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Suggestions for Toast at Dinner
For President Park of Korea
The first time I met President Park, he was an officer
in the Korean Army, and I was Vice President of the United
States. The second time I met him, he had become Chief of
State, but meanwhile, I had become a private citizen. Now, on
this occasion, we come together as Presidents of our countries.
I can assure you that the same sense of common purpose and shared
endeavor which our countries and our governments have experienced
for so many years also characterizes our conversations during
this visit.
President Park noted on a previous visit that every time
he comes to the United States, he comes from a "different" Korea.
And the point he makes is an important one. For few nations on
earth have changed as dramatically as Korea has changed during
the past several years. The people of your country, Mr. President,
have produced this rate of change, because they have held on to a
strong sense of national pride and identity through all vicissitudes,
despite the invasions and the captivities to which they were sub-
jected over the centuries. Clearly, yours is a proud and deter-
mined people. It has come through a great deal, and it has much
to be proud of.
Hand in hand with economic revival has come a new inter-
national role for Korea. "The time has come, President Park
declared a few years ago, "for us to move into international
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