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File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SECRET/SENSITIVE
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
President Ford
Gyula Szeker, Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary
Elliot Richardson, Secretary of Commerce
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
Amb. Ferenc Esztergalyos, Hungarian Ambassador
DATE AND TIME:
Tuesday, May 4, 1976
11:58-12:15 p.m.
PLACE:
The Oval Office
President: I am very pleased you were able to accept Secretary Morton's
invitation to visit. Is this your first visit to this country?
Szeker: Yes, it is.
President: How long will you be here?
Szeker: One week. We want to visit New York and Chicago. My heart
is in industry, so I hope to see some of your industrial plants.
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President: You will see much industry if you go to the Detroit area.
Szeker: This matter is connected with the fact that we would like to
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advance in the area of industrial cooperation. I think probably we can't
be satisfied with the present level. We are a small country but our
share of trade with the US is only 1%. Before the war it used to be 5%.
We are working toward an increase.
DECLASSIFIED
President: I know the trade has been small, even though there has been
some increase.
Szeker: We have started on this road. We cooperate on tractor production
with Steiger and others. Agricultural cooperation is doing well. Secretary
Butz visited Hungary last fall. There are a large number of possibilities
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SECRET/SENSITIVE
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We feel also on the level of state relations and others, we should
raise relations to a higher level.
I would like to raise two other points, if I may: We are aware of
your great efforts to provide MFN. We would like very much to have
it prevail.
President: We were very disappointed with the legislation which
passed in 1974. We will have to get the legislation changed, but I
don't think Congress will be in the mind to do it in 1976.
One point I would like to make -- I would hope we could work out
broader cooperation in the area of scientific and cultural affairs
between us.
Szeker: We very much hope that if not in '76, then in '77 the modifi-
cation of the Act will take place.
President: We will be doing our best to change the law so we can
expand cooperation with countries like Hungary.
Szeker: One final problem. Hungary has a 1000-year history. The
Hungarian people are sensitively affected by the fact that the Hungarian
Crown is in the United States. The Hungarian people have suffered
much in many wars. Almost all our national treasures have been
destroyed. We are on the path of marching armies and we have almost
no relics of the 11th and 12th centuries. We have little earlier than
the 15th and 16th centuries. The return of the Crown jewels would
provoke a very positive response in the Hungarian people and I would
ask you to find a way to get the Crown back to the people.
President: We understand your concern. We will look at the situation
and see what can be done. I am not in a position to say yes at this time.
We understand how important this is to your cultural heritage. I will
look at the situation and communicate through the proper channels.
You are meeting with Secretaries Simon and Richardson today and you
have met Secretary Butz already. They are very able men and we hope
through them we can expand this relationship.
Szeker: Thank you very much.
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