Letter from Linus Pauling to Lyndon B. Johnson. August 26, 1965. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Bank Book Entry: NAS dues.  “2yrs.” $20.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.039, Folder #39.1]
• Check from AHP to Pearl Lang RE: $90.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP September 24, 1965] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.2]
• Check from AHP to S.O. Western RE: $38.46.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP September 24, 1965] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.2]
• Check from LP to National Academy of Sciences RE: $20.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP September 24, 1965] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.2]
• Invoice from The Fund for the Republic, Inc., Accounting Department, to LP RE: Total of $0.10 for postage.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.062, Folder #62.1]
• Letter from Bob White Jr., to LP. RE: Informs him that it took 13 months for him to get No More War! from the New York Public Library. Also had a hard time getting a copy of the War Registers’ League. [Filed under LP Correspondence: N: Correspondence, 1965: Box #289 Folder #289.1]
• Letter from Daniel A. Rose, State University of New York at Buffalo, to LP. RE: Invites him to be a guest on the university television station.  [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1965: Box #1965s Folder #1965s.13]
• Letter from Geula Cohen, Maariv, to LP. RE: Introduces herself and the newspaper. Lists questions to be asked of participants in a round table monthly symposium. Requests that he answer them. [Letter from LP December 23, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: C: Correspondence, 1963-1965: Box #77 Folder #77.3]
• Letter from James G. Foulks, University of British Columbia, to LP. RE: Confirms the arrangements which were discussed over the phone. [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1965: Box #1965s Folder #1965s.14] 
• Letter from LP and AHP, to James Aronson National Guardian. RE: Hopes that he will not continue on the path that he is on. [Filed under LP Correspondence: A: Correspondence, 1962-1965: Box #14 Folder #14.4]
• Letter from LP to Albert V. Baez, UNESCO. RE: Informs him that his experience has not given him much to bear on the problem of teaching in developing countries, but agrees with the statements in the document. [Filed under LP Correspondence: B: Correspondence, 1965-1966: Box #41 Folder #41.1] also [Filed under LP Correspondence: U: Organizational Correspondence (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization): Box #420 Folder #420.2]
• Letter from LP to David Pressman, Roswell Park Memorial Institute. RE: Glad that he got things straightened out with the Graduate Student Association. Informs him of his travel plans. [Filed under LP Correspondence: O: Individual Correspondence (Pressman, David): Box #309 Folder #309.7] 
• Letter from LP to David Pressman, Roswell Park Memorial Institute. RE: Is glad that he got things straightened out with the Graduate Student Association. Informs him of his travel plans. Suggests his talk on anesthesia have the title “A Molecular Theory of General Anesthesia”.  [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1965: Box #1965s Folder #1965s.13]
• Letter from LP to Frank Catchpool, University of California. RE: Discusses the manuscript that is to be published in Germany in the November issue of Folia Humanistica. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Catchpool, John Francis, 1959-1994: Box #62 Folder #62.7] 
• Letter from LP to Frank Toole. RE: Looks forward to seeing them in November or December. Suggests that they call a week ahead. [Letter from Toole August 23, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: T: Individual Correspondence (Toole, Frank J.): Box #407 Folder #407.8] 
• Letter from LP to M. S. Arnoni. RE: Gives him permission to prepare reprints of the Appeal by Recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. [Filed under LP Correspondence: A: Individual Correspondence: Box #6 Folder #6.16] 
• Letter from LP to Martin Weener. RE: Is pleased that his paintings will be exhibited in Oxford. Informs him that he cannot help him find other sponsors. [Letter from Weener July 29, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: W: Correspondence, 1965: Box # 446 Folder #446.3]
• Letter from LP to May G. Wilt. RE: Apologizes that he did not answer her letter. Hopes she will continue the fight. Sends her a copy of his address at Pacem in Terris. [Letter from Wilt August 14, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: W: Correspondence, 1965: Box # 446 Folder #446.3] 
• Letter from LP to President Lyndon B. Johnson RE: Asks if the U.S. is willing to negotiate with all of the governments involved in the Vietnam war including the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. [Filed under LP Peace: Box #6.005, Folder #5.1]
• Letter from LP to President Lyndon B. Johnson, The White House. [Filed under LP Correspondence: J: Individual Correspondence (Johnson, Lyndon B): Box #190 Folder #190.1] 

  Linus Pauling

  August 26, 1965

  President Lyndon B. Johnson

  The White House

  Washington, D. C.

