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THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN K The President's Toast Dinner for Latin American and Caribbean Foreign Ministers April 17, 1974 I believe I am the first President of the United States ever to have visited all of the nations of Latin America before entering this office. I can assure you tonight that those travels are a good measure of the affection and esteem which Mrs. Nixon and I continue to feel for the neighbors in the Americas. During these past 30 years, we have heard an enormous amount of rhetoric about the relationships between our countries. There have been almost as many slogans as conferences, and too often, both have been quickly filed away and forgotten. Now, in the past six months, the United States has proposed a new approach, "a new dialogue." II It was