Richard Nixon actually said...

We know that your leadership will be critical in determining that we can find a way to avoid any kind of eruption which could lead to breaking the peace in that part of the world, which all of us look upon today as potentially dangerous.

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Toasts of the President and the Shah of Iran

07/23/1973

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