of the concerns which we
have with our current problems and activities. Hopefully, human beings are about
to walk on the moon, and a new chapter is opening in the history of mankind, and
perhaps in the entire course of human evolution. Is there anyone here who, when he
was young, believed that in his lifetime this would be a space-facing world?
Mankind has been fascinated by celestial bodies and movements since early
history, and a considerable understanding of lunar and celestial movement was
developed early in civilizations. Witness England's magnificent Stonehenge. And
in America, the idea of space travel for me when I was younger was the comic strips
of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Later, it was science fiction, and now the science
fiction is coming true, and we prayerfully hope that this latest step will be with-
out fault.
Those of us who are not directly connected with the space age are indeed struck
by the speed with which the space era has come upon us. Here in England, in the
Second World War, you felt the awful impact of the rockets which were the ancestors
of those which probe space now. But it was only on October 4, 1957, that the
Russians launched their first satellite, and on January 31, 1958, just over eleven-
and-a-half years ago, we launched our Explorer One. Since then, there have been
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thirty-two manned space missions -- twenty by American astronauts and twelve by
Russian cosmonauts. These are the stones with which we hope to build our bridge
to the moon.
Three-hundred-forty-nine years ago on September 6th, one-hundred-and-two
Pilgrims set forth from this country to become in America what we consider our
founding fathers. That many years later we are setting forth from America for
more distant shores, and we can no more guess the consequences than could have
been guessed in 1620. But when the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts in the autumn
of 1620, I am told that there was already an Englishman named Conant living nearby
on Cape Cod, and I wonder if that will be true on the moon. No American would be
completely surprised.
While Apollo 11 is, of course, an American project, we must all remember that
British components -- the Bacon fuel cell and the Sarah Beacon -- went into it,
British scientists reviewed the plans, British trackers will follow it, and
Britons, like this one American, will watch it. British scientists will be on the
team which will analyze the samples of the moon surface which the Apollo will
bring back. These studies will be conducted in fourteen institutions throughout
the United Kingdom. We have a Community of Interest in this, as we have in so
many things.
It is that Community of Interest which brings' all of you together in the
American Chamber of Commerce, and brings me here to speak before you. The parti-
cular Community of Interest with which the American Chamber is involved is perhaps
the most significant of all the ties which bind our countries together, with the
exception of the ties of our loyalties, our affection and our common law and
culture.
Certainly the areas of Community of Interest in which the American Chamber is
involved are the fastest growing. In the years between 1960 and 1968 British ex-
ports to the United States have increased from approximately a thousand million
dollars in 1960 to two thousand, forty-eight million dollars in 1968. American
exports to the United Kingdom have increased from one thousand, four hundred million
dollars in 1960 to two thousand, one hundred eighty million dollars in 1968. Direct
American investment by the United States in Britain has increased from three
thousand, two hundred million dollars in 1960 to six thousand, one hundred million
dollars in 1967. In that year, the amount of direct British investment in America
was three thousand, one hundred fifty million, to which must be added the vast
amounts of indirect investments, including private holdings of American shares. The
American Chamber estimated two years ago that 12.3 percent of Britain's total ex-
ports was accounted for by the efforts of one hundred sixty-one American companies
manufacturing in this country, and the results of a new summary currently being
conducted are expected to show an even higher percentage.
The British Government continues to encourage American investment in Britain.
Increasingly, American direct investment has been in Scotland, Northern England,
Wales, and Northern Ireland, where the Government and local authorities are
desirous of attracting new capital, and the possibilities of mutual benefit are
great.
Most important of all for us to remember are the facts of our trade relation-
ships. The United States is the United Kingdom's most important export market.
We like what you have to sell, and we buy it. And the reverse is also true:
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Britain is one of our most important export markets, the third largest. America
cares greatly about that market here. Agricultural sales alone amount to five
hundred million dollars.
These important economic and commercial ties are far more than happenstance.
They grow out of conscious policies developed in concert by two great trading
nations. As a matter of policy and inclination, each country has a vital interest
in the effectiveness of each other's economy and trade. Each desires the other
to be able to provide for its citizens the best opportunity for living, consistent
with our social aspirations and economic abilities. With that in mind, each is
properly concerned with the strength of the other and, as much, with the outlook
for each other's future.
United States' policy is clearly directed toward the objectives of the
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. We aim toward the highest
sustainable growth and employment with rising standards of living. It would seem
this policy is already proving its worth because, while the Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development set a target for growth of fifty percent for the
1960-1970 decade, which is remarkable for a ten-year period, unpublished tentative
draft figures indicate that the target will not only be met but will be exceeded by
some ten percent.
This type of growth has been and will be accomplished by the expansion of
world trade on a multilateral and non-discriminatory basis. The highest sustainable
growth and employment with rising standards of living are the objective, but fin-
ancial stability should be maintained. I believe President Nixon put it most
succinctly when he said:
"There is a clear inter-relationship between America's
economic health and that of the rest of the world. It follows
from this that the cause of stability and peace is served by
the advancement of free-flowing world trade."
In furtherance of that policy, Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans visited
Britain and other countries of Western Europe to explore further the implementation
of my country's commitment to a liberal trade policy. The thrust of his visit was
exploration of fair trade expansion consistent with the inevitable economic realities
and resulting adjustments.
The United States intends to pursue these objectives in the coming years. We
must not permit any of us to forget our vital interdependence, and the necessity
for close cooperation between us.
There are certain problems in our economic relationships which, while having
a mutual effect, are essentially the responsibility of each nation individually to
solve: in 1968 the United States had a rate of economic expansion which proved to
be inconsistent with stable prices, resulting in an unacceptable rate of inflation,
both in terms of the domestic economy and in terms of balance of payments. These
green and sometimes sunny shores are not alone in having inflationary and balance
of payment problems. We have them too.
As a result, of course, our investment abroad has been curtailed by the
controls with which you are all familiar. My Government is firmly committed to
relaxing these investment restrictions as soon as possible. We are intensifying our
efforts to restore price stability and to obtain adequate control of the price and
wage situation. Combining fiscal policy with monetary restraint, we should be in a
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position gradually to bring about a balance, which will permit us more freely to
export capital to places where it can be used for general benefit. America knows,
in blunt language, that it must do something about our inflationary pressures, and
we are responding. The extension of the surtax and increasing interest rates are,
for an American, pressures one can feel. And we must recognize that the United
States must have not only a balance of payments, but a surplus of a size sufficient
to permit us to discharge our responsibilities in the world. The measure of American
commitment, and desire for commitment, to economies of under-developed countries is
limited in size in part by our ability to earn the living of our national economy
in world markets. Some of the problems are our own, and some are mutual. We are
working on both, and I am optimistic.
If we are to promote a better economy and better trade, we must have an
American economy which shows both growth and price stability. However, no country
alone can, in itself, bring about any adjustments in an interdependent world. We
must cooperate. All of us have learned that America needs the help of its allies,
just as the reverse is true. There must be continued and improved cooperation
between us, and the sort of dialogue which characterized the Kennedy Round must be
continued for years to come.
Specifically, we of the American Mission here, and particularly you of the
American Chamber of Commerce, with your friends, must have a strong commitment to
keeping up the momentum of open world trade. America is working on relaxation of
its foreign investment regulations, and hopefully Great Britain will also soon
be able to permit freer investment in the American economy. Even with the restric-
tions, an American cannot help but be impressed with the resourcefulness of
British involvement in American business in such areas as petroleum, real estate,
and insurance, to name but random examples. It is exciting. Let us hope there
will soon be greater freedom for responsible movement of capital in both directions,
because together we learn. We would welcome more British investment in the United
States.
I suspect that if we can abide by the schedules contemplated by the Kennedy
Round -- and it is United States' policy that we do so -- no great new initiatives
in the trade, and particularly the tariff areas, can be expected in the near
future. However, it is time that we concerned ourselves, as a matter of urgency,
with non-tariff barriers to trade. We must not permit the continuation of re-
sidual quantitative restrictions that are illegal under the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade, with the rising and dangerous tide of agricultural protection-
ism, and with the threat of new discriminatory arrangements in world trade. These
non-tariff barriers can be as significant as any existing tariff barriers, and we
are giving priority to negotiations projected for 1970 under the auspices of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade for their reduction.
Secretary Stans rightly called for what he described as an "Open Table"
approach to these problems. There is nothing easy about what our mutual policy
requires. We must sit down at the table together and freely discuss issues
which could be painful.
But the difficulty renders all the more important the maintenance of an
open system of world trade. Interdependence needs intercommunication. We must
talk to each other and we must listen: yet, in the most responsible way, we
must never forget that we have independent responsibilities. But even those
are so closely associated that we cannot ever again operate alone. We may be
individualistic, but I should like to emphasize that we are intimately related.
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Gentlemen, the Embassy is proud of its long association with the American
Chamber of Commerce in the United Kingdom, one of the oldest and largest of our over-
seas Chambers. I wish to extend a personal invitation to each of you to make use of
the services of our Embassy at any time that you may wish to do so, and I trust that
we will continue working closely and harmoniously in the promotion of even greater
commercial benefits for our two countries.
Woman's The Sunday Star
World
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Exclusive color pictures
taken for
The Sunday Star by
Laurence Harris of
The Associated Press.
aliant eagle in the green acres of Winfield House gardens.
