LETTER TO R. GORDON HOXIE FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R001704340083-5
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: August 3, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington. D. C. 20505
Dear Gordon,
3 August 1985
I hate to do this but I have to ask you to
excuse me from participation in the Center's
program in Grand Rapids in November. Thank
goodness it's not too late to bow out. I had
not realized that there would be heavy foreign
attendance but I received this note from our
Public Affairs Director. I attach a copy so you
will understand and ask you to destroy it when
you have read it.
Best regards.
Yours,
illiam J. Case
y
,Dr. R. Gordon Hoxie
President
Center for the Study of the Presidency
208 East 75th Street
New York, New York 10021
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George V. Lauder
Director, Public Affairs
31 July 1985
FYI. As you will recall you have accepted an
invitation to speak in Grand Rapids, Michigan on
Saturday, 2 November, to the Center for the Study of
the Presidency. Approximately 750 attendees are
expected. I think you should be aware the Center is
planning to invite a number of foreigners to attend
and to make the meeting, and its speeches, a media
event.
Representatives from Latin America, including
professional men, business leaders, editors and
publishers who are the leaders of political parties
in their countries, are being invited by USIA to
attend this conference. Canadian parliamentary
interns will also be present.
The above mentioned foreign nationals will be
present for your address, and TV, radio and press
coverage of all the speakers is planned. While we
have asked that radio and TV be excluded from your
speech as is customary, it may be impossible this
time around to-ensure no TV and radio coverage.
You will be breaking new ground during your
tenure as DCI by publicly addressing a group to
include foreign nationals such these and by what may
be live TV and radio coverage of your speech. There
probably isn't much we can do about it all short of
cancelling your address, but I thought you'd like to
know now what's coming up rathey than hearing it
later on.
George Lauder
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CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PRESIDENCY
208 EAST 75TH STREET - NEW YORK, N.Y. 10021 - 212-249-1200
Executive Registry
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PUBLIC AFFAIR omCE
July 1, 1985
Hon. William J. Casey
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Thank you for your call today accepting the Center's invitation to
participate in the Center's 16th Annual Leadership Conference. As I
advised this is convening at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel
in Grand Rapids, Michigan the weekend of November 1-3, 1985, with
President Ford as the primary host.
The theme "Command Decision And The Presidency" is taken from the
volume by that name. You may recall President Ford had written the
Foreword for it and you, yourself wrote a generous commentary for the
book jacket.
Bill, we hope you will be with us as much as your busy schedule
permits, beginning with the Friday evening, November 1st reception and
dinner commencing at 6:30 p.m. We would like you to join President Ford
on the dais that evening. Should your schedule permit we would like to
have you address the conference the following evening, Saturday, November 2nd,
again following a reception and dinner commencing at 6:30 p.m.
In the interim, kindly send us your biographical sketch and photograph,
the latter preferably 8x10. For you support for the Center and for the
conference we are most grateful, believe me. Best wishes to you and to
your family.
Sincerely yours,
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