LETTER TO FRED W. FRIENDLY FROM WILLIAM H. WEBSTER

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• Publication Date: January 5, 1988
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Director of Central Intelligence
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January 5, 1988
Mr. Fred W. Friendly
Director
Columbia University Seminars on Medi"a~
and Society/Graduate School of Journalism
Suite 248
475 Riverside Drive
New York, New York 10115
Your letter of December 16th did not arrive here until
December 29th, at which time I was in California for New Year's
and have just returned. You know how much I'd like to do the
seminars in San Francisco. You have a marvelous group
assembled. At the same time, I have participated in enough of
your programs to ,know how important it is for you 'to lock up
the roster. My travel-schedule is so .heavy in January and
February that I am reluctant to give you a firm commitment now,
and that translates into .asking-for a raincheck.
Thanks for being so patient and understanding with me.
You must know how-much I respect what you .are doing in this
area.-and how much I enjoy participating when I can. Still, the
show must go on.~
Warmest regards to you and love to Ruth,
Sincerely,
William H. Webster
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COLL;IMBIA UNIVERSI
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on Media and Society /Graduate School o ournali S
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475 Riverside Drive
Suite 248
New. York,.N.Y. 10115
(212) 2803666
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Richard M. Clurman
Chairman
Floyd Abrams
John Seigenthaler
Vice Chairmen
E3urton Benjamin
Lester Bernstein
Robert L. Bernstein
Louis D. Boccardi
Thornton Bradshaw
Tyrone Brown
William F. Buckley; Jr.
McGeorge Bundy
John C. Burton
Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Mary Anne Dolan
Osborn Elliott
Harold Evans
Katherine Fanning
Michael G. Gartner
James C. Goodale
Meg Greenfield
Henry A. Grunwald
John Mason Harding
Pamela Hill
Lee Hills
James Hoge
John Jay Iselin
W. Thomas Johnson
Lewis B. Kaden
Joan Konner
Irving Krisiol
David Laventhol
Robert C- Maynard
Edward N. Nev
Michael J. O'Neill
Bruce L. Paisner
Warren H. Phillips
Gilbert M. Reich
Gene Roberts
Robert D. Sack
Herbert Schmertz
Irving S. Shapiro
Howard Simons
Michael l.Sovern
James D. Squires
Arthur O. Sulzberger
Laurence A. Tisch
Thomas Winship
Fred W. Friendly
Director
Cynthia McFadden
Executive Producer
16 December 1987
Dear Bill:
I'm writing this letter because of our inability to
connect on the telephone. My schedule is bad, yours I
know is impossible and I empathize with you.
The seminars we plan to do in San Francisco on February 12
- 14, 1988, called "Ethics in America" will be an
extraordinary event. Justice Scalia will be there, along
with Judge Robert Merhige, Floyd Abrams, Jim Neal, Anthony
Lewis and others whom you know and respect.
Bill, I don't need to make a speech to you about how much
your presence `would add to the dialogue about legal ethics
and criminal justice and how much I want you to be a part
of it. I also don't need to tell you that at some point
we have to make final decisions about the participants.
If we can't make it work for you this time, I'll take a
rainch'eck for another seminar at another time. Let me
know.
Ruth and I send our
Fred W~/~riendly
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The Honorable William H. Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, DC 20505
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The Director of Central lntelli~ence
August 31, 1987
Mr. Fred W. Friendly
Director
Columbia University Seminars
on Media and Society
Suite 248
475 Riverside Drive
New York, New .York 10115
Thanks for your letter of August 19th, which I have
received on my return-today from Aspen. Much as I would like
to be with you on the weekend of October 30th, I am pretty much
committed to be present that day at SAC Headquarters and have a
speech for Don Lay in St. Paul on November 1st. This is
particularly disappointing because your subject is-one close to
my heart and I-would like very much to participate.
I'm glad that you and Ruth .could find time to have
breakfast with me and I thoroughly enjoyed the morning's
discussion..
Warmest regards,
Sincerely,
William H. Webster
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475 Riverside Drive
Suite 248
New York, N.Y. 10115
[phone]
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Richard M. Clurman
Chairman
Floyd Abrams
John Seigenthaler
Vice Chairmen
Burton Benjamin
Lester Bernstein
Robert L. Bernstein
Louis D. Boccardi
Thornton Bradshaw
Tyrone Brown
William F. Buckley, Jr.
McGeorge Bundy
John C. Burton
Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Mary Anne Dolan
Osborn Elliott
Harold Evans
Katherine Fanning
Michael G. Gartner
James C. Goodale
Meg Greenfield
Henry A. Grunwald
John Mason Harding
Pamela Hill
Lee Hills
' James Hoge
John Jay Iselin
W. Thomas Johnson
Lewis B. Kaden
Joan Konner
Irving Kristol
David Laventhol
Robert C. Maynard
Edward N. Ney
Michael J. O'Neill
Bruce L. Paisner
Warren H. Phillips
:'Gilbert M. Reich
Gene Roberts
Robert D. Sack
,Herbert Schmertz
living S. Shapiro
Howard Simons
Michael I. Sovern
James D. Squires
Arthur O. Sulzberger
Laurence A. Tisch
Thomas Winship
Fred W. Friendly
Director
Cynthia McFadden
Executive Producer
OLL1IuIBIA ~JNNEIZSITX SEMII~~~1Z
on Media and Society /Graduate School of Journalism
August 19, 1987
First let me tell yoti how much Ruth and I enjoyed our
sunlit breakfast with you .at the Mark Hopkins. It was a
time of conversation among dear friends, and we were
privileged to be able to share your insight into pour new
job and its awesome responsibilities. I'm glad you are
where you are even if your daughter had her small doubts.
On the subject of the seminar on "Ethics in America" which
you-.have urged us to do, and which I want you to attend as
a major participant: it's going to be held in Boston on
the weekend of October 30 - November 1, and the cases we
would :like to have you.. on are the onus on ethics in
government and in journalism. They will both be held on
Sunday, November lst, so if you have a.Friday commitment,
which I think you-said you do have, you could arrive in
Boston on Saturday.
It would mean much to us, Bill, if-you could participate.
Your keen.ability to deal with complex issues has always
added.immeasura'bly to our seminars. We-would not be
discussing intelligence matters or any issue of so
sensitive a nature that it could be a problem to you in
your new .job. We`just want the plain old Judge Webster
whose sense of i'ntegrity.is a national asset. ''~.
Incidentally, I loveyouur line about the "unknown soldiers
of a .democracy .'.'
By the way, Ruth and .I read ".Patriot Game" on the .way back
from San Francisco. It is riveting and I'm sure ,that the
insights into the reasons we haven't had much domestic .
terrorism were matters you found most relevant.
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Please think about my invitation,~Bill, and when .you_get~
back ~om Aspen give .m e. a,ring:
The Honorable Williain.H. Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, DC 2050 5
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