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    "ocrText": "File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nMEMORANDUM\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSECRET/SENSITIVE\nMEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION\nPARTICIPANTS:\nPresident Ford\nGyula Szeker, Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary\nElliot Richardson, Secretary of Commerce\nBrent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President for\nNational Security Affairs\nAmb. Ferenc Esztergalyos, Hungarian Ambassador\nDATE AND TIME:\nTuesday, May 4, 1976\n11:58-12:15 p.m.\nPLACE:\nThe Oval Office\nPresident: I am very pleased you were able to accept Secretary Morton's\ninvitation to visit. Is this your first visit to this country?\nSzeker: Yes, it is.\nPresident: How long will you be here?\nSzeker: One week. We want to visit New York and Chicago. My heart\nis in industry, so I hope to see some of your industrial plants.\nNSC MEMO, GUIDELINES, shk 3/12/04\nPresident: You will see much industry if you go to the Detroit area.\nSzeker: This matter is connected with the fact that we would like to\nE.O. 12958, SEC. 3.5\nNARA, DATE 1/1/04\nadvance in the area of industrial cooperation. I think probably we can't\nbe satisfied with the present level. We are a small country but our\nshare of trade with the US is only 1%. Before the war it used to be 5%.\nWe are working toward an increase.\nDECLASSIFIED\nPresident: I know the trade has been small, even though there has been\nsome increase.\nSzeker: We have started on this road. We cooperate on tractor production\nwith Steiger and others. Agricultural cooperation is doing well. Secretary\nButz visited Hungary last fall. There are a large number of possibilities\nBY\nhere.\nCLASSIFIED BY Henry A. Kissinger\nSECRET/SENSITIVE\nEXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION\nSCHEDULE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652\nEXEMPTION CATEGORY 5 (B) (1, 3)\nAUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED ON Imp. to det.\nSECRET/SENSITIVE\n-2-\nWe feel also on the level of state relations and others, we should\nraise relations to a higher level.\nI would like to raise two other points, if I may: We are aware of\nyour great efforts to provide MFN. We would like very much to have\nit prevail.\nPresident: We were very disappointed with the legislation which\npassed in 1974. We will have to get the legislation changed, but I\ndon't think Congress will be in the mind to do it in 1976.\nOne point I would like to make -- I would hope we could work out\nbroader cooperation in the area of scientific and cultural affairs\nbetween us.\nSzeker: We very much hope that if not in '76, then in '77 the modifi-\ncation of the Act will take place.\nPresident: We will be doing our best to change the law so we can\nexpand cooperation with countries like Hungary.\nSzeker: One final problem. Hungary has a 1000-year history. The\nHungarian people are sensitively affected by the fact that the Hungarian\nCrown is in the United States. The Hungarian people have suffered\nmuch in many wars. Almost all our national treasures have been\ndestroyed. We are on the path of marching armies and we have almost\nno relics of the 11th and 12th centuries. We have little earlier than\nthe 15th and 16th centuries. The return of the Crown jewels would\nprovoke a very positive response in the Hungarian people and I would\nask you to find a way to get the Crown back to the people.\nPresident: We understand your concern. We will look at the situation\nand see what can be done. I am not in a position to say yes at this time.\nWe understand how important this is to your cultural heritage. I will\nlook at the situation and communicate through the proper channels.\nYou are meeting with Secretaries Simon and Richardson today and you\nhave met Secretary Butz already. They are very able men and we hope\nthrough them we can expand this relationship.\nSzeker: Thank you very much.\nSEGRET/SENSITIVE\nP/O.P.M. Szelar/Micharder\n4 thery 76\nP I every pleased you well whe to a copt\nwortner inventor to val. & this\nyour (\nS yes it is\nP How long will you be here\nS Ow work. W wonth instat uy Chinap\nWe mant is in unitsty No = hype to\nshe sorvey your industrial plants\nP you will see much endresty T you\nyou Stroit area\nS Teris maths is connected w/ ya t are\nwould liker alvern in chea of\nundres eerp- I think providely are\nevent be satio. w/present level use\nare a several country but one than\nof coole wf of is only 1% Byne was\nit used to be 520 we and werking\ntoward an increase\nP shum C twents has hern terrall, when\nthe the has been nine K.\nS Gl home started an this road. we loop\non tracture priel. as/ Sterger of who agri\nup is dring will- Berty unsited Cost\nfall- There are a large # if possibilities\nhere.\n& o ths use pul also mc C. level of , Eth within\nwe should recise which be higher\nlined.\nThe orther possible 3 & are amount of\nyour great efforts to privide MFN we\nwould hh to home it previd\nP. Gilmen every disap. as/c ley insult\nDECLASSIFIED\nE.O. 12958, SEC. 3.5\nNSC MEMO, 11/24/98, STATE DEPT. GUIDELINES state Inview3/12/04\nGERALD\nBY\nwh\nNADE 2/1/04\npresed 7 I We w e will have to get c J\nbyes hongle but I dont think cong anil\nbe in C mord to doet in 16\nP Own 1 I wald What he- I\nend sope near and curch ant known\ncop in c area of sintific &\ncultural bet ero.\nS CN very will hope thant if if urt in 76, an\nin 77 C mostly. of e act will takeplace\nP We will be donny on heat to though\nC las so we can x pard way w/ emithirs\nthe Hungay\nS Own find problem. hr a\n/ 000 ep have The Hangarism pugb\nsee senting offected be fat Hungasism\nis inc US. The Hydrican\nproper have appearl wh in transing\nwors. wat\nhard been distomy we an one your\nof morehing armils on of W have about\nno rebis NAME of \" 12th Cent - with\nearlier them IT -16 Cent. Return f r .\nGroun joineds world provohed my provine\nresponsion Hung people +\nthe you to prid or any to get - come\nbe the to C project\nP\ntue your hre\nwill bala at - sit a see what cen\nbe dru- J ent in a porting to any\nyes at this this we understand\nhas this is & your\nInternal hrutonys livell harbat\n&\nFORD\nGERALD\nUS\nset, Chrinels. # commination then group\nJm are maty w/ Shim &\ntelm + Beatz already They an they\nable when we hope than them\nand come k pond this watimoting\nS Thank you very much"
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