Richard Nixon actually said...
I ask all of you to raise your glasses to a nation and a people with whom the United States has had the longest uninterrupted friendship--200 years---of any nation in the world, and to a leader who has become a giant among men because he had courage, because he had vision, and because he had the wisdom that the world now seeks to solve its difficult problems: President de Gaulle.
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Toasts of the President and President de Gaulle at a Dinner at the Elysee Palace in Paris
02/27/1969