Richard Nixon actually said...

For the 20 years that I have known you, Your Majesty, you have worked for the progress of your own people with remarkable results, and you have also worked for peace and stability in not only your part of the world but in all the world.

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Toasts of the President and the Shah of Iran

07/23/1973

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