Richard Nixon actually said...

Japan is a great Pacific power. It is now a great world power.

It is essential that Japan also participate and contribute, not as a subsidiary partner, but as an equal partner.

I remember on the visits of your predecessors whom I have welcomed here, we have often spoken of the fact that Japanese-American friendship ...

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