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The original documents are located in Box 2, folder "10/21/74 - Mexico Visit Departure
Statement" of the President's Speeches and Statements: Reading Copies at the Gerald R.
Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 2 of President's Speeches and Statements: Reading Copies at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
MEXICO VISIT
DEPARTURE STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT FORD
MONDAY;, OCTOBER 21, 1974
SERVICE R. FORD
- I -
MR. PRESIDENT, IT HAS INDEED BEEN A PLEASURE FOR ME TO HAVE
HAD THIS OPPORTUNITY, EARLY IN MY ADMINISTRATION, TO MEET WITH YOU
AND YOUR DISTINGUISHED DELEGATION, TO HAVE VISITED NOGALES (NO-GAL-ES)
AND MAGDALENA de KINO (MAGDA-LENA DAY KEENO) IN YOUR GREAT NATION, AND
TO HAVE HAD THE HONOR TO OFFER YOU OUR HOSPITALITY IN TUBAC (TOO-BACK).
- 2 -
THE TIME HAS BEEN ALL TOO SHORT. BUT WHAT WE HAVE SHARED TOGETHER
HAS BEEN MOST VALUABLE TO ME:
-- IT PROVIDED A WELCOME OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW YOU
PERSONALLY, TO BE ABLE TO ESTABLISH A REAL FRIENDSHIP WITH THE
PRESIDENT OF OUR GREAT FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR TO THE SOUTH;
- 3 -
-- IT PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY TO ESTABLISH AT
FIRST-HAND A DIALOGUE WHICH IS so IMPORTANT FOR THE UNDERSTANDING
AND COOPERATION OF OUR PEOPLES AND GOVERNMENTS;
- 4 -
-- IT PROVIDED A CHANCE TO HEAR YOUR POINTS OF VIEW
ON MATTERS OF MUTUAL CONCERN TO OUR TWO COUNTRIES AND TO EXPRESS
MY VIEWPOINT ON THESE MATTERS TO YOU.
- 5 -
TO ME, THE VALUE OF THE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WE HAVE
INITIATED TODAY IS EQUAL TO THE SUBSTANTIVE DISCUSSIONS WE HAVE HELD.
I AM CONFIDENT THAT OUR MEETING WILL BE ONLY THE BEGINNING OF A CLOSE
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP - -- AN IMPORTANT LINK IN THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
WHICH UNITES OUR TWO COUNTRIES.
- 6 -
MR. PRESIDENT, DURING MY SHORT VISIT TO YOUR SIDE OF THE
BORDER THIS MORNING, YOU AND THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO MADE ME FEEL AT
HOME. I ASSURE YOU THAT ON THIS SIDE OF THE BORDER, YOU ARE ALSO
IN YOUR HOME, AND I HOPE THAT YOU FELT THIS WAY.
- 7 -
AS I TAKE LEAVE OF YOU AND WISH YOU A SAFE AND PLEASANT
RETURN JOURNEY, MR. PRESIDENT, I WILL NOT SAY GOODBYE BUT RATHER,
FOLLOWING THE TRADITION OF YOUR COUNTRY, I WILL SAY
"HASTA LUEGO" (ASTA-LOO-WAGO). I KNOW THAT THERE WILL BE OTHER
OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FUTURE TO MEET AND DISCUSS VITAL QUESTIONS OF
INTEREST TO BOTH OF OUR COUNTRIES.
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