WATION carr
Mrs. Annenberg anc
LONDON-The lady perched, ex-
By JOY BI
quisitely dressed, on the edge of the FDR
Star Staf
memorial in Grosvenor Square, patiently
responsive to a clicking camera.
Behind her, through the trees,
A woman might have added up some-
sprawled the modernistic whiteness of the
thing: The couture dress. The huge but
American Embassy, decorated with its con-
ladylike pearls at ear lobes and finger.
troversial golden eagle, smugly surviving
The immaculate white gloves. And the
its second international crisis.
Rolls-Royce (shipped from Philadelphia),
A few Americans, paying respect to
waiting exactly at the front door of the
their own bit of turf in London, passed
embassy, for Mrs. Walter Annenberg.
by, perhaps wondering what kind of tour-
Ambassador and Mrs. Annenberg,
ist this-in the uncrushed dress and the
appointed to the Court of St. James by
Hollywood pose. But few tourists recog-
President Nixon in March, are finding the
nize ambassadors, or their wives.
camera less dangerous than the word.
With Andrew Wyeth's famous "The Mill" behind her, Mrs.
Annenberg is photographed in her husband's office.
1 the London Scene
LLINGTON
family (which is to be shown in the
Writer
U.S.A.) really started it all. The Ambassa-
dor happened to be presenting his creden-
tials and thus was able to make his historic
For the first time in his life, the pub-
remark to the Queen, who inquired about
lishing magnate is on the receiving end of
his residence. Winfield House, he told
typewriters on both sides of the Atlantic,
her, was subject to the need for elements
and he and his wife are riding out the
of refurbishing.
latest gale of smiles and nudges with Vic-
"The curious feature of this diplo-
torian we-are-not-amused stiff upper-lips.
matic event
and it is only fair to say
In fact, the whole residence in Re-
that Ambassador Annenberg had taken a
gents Park is under wraps, and the word
battering from precise courtiers before he
"refurbish," which is enjoying a revival
mauled his language so
is that His
all over London, is strictly verboten.
Excellency still believes that he carried
A candid movie of the British Royal
(Continued on Page D-2)
This is the view from the park, Grosvenor Square, home of the
American Embassy, with its famous eagle on the facade.
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Envoy's Wife In London
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a total upheaval. No ambas
apart from their own bedroom
community" was a training
the whole thing off in jaunty
sador who was living there
and sitting room. But Tricia's
for the first public role she has
fashion," writes the London
could do it, so this was an
visit set the decorating sched-
played.
Sunday Telegraph's Mandrake.
opportune time," Mrs. An-
ule a week back, Mrs. Annen-
Other ambassadors' wives in
Mrs. Annenberg agreed.
nenberg explains now.
berg said.
London have been very help-
The Ambassador did beauti-
"It was actually unsafe, and
Bill Hines, the Hollywood
ful. So far, Mrs. Annenberg
fully," she declared.
there was a major job of plas-
decorator who did the decor in
has made 12 of the many calls
Leonore Annenberg has
tering to be done after the
the Annenberg's 140-acre Palm
she will have to make.
been called many positive ad-
re wiring, and then of course,
Springs desert palace (where
She reads two London news-
jectives.
"a manifest ex-
the painting.
President Nixon was a guest
papers, The Times and The
hibit of Walter Annenberg's
"People seem to have the
during the Republican Gover-
Daily Mail (owned by their
good taste," by the anti-An-
impression that we were doing
nors Conference last year), is
friend Lord Rothermore), and
nenberg Philadelphia Maga-
this arbitrarily. The issue is
her choice for London.
glances at others. As to the
complexities of British politi-
zine; "disarming" by the Lon-
over now, and the work is
"We are now deeply in-
don Sunday Times, and "a
being done.
volved in color samplings,"
cals and the psychology of the
hostess with few, peers" by
she says, of the decor which is
country, she thinks that the
Mrs. Bruce Called
being "executed." Annenberg,
wife of an ambassador should
Associated Press
Evangeline Bruce, she said,
who is famous for his regard
not have political opinion.
Although she has softened
making her second point, has
for detail, has participated in
They have, she says, enter-
the increasingly harsh view
been "very helpful. Some peo-
all the decisions about the
tained "a cross section" of po-
of her husband, she too has
ple tried to suggest that
house, she says.
litical figures in London, al-
been subjected to the unfor-
they were upset. But Mrs.
"There's nothing we haven't
though Annenberg has been
tunate quotation: "Can you
Bruce called me, in America,
done together. Sometimes we
called - (not illogically) -
imagine those Bruces
and asked me to come over
disagree on small points. Then
unsympathetic to the socialist
they haven't even got finger
with my decorators. I stayed
we compromise, and do it his
government
bowls," she was reported by
with her as her guest:
way one time and mine next.
London 'Sets Pace'
the Sunday Telegraph as say-
But pressed, she cannot recall
She finds London changed
"There was a lot of newspa-
ing before leaving America.
any instances of disagree-
since she was there at 18 for a
per gossip. But I have just had
A friend's reply was said
ment.
summer. "It certainly does set
a lovely note from her, and
to have been, "I doubt wheth-
By November or December,
the pace in music, and
we are going to get together
er gentility is 'in' these days
soon."
for the unveiling, she feels
clothes," she says. The woman
they will be entertaining
who used to be on the best-
in London.'
Inevitably, the American
"friends rather than strang-
dressed list is still visible in
Agreed to Talk
colony in London are singing
ers." Meantime, they enter-
her choice of clothes. But
Despite all this and the resl-
swan songs for the Bruces,
tain at places like the Mira-
"when we moved to the des-
dential refurbishing, Mrs. An-
watching Annenberg move-
belle.
ert," she missed the New
nenberg did agree to an in-
ments with arrogant stares.
York showings and "bought
Annenberg is apparently in-
Main Line Pursuits
terview. In a cool, quiet room
less."
of the Embassy, she poured
censed at the ingratitude of
The Annenbergs, who own
Golf and bridge (Goren) are
morning tea and ranged over
the American correspondents
the Philadelphia Inquirer, Dai-
their pleasures, and concerts.
a variety of subjects.
in London, invited to a first-
ly News, TV Guide, The Morn-
They have no handicaps. "We
ever lunch he gave for them
ing Telegraph, the magazine
like fun golf." But London 80-
Her pretty brown eyes
shortly after his arrival. De-
Seventeen, and radio and TV
cial life is keeping them on
wide, she volunteers praise of
spite this, his press continued
stations all over the country,
their toes, with little chance to
the "charm of the Queen,"
bad.
Mrs. Wilson and British flow-
have been deeply involved
relax.
Tricia Nixon's recent visit,
with the Philadelphia Orches-
Their night life is demand-
ers.
as the guest of the Annen-
tra Association, the Philadel-
ing; dinners with the Roth-
When queried on a subject
bergs, provided some respite.
phia Museum of Art and many
ermeres, Lady Antonia Fras-
described by a press aide as
Tricia had an excellent press.
other pursuits which rich and
er, Lady Lambton, American
"off limits,' she chose to set
She stayed in the residence,
Main Line Philadelphians es-
hostess Mrs. Gilbert Miller
the record straight quickly.
in the one spare room of the
pouse.
and the David Metcalfes.
"It's inaccuracies that dis-
50-room mansion that the An-
She considers her back-
She doesn't miss the social
turb me," she said, speaking
nenbergs have kept livable,
ground "involvement in the
Continued on Page D-3
of the critical articles. "When
it's not accurate, or is out of
context, it makes a false Im-
pression. And really, it's
Smarter Fashions for Gals who are
poor journalism."
Two points on which she
wanted to set the record
straight concerned the redec-
oration of the residence, and
her good relations with the
wife of the previous ambassa-
TALL
dor, Mrs. David Bruce.
When Time magazine com-
pared the two men, calling
Annenberg "inarticulate" and
praising Bruce's professional-
or DEMI TALL®
ism, rumors of mutual antip-
athy stirred,
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When Time magazine com-
pared the two men, calling
Annenberg "inarticulate" and
praising Bruce's professional-
ism, rumors of mutual antip-
athy stirred.
'Blatant' Eagle
But even earlier, while be-
ing confirmed by the Senate
Foreign Relations Commit-
tee in March, Annenberg hit
the headlines over the "blat-
ant" eagle (which the British
promptly defended) and the
"shabby" state of Winfield
House, which Barbara Hut-
ton gave to the U.S. in 1946,
for the nominal sum of one
dollar.
Saying he had no intention
of criticizing the housekeep-
ing of the Bruces, Annenberg
announced, "there does come
a period when refurbishing
is the order of the day.' His
wife had already sent her
decorators to London. The re-
decoration would be at their
own expense, Annenberg tes-
tified.
"It seems impossible to get
across the idea that the Am-
bassador was asked by the
State Department if the resi-
dence could be re-wired. It
would take three and a half
months to do it, and involved
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of things." Sunday lunches
pages much, which in Britain
with 20 or 30 guests are one of
are passe. "Somehow every
her favorite forms of partying.
one seems to know what's
She isn't sure whether violins
going on without social pages.
will fit into Winfield House.
It gets around by telephone."
"I'll have to see how the resi-
dence works."
