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File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SEGRET/NODIS/XGDS
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
President Ford
Ambassador Henry Catto, Chief of Protocol
Setondji Thomas Boya, Appointed Ambassador
of the People's Republic of Benin (formerly
the Republic of Dahomey)
William E. Schaufele, Jr., Assistant Secretary
of State for African Affairs
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
DATE AND TIME:
Friday, January 23, 1976
2:30 - 3:05 p.m.
PLACE:
The Oval Office
SUBJECT:
Presentation of Credentials
BERALD
[The press was admitted for photos. ]
President: Welcome to the United States. You will be very busy, with
your UN job in addition to your ambassadorial responsibility.
Boya: We are a poor country and we would appreciate your assistance.
President: You will be President of the Security Council in March,
I think.
is try my best.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12958, SEC. 3.5
NSC MEMO, 11/24/98, STATE DEPT. GUIDELINES
NARA DATE 6/7/04
Boya: Yes, I hope I am up to these heavy responsibilities. All I can do
[The press leaves.
President: We welcome you here and hope to improve our relations. We
unfortunately have had some differences, but I hope we can resolve them.
CLASSIFIED BY BRENT SCOWCROFT
BY
EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION
SEGRET/NODIS/XGDS
SCHEDULE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652
EXEMPTION CATEGORY 5 (b) (1,3)
AUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED ON Imp. to det,
SEGRET/NODIS/XGDS
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Boya: We hope through discussion to be able to resolve them.
President: Have you been to the United States before?
Boya: No, never. I have been to Great Britain and France, but not to
the United States.
President: I hope you will have a chance, when you are here, to see
much of our country.
Boya: I am impressed with what I have seen. The tall buildings and
many people in the New York
President: It is a wonderful city but I wouldn't want to live there! The
variety of the country is what I find interesting.
Boya: I hear Washington is very pretty in the Spring, with all the flowers.
President: Your country is entirely tropical?
Boya: Yes. We have only two seasons -- - rainy and dry.
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