The President's News Conference
09/27/1950
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I sincerely hope that our mutual interests and our friendship will continue in the future, as it has in the past.
It was the great Persian Empire that gave us the fundamentals of our laws and our constitution today.
The traditional friendship which bound us together during those troubled times has grown even stronger in the years since the war.
I am happy to welcome you to the United States on this, your first visit here.