The Annenbergs plan a va-
cation this month, when Lon-
London from Philadelphia
don shuts up tight. They will
wasn't much more of a change
spend some time in Philadel-
than Philadelphia is from
phia, in Palm Springs and in
Palm, Springs, she told Ernes-
Chicago where Mrs. Annen-
tine Carter of their "great ad-
berg will visit a seriously ill
venture" into diplomatic life.
Their art collection (Re-
daughter.
noir, Monet, Van Gogh, Gau-
Leonore Cohn, niece of the
gain, Cezanne, Toulous-
Hollywood mogul Harry Cohn,
Lautrec, Degas, a 1926 Picasso
was formerly married to Lew-
and Wyeth's famous "The
is Rosentiel, the founder of
Mill," now hanging in Annen-
Schenley Distillers. They have
berg's office) - will be a ma-
two daughters. She married
jor part of the Winfield House
Annenberg, also previously
decor. They will be lent to the
married, in 1951.
Tate Gallery this summer un-
She is a Piscean (Feb. 20th)
til Mrs. Annenberg is ready to
Mrs. Annenberg steps into her Rolls Royce in London.
who reads her horoscope. She'
hang them.
is proud of her husband's
As she leaves her husband's
dancing prowess. And his hu-
office, Mrs. Annenberg (who
said after their visit to Buck-
mor. "It's his hearty laugh
contributed $2500 to President
ingham Palace. "For years
people like.
Nixon's campaign to comple-
when we came to England I
She isn't much of a worrier,
ment her husband's personal
used to watch the changing of
she says. "If you do things to
and editorial support over 20
the guard, but I never thought
the best of your ability, that's
years) - paused by a line of
I'd be inside.'
the most you can do. She is
Presidential portraits. They
The "guard" changed at the
not psychologically oriented,
stretch along the ambassadori-
White House, handing Annen-
but "likes people.
al corridor, hirsute and hand-
berg the most coveted post of
As for entertaining, she en-
some. The ambassadors' por-
all. "So long as the eagle
August Fur Sal
joys parties like "our last New
traits stretch along the oppo-
doesn't bother me, I will not
Year's, in the desert, when we
site side of the elevator.
bother it," the new ambassa-
had 20 violins playing.' A
"I started life with an awful
dor testified to Congress.
fine relaxant, she thinks, is
lot handed to me," Annenberg
The non-agression pact con-
"to ask people about them-
said not long ago. "It was like
tinues. Annenberg comes and
selves. That leads to all sorts
a dream in a way," his wife
goes without glancing up.
FYI
Ambassador Walter Annenberg called yesterday (12/17/69)
to make arrangements to send a gift to you and Mrs. Nixon
through me.
He wanted me to tell you again how proud he is of the job you
are doing, etc. Also hoped you had had an opportunity to read
his letter re the sale of his paper.
They are leaving for California today and will be in their home
there until January 3rd.
rmwoods
12/18/69
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A
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LONDON
May 20, 1970
Dear Rose Mary:
I have delayed until now replying to the
memorandum you sent me enclosing the letter
from Mrs. Ahlgren, as I wished to investigate
the situation fully.
I sincerely regret that Mrs. Ahlgren was
not pleased with Mr. Sulser's presentation, and
am also truthfully puzzled. Mr. Sulser is one
of the most knowledgeable and experienced
officers in our Political Section. His range
of responsibility includes British internal
politics and UK relations with Western Europe.
He has addressed a large number of audiences in
this country. In addition to addressing the
visiting American groups, he has addressed the
Joint Services Staff College, university inter-
national affairs groups, interested constituency
associations, political groups, and others, and
is frequently in demand to make reappearances
and seems to have been generally very well
received indeed. Mrs. Ahlgren's letter to
you is the only instance of criticism of
Mr. Sulser's speaking of which we have any
record at the Embassy.
Your memorandum and Mrs. Ahlgren's letter
have been discussed with Mr. Sulser. He is at
a loss to explain Mrs. Ahlgren's reaction, and
remembers that individual members of the group
told him after his briefing how pleased they
were. Mrs. Magee, the President of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs, wrote to him ex-
pressing her appreciation for his "informative
briefing on British-American relations and the
operations of the Embassy".
Miss Rose Mary Woods,
Secretary to The President,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
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I can only express my regret that Mrs. Ahlgren
was not satisfied with the briefing. We are well
aware of the importance of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs, and therefore are all the more
regretful that the briefing did not turn out to
be the success which we would have hoped.
Sincerely,
Walus Walter Annenberg United
Ambassador
May 20, 1970
Dear Rose Mary:
I have delayed until now replying to the
memorandum you sent me enclosing the letter
from Mrs. Ahlgren, as I wished to investigate
the situation fully.
I sincerely regret that Mrs. Ahlgren was
not pleased with Mr. Sulser's presentation, and
am also truthfully puzzled. Mr. Sulser is one
of the most knowledgeable and experienced
officers in our Political Section. His range
of responsibility includes British internal
politics and UK relations with Western Europe.
He has addressed a large number of audiences in
this country. In addition to addressing the
visiting American groups, he has addressed the
Joint Services Staff College, university inter-
national affairs groups, interested constituency
associations, political groups, and others, and
is frequently in demand to make reappearances
and seems to have been generally very well
received indeed. Mrs. Ahlgren's letter to
you is the only instance of criticism of
Mr. Sulser's speaking of which we have any
record at the Embassy.
Your memorandum and Mrs. Ahlgren's letter
have been discussed with Mr. Sulser. He is at
a loss to explain Mrs. Ahlgren's reaction, and
remembers that individual members of the group
told him after his briefing how pleased they
were. Mrs. Magee, the President of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs, wrote to him ex-
pressing her appreciation for his "informative
briefing on British-American relations and the
operations of the Embassy".
Miss Rose Mary Woods,
Secretary to The President,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
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I can only express my regret that Mrs. Ahlgren
was not satisfied with the briefing. We are well
aware of the importance of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs, and therefore are all the more
regretful that the briefing did not turn out to
be the success which we would have hoped.
Sincerely,
Walter Annenberg
Ambassador
Rose: Bessie says Foreign Service listing has
a Mr. Jack Sulser listed as "Political Officer"
at the Embassy - this is probably the Jack Selzer
Mrs. Ahlgren refers to in her letter.
April 1970
PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR: THE HONORABLE WALTER ANNENBERG
FROM:
ROSE MARY WOODS
SUBJECT:
ATTACHED LETTER
This letter, as you can see, has been sitting on my desk for
months. I do not know that there is any action necessary, but
I thought you should be warned in case another such group should
appear to be briefed by this same gentleman.
attachment Letter to RMW from Mrs. Oscar A. Ahlgren of
Gen. Federation of Women's Clubs
dated Oct. 16, 1969.
RMW:maf
General Federation of Women's Clubs
1734 n Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20036
G.F.W.C.
Mrs. Walter Varney Magee
Mildred Carlson Ahlgren
President
DIVERATI
Public Relations Director
October 16, 1969
Dear Miss Woods:
I wrote you in California but had no reply - perhaps you never received
the letter.
All I wanted to tell you - feeling that it would get to the President's
ear and not thrown away by someone if I sent it to the State Department - was
that when the 110 members of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, en route
to their NATO Conference last June, were briefed by the Embassy in London, it
was a sad affair.
To be perfectly honest, it was an insult to the organization. The man
who did it spent all the time explaining how many people were employed - what
their duties were, etc., and it was very evident that all he was interested in
was to get it over with. He hurried away as fast as he could. His name was
Jack Selzer.
We had briefings in Canada, Ireland, The Netherlands, Belgium and Austria
and they were superb. But they surely fell down in London. Well, maybe Mr. Selzer
had a headache or his feet hurt - who knows. Or perhaps he was not aware of the
prestige of the organization he was addressing. But in that case someone had not
done their homework as I had sent all kinds of information about GFWC to the Embassy
weeks before our arrival.
Everything good to you and our wonderful President.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Oscar A. Ahlgren
Public Relations Director
Miss Rose Mary Woods
Secretary to The President
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500
RMW
Should we keep this part of the Annenberg
file up here?
Yes
No
Marje
July 17, 1970
Dear Walter:
The gracious and very thoughtful offer so
typical of your kindness has just reached
me. Valuing your insights as I do, I was
especially pleased to note your comments
on the visit and I accept your exceptionally
generous suggestion. Whenever the annals
of friendship are written, surely the
Annenberge will take an outstanding place
within them.
With warmest personal regards,
Sincerely,
The Homorable Walter H. Anneaberg
American Ambassador
London
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Dear Mr. President:
Accompanying the Prince of Wales and his sister,
Princess Anne, from Winnipeg today was the happy
culmination of the invitation I had originally
suggested to you many months ago when I learned
Her Majesty was taking them to Canada. That Charles
and Anne might spend a few days with your young
people was an exciting thought for your Ambassador.
It is indeed my hope that you would not regard as
presumptuous if I sought the privilege, of defraying
the expense of the Dinner Dance tomorrow night.
Having known Tricia, Julie and David from infancy,
and having warm admiration for their Royal Highnesses,
I do trust that you will accede to my suggestion.
Sincerely,
Walter
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The Honorable Richard M. Nixon
The White House
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WASHINGTON 6, D.C.
July 16, 1970
Dear Mr. President:
Accompanying the Prince of Wales and his sister,
Princess Anne, from Winnipeg today was the happy
culmination of the invitation I had originally
suggested to you many months ago when I learned
Her Majesty was taking them to Canada. That Charles
and Anne might spend a few days with your young
people was an exciting thought for your Ambassador.
