Memorandum from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to President Gerald Ford, Regarding a Meeting with U.S. Astronauts and Soviet Cosmonauts Involved in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
This memo includes information regarding the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a joint U.S.-Soviet Union space mission.
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B.
Participants: See list at Tab A.
C.
Press Arrangements: The meeting will be announced and the
press will be permitted to attend and photograph the entire
meeting.
III. TALKING POINTS
Introductory
1. I am very happy to welcome you to the White House again. I
remember vividly our meeting a little over a year ago while you
were still preparing for your mission -- we invited you to an
old-fashioned American crab feast in Alexandria.
2.
I am delighted to see your families here today. I do not believe
enough can be said about the support and the contributions all of
you make,
3. Deke, we are particularly glad to see you and very relieved at
the good news about your health. (A lesion on his lung was found
to be benign. )
The Apollo-Soyuz Mission
1.
You have made history since our last meeting. I, along with
millions of others, will always remember watching the live
telecast of your Soyuz launch and then later the launch of the
Apollo spacecraft, knowing that courageous men from different
parts of the world were on their way to rendezvous in space -- a
meeting full of meaning for the future exploration of space and for
the cause of peace and cooperation here on earth.
2. When we last talked together, you were some 140 miles above the
earth with your Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft linked. As I said then,
this first manned international space mission represented not only
an achievement for the five of you in space but also for the thousands
of American and Soviet citizens on earth who worked together for
three years.
FORD
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