  Dear Mr. President:

  I am writing to ask a question raised by the letter of 18 August 1965 sent to me by the Under Secretary of State, George W. Ball, at your request.

  In this letter Mr. Ball writes that "The United States Government has made amply clear its willingness to participate in a meeting ‘to seek a political settlement' as you propose.", and that "We have given our support to every one of the many efforts to open the way to unconditional negotiation. We give the same support to your appeal."

  An important part of the Appeal by Recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize is that it is an appeal to all the governments and parties concerned in the war in Vietnam to take immediate action to achieve a cease-fire and a negotiated settlement of this tragic conflict.

  My fellow recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize and I are convinced that it is essential that all the governments and parties concerned in the war be involved in the effort to achieve a cease-fire and a political settlement. One of the parties most deeply concerned is the National Liberation front of South Vietnam.

  I have found that there is a rather general belief that the United States Government is not willing to participate in a meeting involving the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. The possibility that this belief is correct is supported by the last paragraph in the letter sent to me by Under Secretary Ball, which reads as follows: "We give the same support to your appeal. We hope it may help to persuade the government in Hanoi and the government in Peking that this conflict should be moved to the conference table."

  I am accordingly writing to ask you the following question: Does the United States Government refuse to negotiate with all of the governments and parties concerned in the war in Vietnam, including the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, or is the Government of the United States willing to negotiate with all of the governments and parties concerned in this tragic conflict?

  I shall be grateful to you for the answer to this question, which seems to me to be of the utmost importance.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  Copy: Under Secretary of State George W. Ball

• Letter from LP to R. L. Lehman, Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology. RE: Does not understand the photographs that were sent with his letter. Thinks Lehman may have misunderstood Linnett’s proposals. [Letter from Lehman July 30, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: L: Correspondence (1964-1966): Box #233 Folder #233.2]
• Letter from LP to US Under Secretary of State George W. Ball. RE: Encloses a copy of a letter to President Johnson asking for clarification of one point in his letter of August 18, 1965. [Filed under LP Correspondence: J: Individual Correspondence (Johnson, Lyndon B): Box #190 Folder #190.1] 
• Letter from LP to Under Secretary of State George W. Ball RE: Encloses a copy of the letter LP sent to the President in response to Ball's letter. [Filed under LP Peace: Box #6.005, Folder #5.1]
• Letter from LP to Vern Sharum. RE: Sends him a copy of his Nobel Lecture. [Letter from Sharum August 13, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: S: Correspondence (1965): Box #383 Folder #383.2] 
• Letter from Norman R. Lazarus, Chairman, Graduate Student Convocation, SUNY at Buffalo, to LP RE: details of LP and AHP’s schedule while at SUNY Buffalo on September 13, 1965 [Filed under LP Travel, Box #1.004, Folder 4.1] also [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1965: Box #1965s Folder #1965s.13]
• Letter from William H. Nims to LP RE: Thanks LP for sending narrative and financial reports on his activities under the Ford Foundation grant. [Letter from LP to Nims August 16, 1965] [Filed under LP Science: (Ford Foundation, 1949-1972), Box #14.012, Folder #12.1] 
• Receipt from First Western Bank to LP and AHP RE: “In-Mail Deposit Receipt.”  $1,330.34.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP September 24, 1965] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.2]
• Receipt from First Western Bank to LP and AHP RE: “Temporary Receipt In-Mail Deposit.” $1,330.34.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.039, Folder #39.1]
• Receipt from Ott’s to LP RE: Total of $21.83. [Statement from Ott’s September 19, 1965] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.061, Folder #61.2] 
• Receipt from Ott’s to LP RE: Total of $41.93. [Statement from Ott’s September 19, 1965] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.061, Folder #61.2] 
• Research Notebook of LP RE: Autobiographical entry, p. 236. [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: 25R] 
• Statement from Brewer Lighting to LP RE: Total of 9.48. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.062, Folder #62.1]
• Statement from Ott's to LP RE: $22.70 [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.062, Folder #62.1]
• Statement from Ott's to LP RE: Total of $41.93. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.062, Folder #62.1]