It is indeed my hope that you would not regard as
presumptuous if I sought the privilege of defraying
the expense of the Dinner Dance tomorrow night.
Having known Tricia, Julie and David from infancy,
and having warm admiration for their Royal Highnesses,
I do trust that you will accede to my suggestion.
Sincerely,
Walter
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The Honorable Richard M. Nixon
The White House
10/2/70
(innenbery)
Rose --
Clem Conger's office asked if I would send them
copies of the correspondence regarding the
George Washington platter which Ambassador
Annenberg sent to the President from Harrods
in London. **pax Apparently, they were upset
by the attached press release from Harrods,
because they think the platter is a gift to the
White House and it is "contemporary" and would
therefore not be acceptable!!
Mary
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 30, 1970
Mary,
Attached is a copy of the press
release on the George Washington
platter. It was sent to us by
a local reporter.
Betty Betty Monkman
Curator's Office
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Harrods
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR'S GENEROUS GIFT TO PLYMOUTH
PRESS
OFFICE
On Thursday September 10th His Excellency the
Harreds Limited
American Ambassador Mr. Walter H. Annenberg,
Knightsbridge
London SW1
visited Harrods exhibition - 'China & Glass
Telephone: 01-730 1234
for the Connoisseur and Investor'.
The Ambassador accepted on behalf of President
Nixon for the White House Collection, a diamond
point engraved platter showing the head of
George Washington, from the limited edition of
President's Plates made by Stuart. The plate
was presented by Lord Redmayrie, the Deputy
Press Officer
Chairman of Harrods, on behalf of the Chairman
Mrs Mary Gunther
and Directors of Harrods.
The Ambassador toured the exhibition following
the presentation, and generously decided to
make a personal gift of two 'Mayflower' pieces
to the City of Plymouth to commemorate the
350th anniversary of the sailing of the Pilgrim
Fathers to America.
Waterford's Mayflower Chalice
The first limited edition from Waterford, limited
to 20 pieces (£225). A cut crystal vase engraved
by T. Wall. The design shows the route the
Mayflower sailed. With the vase is a parchment
scroll and Waterford seal.
The Mayflower Bowl by Royal Worcester
The Mayflower Bowl is made in a limited edition
of 100 (£65). The bowl is decorated with the
names of the men and some boys who were passengers
on the Mayflower, together with the coat-of-arms
of those known to possess them, and recorded
signatures. The centre shows the Mayflower as
it would have appeared crossing the ocean, and
surrounding this the coat-of-arms of Plymouth,
Devon, and the seal of the Plymouth colony,
Massachussetts, where the plantation was
established.
The two pieces were commissioned by and are
exclusive to Harrods.
SEPTEMBER 15TH 1970
PRESERVATION COPY
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LONDON
September 10, 1970
Dear Mr. President:
This noon I went to Harrods, the famous
London department store with which I am sure
you are familiar, and received on your behalf
from the Directors of Harrods the glass plate
which accompanies this letter.
It is Issue No. 1 of a special creation of
Stuart glass crystal called "The President's
Plate Collection". The collection is to comprise
a limited annual edition of crystal platters en-
graved in diamond point with the head of a
President of the United States. The first
edition is of President Washington, and Harrods
and the Stuart Crystal management intend to con-
tinue with the head of a President of the United
States each year.
The ceremony I attended was in the Central
Hall at Harrods, presided over by Lord Redmayne,
Deputy Chairman of Harrods. There was an enthus-
iastic crowd of over 1500 people, and when Lord
Redmayne announced that he was presenting the
plate to you through me, the applause at the
mention of the President's name was warm and
long.
I accepted the plate on your behalf, and
took the liberty of suggesting that no doubt the
White House would be pleased to accept this plate
and other editions of the President's Plate
Collection.
The Honorable
Richard M. Nixon,
The President,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
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In addition to the other aspects of the
ceremony, I was touched by the profound interest
in and enthusiasm for you and for the American
people which the presentation symbolized.
With warmest personal regards,
Sincerely,
11500/m
Walter Annenberg
Ambassador
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LONDON
:
September 10, 1970
Dear Rose Mary:
Accompanying this letter is a letter from
me to the President and a ceremonial plate of
Stuart crystal presented to the President, and
which I received on his behalf, by the Directors
of Harrods Ltd. My letter to the President out-
lines the circumstances of the ceremony at which
it was presented, and I would be most grateful if
you would turn over my letter and the plate to the
President at his convenience.
With kindest personal regards.
Sincerely,
Waller
Walter Annenberg
Ambassador
Miss Rose Mary Woods,
Secretary to the President,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LONDON
;
September 10, 1970
Dear Rose Mary:
Accompanying this letter is a letter from
me to the President and a ceremonial plate of
Stuart crystal presented to the President, and
which I received on his behalf, by the Directors
of Harrods Ltd. My letter to the President out-
lines the circumstances of the ceremony at which
it was presented, and I would be most grateful if
you would turn over my letter and the plate to the
President at his convenience.
With kindest personal regards.
Sincerely,
Walter
Walter Annenberg
Ambassador
Miss Rose Mary Woods,
Secretary to the President,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LONDON
September 10, 1970
Dear Mr. President:
This noon I went to Harrods, the famous
London department store with which I am sure
you are familiar, and received on your behalf
from the Directors of Harrods the glass plate
which accompanies this letter.
It is Issue No. 1 of a special creation of
Stuart glass crystal called "The President's
Plate Collection". The collection is to comprise
a limited annual edition of crystal platters en-
graved in diamond point with the head of a
President of the United States. The first
edition is of President Washington, and Harrods
and the Stuart Crystal management intend to con-
tinue with the head of a President of the United
States each year.
The ceremony I attended was in the Central
Hall at Harrods, presided over by Lord Redmayne,
Deputy Chairman of Harrods. There was an enthus-
iastic crowd of over 1500 people, and when Lord
Redmayne announced that he was presenting the
plate to you through me, the applause at the
mention of the President's name was warm and
long.
I accepted the plate on your behalf, and
took the liberty of suggesting that no doubt the
White House would be pleased to accept this plate
and other editions of the President's Plate
Collection.
The Honorable
Richard M. Nixon,
The President,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
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In addition to the other aspects of the
ceremony, I was touched by the profound interest
in and enthusiasm for you and for the American
people which the presentation symbolized.
With warmest personal regards,
Sincerely,
Walher
Walter Annenberg
Ambassador
Walter Annenberg
Embassy London
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Washington D.C
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EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LONDON
December 4, 1970
Dear Rose Mary:
You will recall phoning me about the pro-
posed meeting that I was to have with Albert Cole
and Hobart Lewis of Reader's Digest, and which
indeed was held on October 5th. We had a most
pleasant conversation, and in addition to this
they were guests at a luncheon I was giving that
day for Mrs. Vincent Astor.
At the end of my meeting with the two gentle-
men, Al Cole said that he would send me a memorandum
on his return to the United States, copy of which
is enclosed herewith, dated November 9, 1970. I
am also enclosing my General Counsel Joseph M.
First's reply thereto under date of November 30.
While I regret our inability to accommodate
Reader's Digest, I am sure a careful reading of
Mr. First's communication will readily explain.
If you have any questions call me on the telephone.
Sincerely,
Walter Annenberg
Ambassador
Enclosures
Miss Rose Mary Woods,
Secretary to the President,
The White House.
feel
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TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC.
BROAD STREET
PHILADELPHIA A.19101
230 KING OF PRUSSIA RD.
P. O. BOX 750
RADNOR, PA. 19080
JOSEPH M. FIRST
VICE PRESIDENT & GENERAL COUNSEL
November 30, 1970
Mr. Albert L. Cole
Director
The Reader's Digest
Pleasantville, New York 10570
Dear Mr. Cole:
The spoke to no sometime SEO about
having in call and a vicit irom you, along with Mr. Hobart Lowis.
I feel sure that be vanto 100 to recephasize his general philose-
play of desiring to be wherever he can be. In this con-
nection he has formunded to LE a letter which you sent to him un-
doz date of November your 2270, for discussion by me with our
operating personnel and than for roply to you.
Frankly, I'do not vant to be in 22 position of
giving your organization logal savice. I an sure you have con-
potent persons to do that. However, 60 far as our organization
is concerned, I have advised it that I believe that the sugges-
tions rado by you would, If carried out, be illegal as a "con-
spiracy in restruint of trudo." Ao a matter of fact, our company
policy is to avoid as much 00 possible any association or group
action which can to micinterproted as being in restraint of trade
or which, in fact, would No in restraint of trade.
There 2, or course, the question to which I do
not address myselfied to visabler other clients of the SWM News
Company could complain 11 Subder's Ligest and others in the 5444
News Company tried to keep them off of supermarket check-out
counters in the 1000 of contractual commitment by S*M News Company
to use its best efforts in distributing them.
It clear to 100 that other regasines not
distributed by S*X Revo Company, as wall as those distributed by
ONCE News Company, could right:fully complain if TV Quide were to
join with Reader's Dispot and B. limited number of other magazines
in trying to convince the supervariest owners to keep all other mag-
asines off the chock-out country. This would bc, in my opinion,
as I have indicated, a "conspiracy in restraint of trade" and
Trianglo Publications, Inc. would not countenance that.
