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OCR Page 1 of 79MEMORANDUM
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SECRET/NODIS
DEC. 12, 1971
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION (FOR THEPRESIDENT'S FiLE)
Participants:
The President - Prime Minister Caetano
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Ambassador Coelho
General Vernon Walters
Place:
Quarters of Commanding General, Lajes Field, Azores
Time:
10:20 p. m., December 12, 1971
The President opened the conversation by expressing his thanks
to the Prime Minister for all he had done to facilitate the meetings on
Portuguese soil; it was very important that we solve the thorny monetary
problem and if we could make progress on Portuguese soil so much the
better. The President recalled that this was his first visit to Portuguese
soil as President. He had been to Lisbon in 1963 and he believed that
General Eisenhower had been the last U.S. President to visit Portugal.
Dr. Caetano said he had been happy to do what he could to facilitate
the meeting and if progress could be made in this delicate field on Portu-
guese soil this would be a source of pride and satisfaction to the whole
Portuguese people.
The President said that prior to his visits to Peking and Mos cow
he had wanted to talk to all of our NATO allies but that time had not made
this possible and he was therefore particularly pleased to have this occa-
sion to talk to the Prime Minister and exchange views with him. The Pres-
ident said that he was also happy that the Agreement on the Azores had
been successfully concluded. The Prime Minister said that he too was
happy at this but that looking at it realistically, Portugal had received
little and given little, yet both he and the President would be criticized
for it at home.
The President then recalled that he had told the Prime Minister
when the latter had been to Washington for General Eisenhower's funeral
that the new administration would seek ways not to make things more dif-
ficult for our friends and allies and Dr. Kissinger could bear witness to
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12958, Sect. 3.6
SECRET/NODIS
By SRG
NARA, Date 1/6/98
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