Dear Mr. Chairman: I much appreciated your letter of November sixth and share your thought that your meeting with the President of France should be useful in increasing the possibilities for future settlement of outstanding international problems.1 You will thus have had the opportunity for direct discussion with the three other Heads of Government who will participate with you in the forthcoming Summit meeting, which possibly compensates for any delay it occasions in that meeting as we had envisaged it at Camp David.2 Possibly the meeting could be arranged on a date soon after your visit to France. I shall discuss this with President de Gaulle and Prime Minister Macmillan when I meet with them in Paris next month.3
Since other events are also being planned, I am anxious to begin to think in more concrete terms about the date and arrangements for my return of your visit to the United States. I have reviewed my schedule and, having in mind your suggestion with respect to the timing of my visit, i.e., May or June, I would now plan to leave this country on the night of June 9 to stay a week to ten days in your country.
I am also tentatively thinking of a two-day visit to Tokyo following my stay in the Soviet Union. This would be in response to an invitation I have received to visit Japan during the early part of June in connection with centennial observations of Japanese-American diplomatic relations.4
It would be most convenient if I could proceed to Japan direct from the Soviet Union and thus return to the United States via the Pacific. Perhaps I could visit some of the points of interest in the central and eastern parts of your country, continuing on to Japan and home.
This would, of course, involve the travel of the party accompanying me and our aircraft across the Soviet Union, something that I would suggest only if it would present no problem from your point of view.
I should be grateful for your thoughts on these matters.5 With greetings and best wishes to you and your family, Sincerely