I repret that this may sound as a negative ap-
pronoh to the whole situation, since ordinarily I like to solve
problems rather then to create them, but I see no alternative to
be pursued in this mtter.
COPY
Mr. Albert L. Cole
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November 30, 1970
I note from your communication that you are as
active and involved as ever in the fortunes of Reader's Digest
and I take that as a good sign as far as your own health and acti-
vites are concerned.
Sincerely,
TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC.
Just
Josoph M. First
Vice President & General Counsel
JMF:0
c - Mr. Hobart Lewis
President & Editor-in-Chief
The Reader's Digest
The Reader's Digest
Pleasantville, Now York 10570
Albert L. Cole, DIRECTOR
RECEIVED 18 1970
November 9, 1970
AMBASSADOR'S OFFICE
Dear Walter:
After leaving you in London we played golf at Gleneagles for four days,
then went on to Sotogrande in Spain and later to the Algarve in Portugal,
arriving home last Tuesday in time to vote. I hope you agree that the
results of the election, although perhaps not equalling our fondest hopes,
were better than they might have been.
Now for the promised memo about possible opportunities for TV Guide
and Reader's Digest to continue cooperation designed to increase sales
and reduce costs for both of our publications. These, I assume are
objectives we both seek.
There are over 200, 000 supermarket checkout counters in the United States.
The checkout counter is a great spot for sales of magazines. However,
the space on these checkouts is limited. Ideally TV Guide would like
to have every rack on every checkout counter filled with the proper number
of TV Guides during the full sales period of each issue. Reader's Digest
would also like that. What is the best way to maintain this ideal situation
at the lowest possible cost for both your organization and ours? Manpower
is the obvious need. If the 35 Reader's Digest full-time field men, plus
the 91 S*M field men, plus a sizable number of part-timers whose job it
is now to go into supermarkets and see to it that all racks are kept properly
filled, do this job for TV Guide at the same time that they are doing it
for Reader's Digest, it seems to me that this would help to produce the
desired result at checkout counters and do this at a reduction in cost for
both RD and TV Guide, By the same token, if the TV Guide staff checked
the Reader's Digest at the same time that they checked their own magazine
at checkout counters, we no doubt would save money and have an improved
result. That should be mutually advantageous.
Family Circle magazine with 7 million sale monthly at checkout counters
is now distributed by the S*M News Company. Their special staff in the
field numbers 40 men. They now cooperate with the Digest men in keeping
racks full. They would be glad to provide the same kind of cooperation
to TV Guide. Wouldn't it really be desirable if the Digest, Family Circle
and TV Guide all worked together to see to it that racks at checkout counters
WOTD kent proparty filled nt all times?
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The Reader's Digest and TV Guide continue to share the cost of providing
racks to supermarkets. However we no longer work together in reracking
stores and opening new,ones.
The Kroger Supermarket chain is, as you know, a big one. They recently
made a test in 590 of their stores in 24 of their divisions designed to
determine whether they would make more money by limiting the magazines
on their checkout counters to four magazines - TV Guide, Family Circle,
Woman's Day and Reader's Digest - than to have more magazines at
checkouts. Their report to all of their managers says, "With fewer titles;
sales of TV Guide increased 56%, Reader's Digest sales increased 42.6%,
Family Circle by 10% and Woman's Day by 35.8%." The Kroger company
made 15.8% more profit from these four magazines than the total profit
from the nine magazines that had previously been displayed at checkout
counters. The magazines displayed in addition to the four mentioned
were Good Housekeeping, McCall's, Life and Redbook. The Kroger manage-
ment has already reracked all of their checkout counters for the display
of only TV Guide, the Digest, Family Circle and Woman's Day plus Dell
books. They have told their managers that as the reracking has cost a lot
of money which the publishers have paid, they have agreed not to change
the displays for at least two years. This test provides convincing evidence
that when there are a limited number of good selling magazines on a check-
out counter, the overall sales volume for each magazine is larger than it
would be when there are more magazines there, and also that each super-
market gets a larger sales volume and larger profit as a result.
The Reader's Digest men, the TV Guide men, and the Family Circle men
working together could certainly help to convince supermarket operators
that it is to their interest to have only a limited number of good selling
magazines on their checkout counters. For many years TV Guide, most
importantly, and Family Circle and Woman's Day plus the Reader's Digest
have established impressive records of saleability at checkout counters.
There are now continuous efforts being made by many other magazines
to get on checkout counters. If as the Kroger study shows this is not to
the best interest of supermarkets, there should be strong and continuous
efforts to have this fact understood by all supermarket chain operators.
I am sure that there are other ways in addition to those mentioned in
which TV Guide, Reader's Digest and Family Circle could cooperate with
mutual advantage to all three companies, If you think it would be worth-
while, I would be glad to go to Radnor with our circulation people and
those from Family Circle and sit down with whomever you suggest, in-
cluding Dave Lichtenberg, Mr. Bradfield and Joe First in the hope that
we can arrive at an understanding that will have mutual advantage for
all concerned.
I told you that Reader's Digest had been distributed by S*M for over
40 years and the fact that this relationship began when no one else
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would distribute the Reader's Digest on newsstands. I don't think I
mentioned that the Digest became a one-third owner of the S*M News
Company in 1943, which was soon after I left the Popular Science Company
(of which I was President) to go with the Reader's Digest as General
Manager. Since 1943 the Reader's Digest has been distributed by S*M
at cost with no profit to the S*M News Company. Today there are five
companies that are partners and who own all of the stock of the S*M
News Company. They include the original partners who are the McCall
Corp: the Popular Science Company that publishes Popular Science and
Outdoor Life, plus the Meredith Company, the Reader's Digest and Cowles
publications with both Family Circle and Look. The New York Times will
replace Cowles as an owner of S*M News at the time that they take over
the ownership of Family Circle.
In addition to the partners at the S*M News Company, this organization
distributes the paperback book line of Bantam Books which has the largest
volume in the paperback field, also New Yorker magazine, Newsweek,
U.S. News & World Report, and within the next few weeks Life, Time
Sports Afield and Fortune. The profit from the distribution of these publi-
cations, who are not partners in the S*M News Company, in effect reduces
the net cost of newsstand distribution for each of the owners of S*M.
Naturally since the company became a partner in this business the cost of
distributing the Reader's Digest has been low and sales have grown over
the entire period.
All of these factors, together with the factor of loyalty to the group who
provided help to the Digest when it was needed, explains just why the
Digest has stayed with this company for over 40 years.
I apologize for the length of this letter, but hope it gives you the kind
of information which you and your associates need to give further con-
sideration to possible re-establishment of close and effective cooperation
between our two companies and with Family Circle as well. If there
are other factors that are troublesome and that I don't know about, these
could be discussed in Radnor.
Sincerely a
The Honorable Walter Annenberg
The American Ambassador
U.S. Embassy
Grosvenor Square
London, England
P.S. At your noxt opportunity to got away consider going to Sotogrande
in southern Spain. There is a great Tront Jones golf course there,
beautiful weather, and a very lovely spot. My wife joins me in sending
best wishes to Mrs. Annenberg.
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LONDON
February 2nd, 1971
Dear Rose Mary,
Lee and I were pleased with
your January 26th communication, and
readily understand the delay in writing
us.
We, too, share your excite-
ment and hope concerning the President's
State of the Union speech. As I wired
John Ehrlichman following the message,
I should like to quote one of the pass-
ages contained in my telegram to John,
"The contents underscore the President,
not only a superb Statesman, but a most
resourceful and imaginative Executive.
"
Warmly,
Walter Annenberg,
Ambassador
Miss Rose Mary Woods,
Secretary to the President
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
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EMBASSY OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
February 22, 1971
read, 2/27/71
Dear Rose Mary:
Will you please see that the
President gets the enclosed at the
earliest possible moment.
Cordially,
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Waller
Walter Annenberg
Ambassador
Miss Rose Mary Woods,
Secretary to the President,
The White House.
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EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LONDON
February 22, 1971
Dear Mr. President:
Peregrine Worsthorne's interview with you,
which appeared in the February 14 issue of the
Sunday Telegraph, was a gracious gesture on your
part, and yet understandable in the light of his
consistently objective coverage of the United
States and your Administration in that publication.
A concensus of opinions that I sought agrees that
the substantive thrust of his description of the
aims and objectives of the Administration and of
your manner of leading the nation toward these
goals was reasonably and effectively covered.
I regret, however, that his concluding para-
graphs indicate that he took advantage of your
privacy and your generosity in dealing with people
and, unfortunately, bore the stamp of presumption.
I am pleased to enclose a second piece appear-
ing in the February 21 edition of the Sunday Telegraph
in which he underscores that he is a better columnist
writing an essay than a reporter doing an interview.
Sincerely,
Waller
Walter Annenberg
Ambassador
Enclosure.
The President,
The White House.
THE SUNDAY TELEGRA
P
RESIDENT Eisenhower,
it will be recalled, put
an end to the Korean war
on terms that seemed to
justify all the blood and
NIXON,
SON
treasure that America had
spent on its prosecution. A
similar achievement is begin-
ning to look possible for
President Nixon in Vietnam.
