Richard Nixon actually said...
And while, of course, great attention is paid to the efforts that we have been making to work toward solution of these problems, working toward a new dialog with great nations like the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, with which the United States has not had good relations in the past, let us never forget that the fact that we are talking to nations who have been our adversaries does not mean that we have lost our interest in, or our affection for, or our primary interest in our friends.
Context
Remarks to Members of the 14th Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Conference.
05/14/1974