LETTER TO MR. LOEB FROM GEORGE BUSH

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2004
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• Publication Date: May 26, 1976
• Content Type: LETTER

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delighted '1?aaJ' k you for your letter of `M ry 24th. I'm
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remarks at r:7. adge useful in putting together his
flay 19th editorial.
I also appreciate your words of support for
the important worn of this Agency. I a=;i convinced
that the ~~merican people strongly support the
aaission of the Central Intelligence ency. I
cam. assure you that this institution has not been
devastated by recent publicity, and I an determined
to do what I can to, see that our country continues
to have an antelligeuce cap,-ability second to none.
Thanks for writing.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Gaorgu Bush
George Bush
Mr. William Loeb
President and Publisher
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Who Cares About Freedom?
Speaking last Sunday at the eleventh Com-
mencement exercise of Franklin Pierce College in
Rindge. Central Intelligence Agency Director
George Push raised the most important issue of
our times, one to which every student, parent.
faculty member and guest who heard him should
give top priority it. his. thinking. (A strikingly
similar theme, was sounded by former United
Nations Ambassador Daniel Patrick Aloynihan in
his commencement address last Sunday at St..
-~nselm's College).
"All througk our history," bush pointed out,
we have had a commitment to freedom," but
now, both our friends and foes all over the world
are questioning the commitment of the United
States to stop communism and to defend liberty
and are wondering if that commitment is strong
enough to make this country willing to sacrifice
,for its goals.
TIIE ANSWER, IVE FEAR, IS THAT NOT
ONLY IS AMERICA NO LONGER WILLING TO
SACRIFICE FOR FREEDOM, PUT ALSO THAT
OUR CURRENT LEAL)ERSHII' HAS DECIDED
TO ACCOMMODATE THE ENEMIES OF FREE-
DOM AROUND THE WORLD.
In a recent column, former U.S. Ambassador to
Switzerland Henry J. Taylor reflects on Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger's visits with and prom-
ises ref aid to leaders of African "nations" which
prattle about democracy, but whose sole interest
is power.
In Kenya, his host was.the former murderous
Mau Mau leader, President .lomo:Kenyatta, who-
has "killed off his opponents with all the eclat of
a Borg is at a?feast," and for whore "no glittering
luxury is today too good."
In Zaire, Kissinger saw dictator Mobutu Sese
Aeko, a "fake soothsaver.'with his rheumy meta-
physics and huckster's magic," a. "carny quack
and total swine" who "lives a champagne life
while Zaire's impoverished people are tog
diseased to work at a trade and too miserable to
have hope."
Columnist Taylor also cites "Field Marshal" hit
Amin, President of Uganda. who is notorious for
blasting the United States, and Marien Ngouahi,
President of the Brazzaville Congo -- bu_h of
whom are ruthless killers who care not a whit for
their enslaved people.
Commenting on the lunacy of proposing assis-
tance to countries that lack :'the essential under-
pinnings for an equivalent of the Marshall Plan
that saved Europe." Taylor points out that the
current total U.S. government debt and that of
every segment of our society has increased to
more than three trillion - yes, trillion -- dollars!
There is a direct correlation, we suggest, be-
tween this nuzzling up to African dictators and
the feeling of the new isolationists that the United
States must accommodate itself to communism,
its military power, the massive populations under
its control, the persuasiveness of Marxist ideology
to the masses of mankind.
The view that there is nothing extraordinarily
wrong with communism as such, which holds also
that the Soviet Union is not significantly worse
than the United States, has become a major
concern to increasing numbers of political com-
mentators. For example, consider the question
posed by CIA Director Bush before the backdrop
of the perceptive observations offered by Com-
mentary editor Norman Podhoretz in the April
issue of the American Jewish Committee's month-
iv publication:
"What we see in this newly tolerant, aria
even benevolent, attitude toward communism
is the slow erosion of our own sense of -
political value in response to the Communist
challenge - an accommodation in the sphere
of ideas to match the accommodation we -
have been making in. the sphere of power. Our
own political culture has always held tip
liberty as the highest political valve, while the
political culture of communism has always
scoffed at and denigrated liberty as a bour-
geois delusion.
"Therefore, our unwillingness or inability to
condemn their.crimes against political liberty
- which they of course do not regard as
crimes at all - can t'airly be described as a.
symptom of the surrender of our political eui.?
ture to theirs."
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Bill Lee, Purdue honored
CIA director spears
to Pierce grads
- By JAMES McPARLAND
RINDGE, N.H.--Central Intelligence Agency Director
George H. W. Bush said yesterday he was worried "about -
the credibility and the commitment of our country as seen
through the eyes of foreign countries-friend and foe alike."
Speaking At Franklin Pierce College commencement
exercises, Bush, former U.S. Ambassador' to the United
Nations, said many countries, including China, "are looking
at its and trying to decide where we are at". after 200 yearrs
of freedom of speech, religion and enterprise,
CHINA IS asking itself if the USA is committed after
200 years of democracy or whatever one calls our magnifi-
cent system," stated Bush, a former U.S. Envoy to China.
"Many other countries are asking the same questions.
These are questions all of us should ask."
Bush, who received an honorary doctor of laws degree
at the commencement, noted that both China and the Soviet
Union are committed to world socialism. Cuba and Russia
displayed credibility- in Angola while the USA did not, he
said. .
"The administrationmade a commitment to the Roberto
Savimbia factions in Angola, much like Cuba and Russia
made a commitment to the.MPLA in Angola," the former,
Texas congressman. asserted.
"Our commitment proved to be a commitment without`
credibility.. Their's was credible. Angola hurt us some in
Africa but it hurt elsewhere, too. -t
"JAPAN, A.jillion miles away from -Angola, : wonders:
whether we'll stand firm. - China, concerned about Soviet:
troops on its northern border, also wonders,.;.
"Our Asian allies in Southeast Asia say we didn't keep
that commitment (Angola) and will we keep a commitment
to help them stay free, Our NATO allies talk about isola-
tion and withdrawal.
"It is a worldwide problem,"! stressed Bush..
Bush said he was not suggesting this country was dedi-
cated to intervention, "nor am I suggesting we must export
our system to other countries. --
"I am saying we have obligations to countries that want
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"WE ARE A world power and we properly have world-
wide obligations."
Franklin Pierce College, a four-year liberal arts school,
also awarded honorary degrees to humanitarian Roy Nie-
man, Frank Purdue, the chicken king, C. Robertson Trow-
bridge, publisher of Yankee Magazine and the Old Farmer's
Almanac, and Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee. The latter was not
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