Just as America succeeded
in guaranteeing a non-Com-
OF
IKE
munist, independent South
Korea, divided at the 38th
parallel, free of northern
infiltration and subversion, so
PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE
now America seems poised on
the brink of succeeding in its
long struggle to do the same
just back from the United States, reports a mood of infectious
for South Vietnam.
optimism in Washington. Can Nixon match Eisenhower's magic
No wonder a mood of infec-
in Korea and bring victory out of Vietnam's long list of defeats?
tious optimism pervades the
White House today. Putting
an end to the Korean war was
more reliable guide to the
critics in Washington, that
Vietnamese, the Americans
the great achievement of the
future than his predecessor,
their attitude to any talk of
came to deify them. Irra-
Eisenhower presidency. It
Walt Rostow, who was always
victory in Vietnam is exactly
tional assumptions of Ameri-
was regarded at the time as
heralding victory as just
the reverse; that they regard
can omnipotence gave way to
an incredible miracle which
round the corner.
optimism as somehow unpat-
equally irrational assumptions
only a magician like Ike
All one can say is that after
riotic, not to say subversive,
of American impotence.
could perform. But then Ike
long talks with both the Presi-
even sinful, as well, of course,
The manifestly crushable
was universally regarded as
dent and Mr. Kissinger, this
as illiberal and reactionary.
tin-pot ramshackle State of
a
magician.
reporter is persuaded that it
All this is perfectly under-
North Victnam became trans-
Nixon hitherto has enjoyed
is more reasonable today to
standable. America went into
formed into an indestructible
no such reputation. For him
be optimistic than pessimistic.
the Vietnam war utterly con-
race of supermen against
to pull off such a triumph, in
The Administration can
vinced that an advanced
whom advanced technology
even more difficult circum-
mount formidable arguments
industrial Great Power was
was totally powerless. All the
stances, would be doubly
for concluding that the Laos
bound to be able to impose
contempt which initially had
incredible, establishing him in
operation this year, following
its will on a small, ram-
governed the American
the eyes of the American
and running parallel with the
shackle, tin-pot society like
approach to North Vietnam
people, and more important,
operation begun last year in
North Vietnam. There was
was transferred to South
perhaps, in his own eyes, as
Cambodia, is in process of
initially no true understand-
Vietnam.
the veritable " son of Ike."
disarming the North Viet-
ing of the realities involved in
namese potentiality for offen-
fighting a guerrilla war.
sive action to the point where
American omnipotence was
American bluff
The sceptics' view
the South can safely be
simply assumed as an article
regarded as invulnerable.
of faith. As a result of a
Having grotesquely patron-
The critics in Congress, and
decade of cruel disillusion,
ised and despised their Asian
To don the mantle of his
in the newspaper offices, with
this absurd, unjustified under-
enemy, American opinion
great mentor has always been
Mr. Nixon's wildest ambition.
whom I also talked at length,
estimation of North Viet-
began grotesquely to patron-
are not able to challenge
namese potentialities gave
ise and despise their Asian
Hitherto it has been a Walter
these conclusions with
way to an equally far-fetched
ally. Just as at the outset of
Mitty dream, as inconceivable
as that Eden should succeed
rational counter arguments.
counter-conclusion. Having
the American involvement it
in rising to the stature of
All they can say is that the
begun by scorning the North
seemed inconceivable that
North Vietnamese have so
Churchill. (When Eden did
often done the impossible'
try such an experiment at
Suez, it ended in fiasco.)
in the past that nobody can
be certain that they will not
But the chances of Mr.
do so again.
Nixon now realising his great
In other words, the critics
dream are by no means neg-
do not any longer seek to
DECIMAL
ligible. It really is beginning
argue with the Administration
to look as if, thanks to him,
on the level of rational
America may be about to
debate. They fall back on
achieve its purpose in South
blind defeatism, on mindless
CURRENCY
Vietnam. If the Laos opera-
gloom. They simply refuse to
tion succeeds, the scene
believe in victory almost on
could be set for an eventual
principle, not rationally but
settlement on a Korean pat-
BOARD
instinctively, not because the
tern-a divided Vietnam with
facts do not suggest a satis-
the South able to survive for
factory outcome, but because
the foresecable future.
they do not wish to study the
The sceptics, of course, still
facts.
refuse to take this prospect
In the early stages of the
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seriously. They point to
Second World War the inclina-
yo
earlier so-called turning
tion in Britain was to believe
points in the war which past
in victory in spite of all the
Administration spokesmen
overwhelming rational calcu-
heralded as likely to be deci-
lations which pointed inexor-
sive, only to have their hopes
ably towards defeat. Victory
about shop
cruelly shattered by unpre-
was not a reasonable assump-
dicted North Vietnamese
tion; it was a matter of faith.
initiatives. One such critic
Among the Administration's
showed me a whole host of
critics today the reverse is
optimistic background brief-
true. Defeat has become a
ing transcripts during the
matter of faith, to be believed
Johnson period which turned
in despite all the accumulat-
out in the event to be tragi-
ing evidence to the contrary.
cally misleading.
Queen Victoria, during the
Perhaps, then, Mr. Nixon's
Boer War, had a notice put up
present hopes will soon prove
in Buckingham Palace saying
When a shop shows two p
to be as insubstantial as
There will be no defeatist
Johnson's, and Henry Kis-
talk permitted in this house."
which price to pay?
singer, the present White
One almost got the impres-
House grey eminence, a no
sion, visiting Administration
There are two reasons:
7d
1. Because it would be d
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FEBRUARY 21, 1971
Page 7
constituted the fashionable
illusion. Today, Mr. Kissinger
is convinced, a no less
dangerous illusion has caught
the popular imagination: the
inevitability of defeat.
Mr. Kissinger believes it to
be the task of the realist
today to prick the defeatist
bubble, just as ten years
ago it was to prick the bubble
of complacency. He is no
longer worried by the possi-
bility of the North Viet-
namese pulling off some cata-
strophic surprise. Much more
dangerous and possible in the
long run, in his view, is the
possibility. of the South Viet-
namese doing something un-
toward. One almost got the
impression from Mr. Kis-
singer that he is more wor-
ried today that the South
11
Vietnamese will invade the
North than vice versa.
Richard Nixon riding into the Vice-Presidency in 1952 on the Eisenhower ticket
A major gamble
American aid could not guar-
victory, only delayed long
accepted wisdom, America
He would be the first to
antee Saigon victory, so as
enough to save America's
is being faced with a new
admit, of course, that the pre-
the years passed it became
face. The last two years,
surprise-a resilient South
sent Laos operation could
accepted as equally axiomatic
however, have drastically
Vietnam and a crumbling
make this kind of talk look
that American aid could not
altered his judgment. Viet-
North.
very foolish. If the South
possibly avoid Saigon's defeat.
namisation has succeeded
Vietnamese, who are for the
This lesson will take time
Henry Kissinger is engag-
beyond his wildest expecta-
first time on their own, were
to sink in, as did its opposite.
ingly frank on this point. He
tions.
to suffer a major defeat. the
It will be as difficult and pain-
admits that on first coming
Once again America is dis-
ful for the Americans to re-
whole programme of Viet-
namisation would have been
into the White House his
covering how dangerous it is
discover their faith in South
shot to tatters. In this sense
assumption was that the
to be certain about anything
Vietnam in the 1970s as it
Nixon policy of combining
in Asia. Initially, they
was difficult and painful for
it is a major gamble. But it
is a gamble which would only
American withdrawal with
thought that the South Viet-
them to lose it in the 1960s,
have been taken if the
rapid Vietnamisation was in
namese would be reliable
and as difficult and painful for
Administration was over-
effect little more than a face-
allies and the North Viet-
them to lose their faith in
whelmingly confident in its
saving formula. The Viet-
namese a walk-over enemy.
North Vietnam as it was for
successful outcome.
namisation programme was
It took them ten years to
them to develop it.
The point that needs to be
seen as a bluff designed to
learn the opposite lessons and
Just as in the 1960s they
grasped is that so long as
build up a slightly more
to conclude that the South
could not take Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamisation was regarded
favourable negotiating posi-
Vietnamese were hopeless
and Giap seriously, so today
simply as a bluff it would
tion from which to reach a
and the North Vietnamese
they underestimate Thieu
have been inconceivable to
settlement that would in
indestructible. But just when
and Ky. Then it was the
effect be a North Vietnamese
this view has become the
inevitability of victory which
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industry to whip up passionate
Protected by
opposition.
The point can be summarised
like this. It is politically out of
the question for President Nixon
to behave in Vietnam as Presi-
Johnson's fate
dents Kennedy and Johnson did:
that is to say, to try to sell
the operation as a crusade. But
I
it is equally politically impossible
for his opponents to behave as
risk having it called until
one talked to doubted the over-
Eugene McCarthy and Robert
1
whelming opposition of the
Kennedy did in 1968: that is to
after the American with.
American people to any con-
say, to try to whip up a crusade
drawals were virtually com-
tinuing large-scale ground force
against Vietnam. If the Ameri-
plete. The Americans, in the
involvement in the war. The
can people will not stand for
I
mood of even a year ago,
agony of the past ten years has
the one, neither will they stand
(
10
were anxious to avoid giving
induced an absolute insistence
for the other.
