Diplomacy

We want peace to return.

I bid you and your party, on behalf of the American people, a hearty welcome to the United States of America.

To preserve the peace, we must be tough-minded and persistent in dealing with our adversaries.

I have spent most of my time in the last 2 years working for peace.

The peace that exists today is directly related to our collective hard work skillful diplomacy, and I am very, very proud of what we have accomplished.

We are happy that you and your wife will be able to visit not only Washington but a number of other cities in our country.

It would, for example, strike from the President's hand a wide range of important peace-keeping tools by eliminating his ability to exercise quiet diplomacy backed by subtle shifts in our military deployments.

The United States is making every effort to bring this conflict to a very swift and honorable conclusion, measured in days not weeks.

Communication between peoples, I very sincerely believe having taken some role in opening communications with other nations in the world over the past 4 1/2 years, I believe that as we increase communication between peoples at all levels…

For the first time in 12 years the United States, at the 'time these awards are being made, is at peace with every nation in the world, and that is symbolized, it seems to me, and brought home by the fact that the 11 award winners are…

We look forward to our talks, to get your judgment as to how all nations can contribute to the goal of not simply an end to the fighting which is going on now but to building a new structure of peace in the Mideast.

In other words, we have in our company tonight--and I wish all of you could know him as I have known him, as my wife has known him--a world statesman of the first rank,

And after she was able to take a trip to Africa, which I have been wanting to take and I, incidentally, Dr. Kissinger, intend to take before my term of office is finished--the first American President ever to visit Africa--

Mr. President, I say that we give you a very special welcome today to our country because of your official position.

And so in presenting him to you, I present a man who represents his own country with great distinction,

Mrs. Nixon came back with very warm feelings for all the countries she had visited, but she had a very special feeling about Ivory Coast, and its President and its First Lady.

Dr. Kissinger and his colleagues have been very busy.

His contribution to international peace and understanding was felt far beyond our Nation's borders through his selfless work with newspapers of other countries.