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THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN daf (DG/NSC) June 6, 1974 SUGGESTED NSC TOAST MATERIALS: LUNCHEON FOR PRINCE FAHD OF SAUDI ARABIA (JUNE 6, 1974) Your Royal Highness: We are pleased and honored to welcome you on the occasion of your third visit to Washington during this Administration. You will always be welcome in this home, and we look forward to frequent exhanges between the US and Saudi leadership as we broaden our areas of cooperation. The friendship between America and Saudi Arabia is of long- standing and its roots are deep -- nurtured not only by the warmth of the ties between our people but also by the potential benefits to be enjoyed through expanded exchanges between us. We can be proud of the progress we are making toward this goal. * Our friendship with Saudi Arabia, building upon a rich past, holds even greater promise for the future. I know that in your t alks with Secretary of State Kissinger and othe r members of my cabinet (Schlesinger, Simon and Dent), you will be addressing ways