(
eys
UC
the North Vietnamese any
on the troops being brought
Both the Administration and
new
opportunity to disprove the
home. But this, they say, is not
its critics are forced by political
fiction of Vietnamisation,
the only consequence of the past
necessity to play it cool-a rôle
since to preserve it intact was
few years. Just as important,
for which Mr. Nixon sees him-
nH
absolutely necessary to jus-
although much less appreciated,
self ideally cast, much more so
tock
tify the policy of withdrawal.
is the determination by the
than any Democratic contender
)
I'I JC
majority of the American pub-
yet in sight. In this respect
ns
¥
They were determined to
lic never again to tolerate the
the President seems to see him-
ydnε
guard the South Vietnamese
kind of anarchic protest that
self as protected by the fate of
]
Me
from any danger of humilia-
brought about President John-
his predecessor. By toppling
It IC
tion until withdrawal was vir-
son's abdication. In other words,
Johnson the anti-war movement
tually completed. As it is,
Vietnam has not only induced
over-reached itself, guaranteeing
dxe
an anti-war feeling; it has also
that nothing of this kind could
however, they have con-
[EM
USS
sciously and purposefully
induced an equally strong anti-
be repeated for many years to
anti-war feeling.
come. Johnson's experience, in
S
courted having the bluff
short, was not so much a warn-
n1
called, confident that the
As one White House aide put
ing for Nixon to heed as a
b
North Vietnamése dare not
it: It may well be true that
vaccine enabling his successor
Nixon could not get away with
an
and cannot do SO. They really
to be immune from such attacks
escalating the war. But it would
in the future.
ON
do believe that, given Ameri-
be just as much political suicide
ndo
can air support and supplies,
for the Democrats to try to re-
Again, as I say, Mr. Nixon
qt
the South Vietnamese can
escalate the protest movement
may be unduly optimistic. But
no visitor to America can avoid
lex
win the war by their own
against the war. For if there is
an
efforts.
one thing the Americans are
noticing the absence of passion,
dx
more sick of today than fighting
compared with two years ago.
Whether this faith is justified
in the jungles abroad it is fight-
Crusades are out, not only
au
only time will tell. But that it
abroad but also at home. It is
uo
exists at all in the higher
ing in the street and campuses
not only the military authorities
at
reaches of the Administration is
at home.
who are finding the young diffi-
50
a fantastic phenomenon. For
This, I believe, to be pro-
cult to draft. The student pro-
10
make no mistake, we are back
al
foundly true, and of the greatest
test leaders are finding them
in effect to the very mood in
equally unresponsive. If the
P'
which America first became
young are reluctant to be shot
involved in Vietnam, back to
at by the Viet Cong in the jungle,
1960 if not 1954, when Eisen-
they seem equally sceptical
hower assumed that American
Heath rings a bell
about the point of allowing
interests in Asia could be pur-
themselves to be shot at by the
sued by encouraging good
National Guard on the cam-
Asians to fight bad Asians,"
M
R. HEATH'S reputation stands
puses. There is a revulsion
with the aid only of American
astonishingly high.
The
and disgust at those who pur-
air and sea power.
United States Attorney-General,
sue policies that result in
Mr. John Mitchell, who comes
atrocities such as My Lai in
closest to being a Nixon crony,
Vietnam, and an equally deep
Asia's new spirit
told me that the President and
revulsion against those who pur-
Prime Minister were constantly
sue policies that result in the
on the telephone together, like
killings of Kent University.
A year ago such an idea
a couple of old women.'
would have been mocked, even
It is strange how telephonic com-
by this Administration, as
munication seems to be a sign of
Deep yearning
utterly anachronistic, and wholly
status with this Administration.
exploded by the Vietnam experi-
Another Presidential colleague,
In other words, it is not only
ence of the last ten years. Now,
anxious to show his high opinion
governing America that has
however, the thinking is very
of Heath, emphasised how the
become a highly delicate opcΓa-
different. The Eisenhower idea
Prime Minister had been tele-
tion. So also has opposing those
is no longer thought of as
phoned every night during the
who govern. Public sympathy
being out of date today but
Jordanian crisis. And a third,
and patience are as quickly lost
as having been premature then.
with the same purpose in mind,
by those who rock the boat
When Eisenhower first pro-
said that throughout the night
excessively as by those who set
pounded it in the early 1950s
of the British election results,
it on an excessively ambitious
it was an idea whose time had
the President had telephoned
course.
not yet come. But today it is
him (the aide) three times to
This may be Mr. Nixon's
an idea whose time has come.
ask how Heath was doing, only
greatest source of political
Twenty years ago South-East
relaxing into sweet slumber
strength. If he can persuade R
Asia was a vacuum, with no
when his victory was assured.
majority of the American people
indigenous political and military
If American Presidents gave
that what he is trying to do in
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forces capable of filling it, apart
honorific titles there would
Vietnam is cautious and respon-
from the Communists. Now,
clearly be Lords-in-Waiting-on-
sible, the dangers of trying to
however, South-East Asia is
the-Telephone, in the ranks of
oppose him may well appear as
ready for the Eisenhower doct-
which the Prime Minister would
more damaging than the dangers
rine, with non-Communist Japan
enjoy a high place.
of allowing him a free hand-
about to overtake China as the
continuing but decelerating
dynamic giant of the area, and
bloodshed in Vietnam less
China itself no longer regarded
horrendous a prospect than a
as the inevitable wave of the
resumption of bloodshed on the
future. The new spirit of South
political significance. For if
streets of America itself.
Vietnam, in short, is seen as
President Nixon is circumscribed
Mr. Nixon himself is not a
part of a far wider resurgence
in terms of the violence he can
popular leader. But he is fortu-
unleash in Vietnam without
of non-Communist Asian political
nate in occupying the White
and military strength in the
catastrophically losing support,
House at a period when there
so are the Democrats circum-
context of which American
is a deep yearning for the
influence can be constructively
scribed in terms of the violence
authority of the Presidency to
exerted without the need for
they can unleash at home with-
be re-established, a real concern
large-scale ground troop involve-
out also catastrophically losing
that there should be no repett-
ments.
support. The President is com-
tion of the anarchic disintegra.
pelled by political necessity to
tion that marked the last two
The obvious danger is that the
operate pacifically in Viet-
years of his predecessor's reign.
Communists may to be
But
so
this
which America first became
involved in Vietnam, back to
at by the Viet Cong in the jungle,
1960 if not 1954, when Eisen-
they seem equally sceptical
hower assumed that American
Heath rings a bell
about the point of allowing
interests in Asia could be pur-
themselves to be shot at by the
sued by encouraging " good
National Guard on the cam-
Asians to fight bad Asians,"
with the aid only of American
M
R. HEATH'S reputation stands
puses. There is a revulsion
astonishingly high.
The
and disgust at those who pur-
air and sea power.
United States Attorney-General,
sue policies that result in
Mr. John Mitchell, who comes
atrocities such as My Lai in
closest to being a Nixon crony,
Vietnam, and an equally deep
Asia's new spirit
told me that the President and
revulsion against those who pur-
Prime Minister were constantly
sue policies that result in the
on the telephone together, like
killings of Kent University.
A year ago such an idea
a couple of old women."
would have been mocked, even
It is strange how telephonic com-
by this Administration, as
munication seems to be a sign of
utterly anachronistic. and wholly
Deep yearning
status with this Administration.
exploded by the Vietnam experi-
Another Presidential colleague,
In other words, it is not only
ence of the last ten years. Now,
anxious to show his high opinion
governing America that has
however, the thinking is very
of Heath, emphasised how the
become a highly delicate opera-
different. The Eisenhower idea
Prime Minister had been tele-
tion. So also has opposing those
is no longer thought of as
phoned every night during the
who govern. Public sympathy
being out of date today but
Jordanian crisis. And a third,
and patience are as quickly lost
as having been premature then.
with the same purpose in mind,
by those who rock the boat
When Eisenhower first pro-
said that throughout the night
excessively as by those who set
pounded it in the early 1950s
of the British election results,
it on an excessively ambitious
it was an idea whose time had
the President had telephoned
course.
not yet come. But today it is
him (the aide) three times to
This may be Mr. Nixon's
an idea whose time has come.
ask how Heath was doing, only
greatest source of political
Twenty years ago South-East
relaxing into sweet slumber
strength. If he can persuade a
Asia was a vacuum, with no
when his victory was assured.
majority of the American people
indigenous political and military
If
American Presidents gave
that what he is trying to do in
forces capable of filling it, apart
honorific titles there would
Vietnam is cautious and respon-
from the Communists. Now,
clearly be Lords-in-Waiting-on-
sible, the dangers of trying to
however, South-East Asia is
the-Telephone, in the ranks of
oppose him may well appear as
ready for the Eisenhower doct-
which the Prime Minister would
more damaging than the dangers
rine, with non-Communist Japan
enjoy a high place.
of allowing him a free hand—
about to overtake China as the
continuing but decelerating
dvnamic giant of the area, and
bloodshed in Vietnam less
China itself no longer regarded
horrendous a prospect than a
as the inevitable wave of the
resumption of bloodshed on the
future. The new spirit of South
political significance. For if
streets of America itself.
