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    "ocrText": "File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation\nCollection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nMEMORANDUM\nScaveroft file\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nCONFIDENTIAL\nMEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION\nPARTICIPANTS:\nPresident Nixon\nAshraf Ghorbal, Ambassador of Egypt\nBrent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to the President\nfor National Security Affairs\nDATE & TIME:\nApril 19, 1974\n12:10 p.m.\nPLACE:\nThe Oval Office; Rose Garden\nThe White House\nThe President: These are your credentials, Mr. Ambassador?\nGhorbal: These are my credentials, Mr. President, and it is a great\nhonor for my country to present them to you today.\nThe President: Here is my response, Mr. Ambassador, and I want\nNSC MEMO, 11/24/98, STATE DEPT. GUIDELINES 3/8/04\nState Periew\nyou to know and I want you to inform President Sadat that this is a day\nI have looked forward to from the time I have entered this office.\nI have felt that it was a great tragedy for both our countries that our\nrelations did not exist, due to events that we are all aware of in the\nE.O. 12958, SEC. 3.5\nNARA DATE 8/5/04\nsixties. I realize, too, that we are entering a period that is vitally\nimportant in terms of building not just a temporary but a permanent\npeace in the Middle East, which will mean that your people will move\nforward in peace rather than to have the plague of war, which has\nDECLASSIFIED\nplagued so many of the countries there over and over again.\nAnd I want to say personally that one of the reasons I have welcomed\nthe opportunity to receive your credentials is that in 1963, at a time\nwhen we did have relations, which was before the June war, my wife and\nI visited Egypt with our two daughters, and we shall never forget not only\nthe great historical monuments which go back further than any in the\nBY\nworld, but we will never forget the friendship. We look forward some\nday to coming again,\nCLASSIFIED BY HENRY A. KISSINGER\nEXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION\nSCHEDULE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652\nEXEMPTION CATEGORY 5 (b) (3)\nCONFIDENTIAL\nAUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED ON Imp. to Det.\nCONFIDENTIAL\n- 2 -\nGhorbal: Mr. President, I am overwhelmed. I am deeply honored.\nI am sure I grace everyone in Egypt when I say this is equally a great\nday for each of us, for we are today ending the estrangement and looking\nahead to a rapprochement of cooperation and good friendship.\nThe people of Egypt remembered very well and remember very well the\nvisit of you, Mr. President, and Mrs. Nixon. Sixty-three has been long\nback. It is high time we welcome you back, Mr. President, and we\nlook forward to your visiting Egypt very soon. I know that President\nSadat and Mrs. Sadat are anxious -- so are the people of Egypt -- to\nwelcome you back.\nYou have done admirably in bringing about the beginning, and we hope\nthe continuing process of establishing permanent peace in the Middle\nEast. We salute your efforts. We want this cooperation continuously,\nnot only after peace is achieved, but even beyond.\nYou have done tremendously. We look forward to your doing tremendously\nand I want to thank you, Mr. President.\nThe President: Mr. Ambassador, in concluding, you have spoken of\nwhat we have done. Let me say that I should put it in the plural, together\nour two nations have worked out difficult problems in these past months\ninvolving, of course, the disengagement.\nAnd it is together, economically and other ways, that we can move forward\nfor not only progress for your country, but for all of your neighbors, which\nI know President Sadat wants.\nThank you. [The press and photographers left.\nAs the General told you, we won't have a substantive meeting today but\nas we get closer to my trip, we will have you in. We know of the role\nyou played in the reestablishment of our relations. We have exchanged\npieces of paper; the paper means nothing without the commitment behind\nit. A paper can be torn up. My official and personal commitment is to\nwork toward permanent peace in the Middle East. Egypt is a great people,\nthough poor in natural resources. A great people like that must have\nrelations with a country like us.\nGhorbal: I am overwhelmed with honor. I look forward to a substantive\nmeeting whenever you wish.\nCONFIDENTIAL\nCONFIDENTIAL\n- 3 -\nThe President: Right now we have a problem in Lebanon, and a Syrian\nproblem. Let's let them work along for a time.\n[The President escorted Ambassador Ghorbal out to the Rose Garden.\n]\nThe President: This is the Rose Garden. It is a beautiful time of year\nwith the flowers and rose bushes in bloom. My daughter was married\nright over here.\nGhorbal: In my country rain is a good omen, so this is an auspicious day.\nCONFIDENTIAL\n2\nPres, Ghobal\n19 april 74\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nP. 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