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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Katzenbach, Nicholas de Belleville, 1922-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1964; 1967

Volume: 3 item(s); 3 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Katzenbach, Nicholas de Belleville".

Biography

Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach was United States Undersecretary of State under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He had previously served as Attorney General. Merton writes in plea for the civilian victims of the Vietnam War that the United States make a humanitarian gesture to provide medical relief to the civilian population in North Vietnam.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1964/11/12? TLS[x]from Smiley, GlennWe, the national staff of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, must call into question the wisdom,  [correspondence retrieved from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made by journalist Robert G. Grip of WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama during the mid-1980's]
 1967/03/07 (#01)TL[c]from MertonI address this letter to you with diffidence and yet with some hope that you will accept it as   
 1967/03/07 (#02)TL[x]from MertonI address this letter to you with diffidence and yet with some hope you will accept it as  [correspondence retrieved from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made by journalist Robert G. Grip of WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama during the mid-1980's]
        

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