Vietnam, in short, is seen as
President Nixon is circumscribed
Mr. Nixon himself is not a
part of a far wider resurgence
in terms of the violence he can
popular leader. But he is fortu-
of non-Communist Asian political
unleash in Vietnam without
nate in occupying the White
and military strength in the
catastrophically losing support,
House at a period when there
context of which American
so are the Democrats circum-
is a deep yearning for the
influence can be constructively
scribed in terms of the violence
authority of the Presidency to
exerted without the need for
they can unleash at home with-
be re-established, a real concern
large-scale ground troop involve-
out also catastrophically losing
that there should be no repeti-
ments.
support. The President is com-
tion of the anarchic disintegra-
pelled by political necessity to
tion that marked the last two
The obvious danger is that the
operate pacifically in Viet-
years of his predecessor's reign.
Communists may refuse to be
nam. But so are his critics at
In one sense, therefore, his
deterred or to give up, and that
home compelled to operate
weakness is his strength, since
forces supplied and supported
pacifically in their opposition.
he is too insecure to be sub-
by the United States could be
The experience of the past
jected to rough handling, too
fighting throughout Indo-China
few years, in short, has clipped
inflammable for anybody to dare
for many years to come. One
can only assume that the
the wings of hawks and doves,
approach him with fire. His
limited the manner in which the
very lack of armour is his best
Administration is confident
that nothing of this kind is
Vietnam war can be prosecuted,
protection, since all but the most
but also the manner in which it
extreme are reluctant to do him
going to happen, and that even
if it does, it will not interfere
can be opposed. Wild actions
mortal damage.
with the announced withdrawals
abroad are now politically taboo.
This is not the ideal basis for
of American ground troops. In
But so are wild words at home.
Presidential power. But it is the
other words, air escalation is
The Administration struck me as
best available, and one on
being very much aware of this,
which Mr. Nixon rests with a
assumed to be politically safe,
so long as ground force de-esca-
and to have concluded from it
wry kind of dignity and courage
lation continues as planned. This
that if they act with moderation
that is at once touching and
again is a formidable gamble,
in Vietnam-that is to say, sup-
impressive. Unable to command
based on an equally optimistic
port limited South Vietnamese
love, he has done the next best
assessment of what is happen-
operations - public opinion
thing rendered himself immune
ing in America,
would be more sympathetic to
to hate. It is no mean achieve-
such a course than it would be
ment.
Nobody in the Administration
to any attempt by the protest
© 1971 The Sunday Telegraph.
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R.N.
4/1/71
Ambassador Annenberg called rmw from Palm Springs:
"We will be here until the 18th - probably will go to the
Eisenhower Medical Dinner and then fly back to London on the 19th.
"I wish you would remind the President that anytime the
family would like to come here the place is open for them
"Also - I would like him to know that I want to give a gift
to Chequers in commemoration of the historic gathering on the 3rd of
October last year. The first occasion when the Monarch was ever present.
I think it was a great and historic occasion to have the President, the
Monarch, the Prime Minister together for a meeting. Will you indicate
to the President that a swimming pool would very much appeal to the present
occupant. I thought the President ought to know what I have in mind. You
might also tell the President that I have another undertaking that Axxax
I am going to engage in next year - building an Archives Building up at
Churchill College in Cambridge.
"After you are in that country for a few years, the tradition
and impact of history really gets to you and you want to take part in it.
"I sent you a note about
. I thought
it was rather gratuitous - I resented his column very much. The rest of
the interview was alright the conclusion was very presumptuous to think
that he, this report, had a bigger priotrity with the President than the
astronauts. I told bxx the publisher that the nature of the President is such
that he is very polite, attentive, all he wanted to indicate was a respectful
bigxx bit of attention - he had no right to construe that he was more important
to the President than the astronauts.
On this gift I don't want any publicity to get out on that -
don't want any trouble with the Labor Party - so I want it well underway or
done hedx before we make an announcement that it is in commemoration of the
historic meeting with the President, the Monarch and the Prime Minister.
-
& answer re
gift he plans to
give to Chequers
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LONDON
March 26th, 1971
Dear Rose Mary,
I don't know whether you read the
Peregrine Worsthorne interview, a copy
of which was sent to you, but I did want
you to note my letter to him of today.
I did indicate my displeasure to
"Telegraph" officials over the conclud-
ing paragraphs in which Worsthorne made
himself more important than the President's
getting to the telephone to talk with the
astronauts.
Sincerely,
Walter Annenberg
Ambassador
Miss Rose Mary Woods,
Secretary to the President,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
March 26th, 1971
Mr. Peregrine Worsthorne,
"The Telegraph",
135 Fleet Street,
London, E.C.4.
Dear Mr. Worsthorne,
While the excellence of your journal-
istic endeavors hardly needs confirmation from
me, I do want you to know that I continue to
very much admire the skill that you have brought
to your profession.
I know that you have been apprised of
my sensitivity over the concluding lines of your
interview with the President, but you were in-
deed within the ground rules of a reporter's
right. My regret reflected a sentimental attach-
ment to a great and good man, who is unfailingly
polite and attentive to a guest.
I continue to look forward to reading
your column with eager anticipation.
Sincerely,
Walter Annenberg
American Embassy Residence,
Regent's Park,
London, N.W.1.
WA:S
Walter ... Annenberg
EMBASSY OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LONDON
Miss Rose Mary Hoods,
Secre+ary to the President,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
April 19, 1971
Dear Mr. Ambassador:
Former Under Secretary of the Interior, Fred J.
Russell, plans to visit London from June 6 through
the 10th, and will be staying at the Royal Lanenster
Hotel.
He has been a long-time, loyal supporter of the
President and is a delightful person. I am sure you
and Lee would enjoy meeting him, and I would greatly
approciate may courtesies you might extend to him
during his visit.
With warmest personal regards to Lee and to you,
Sincerely,
Rose Mary Woods
Secretary to the President
Honorable Walter Annemberg
American Ambassador
London
RMW:ma
April 14, 1971
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Mrs. Maggie Runkle
Personal Assistant to the Secretary
Department of State
FROM:
Rose Mary Woods
Secretary to the President
Former Under Secretary of the Interior, Fred J. Russell
will be travelling in Europe from April 30 through June 6.
He will be travelling with a group called "Auto Club
Spring Blossom Tour".
I am attaching a copy of his itinerary, and would greatly
appreciate your notifying our embasstes of his visit.
Since he is and has been a loyal supporter any courtesies
that could be extended to him would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
RMW:ma
Fud g. Russill I tinerary
Paris, France -
Brussels, Belgium -
April 30, May 1, 2, 3
May 31, June 1
Grand Hotel
Hotel Plaza
Zurich Airport, Switzerland -
Amsterdam, Holland -
June 2, 3
May 4
Alpha Hotel
Lucerne, Switzerland -
London, England -
May 4, 5, 6
June, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Palace Hotel
Royal Lancaster Hotel
LuGano, Switzerland -
May 8, 9
Europa Hotel
Florence, Italy -
May 10-11
Baglioni-Palace Hotel
Capri, Italy -
May 12, 13
Caesar Augustus Hotel
Rome, Italy -
May 14, 15, 16
Savoia Hotel
Venice, Italy -
May 18, 19
Europa -Britannia Hotel
Vienna, Austria -
May 22, 23, 24
Park Schonbrunn Hotel
Salzburg, Austria -
May 25, 26
Schloss St. Rupert Hotel
Munich, Germany -
May 27-28
Holiday Inn
dron 1971 Fred SPRING JRussell
MAILING INSTRUCTIONS
Letters should be sent to tour participants by AIR MAIL, allowing
6 days for delivery. The arrival date and tour title and number
should be shown on the envelope. The tour title and number is "Auto
Club Spring Blossom Tour (LisLind 811-1C)". Postage is 20¢ per 1
oz. or 13¢ for a pre-franked Air Letter form. Here is a sample of
the correct way to address a letter:
Mr. John Doe,
Auto Club Spring Blossom Tour (LisLind 811-1C)
C/O Hotel Plaza
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
arriving May 31
CITY & COUNTRY
HOTEL
ARRIVAL DATE
PARIS, FRANCE
Grand
April 30
LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND
Palace
May 4
LUGANO, SWITZERLAND
Europa
May 7
RAPALLO, ITALY
Bristol
May 9
FLORENCE, ITALY
Baglioni-Palace
May 10
CAPRI, ITALY
Caesar Augustus
May 12
ROME, ITALY
Savoia
May 14
SAN MARINO, ITALY
Grand
May 17
VENICE, ITALY
Europa-&-Britannia
May 18
VELDEN, AUSTRIA
Schloss Velden
May 20
VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Park Schonbrunn
May 22
SALZBURG, AUSTRIA
Schloss St. Rupert
May 25
MUNICH, GERMANY
Holiday Inn
May 27
ROTHENBURG, GERMANY
Goldener Hirsch
May 29
MAINZ, GERMANY
Mainz Hilton
May 30
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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
Plaza
May 31
AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND
Alpha
June 2
COVENTRY, ENGLAND
Leofric
June 4
BATH, ENGLAND
Francis
June 5
LONDON, ENGLAND
Royal Lancaster
June 6
It is the responsiblity of each participant to enquire for his
own mail and to leave a forwarding address, if desired. Should
it be necessary to change any of the hotels, participants will
be advised as far in advance as possible.
December 29, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR:
David Parker
Ramany
FROM:
Rose Mary Woods
The suggestion in your memorandum of December 23rd concerning
the Mayor of Philadelphia should be forgotten. I have had my talk
with Walter Annenberg and will tell Bob Haldeman about it.
Thanks.