MEMORANDUM FOR THE
FIL'S
RON ZIEGlER SUBJECT:
Nixon and Plioe at .n hlormal WorkinS Tanaka Minister Di6e! in Hae.ii on ihe Occasio! of tIe U. S. -Japanese Summit Meeting
Toasts Ciyen
!y President
The foUowing is a ilanscriPtion of notes taken by Ronald L. ziesLr during the dimer. These are no! direci quotations tnt are ae close 1o werbatih as Possible. The t)resident legan his rcmarks by stating ihai 6ince tlis was nol a lormal dinner. he would onrv hawe inrormal reh.rks on thls occasior and vould, i]1ereforc,
tle Priv ege ol knoving a nnmber oI Japancse Prih€ Ministers: Primc Mirister Yoshibar Kichi, lreda, Salo and lov Tanaka, and hc has had Sreat lesPect lor aU the P.ime Ministers. Tney hawe all been rine men, he said, and he haF .herished iheir He said )re has lad
personal lriendeiip.
The Presiden! recaucd Lhat ehen Pritue Ministcr Tanaka look ofrice he said,e are n.t .hangiag ine ieam, just ihe Pitchel. Tne Pre'id'nt vent on io say that wh€n nc bei orhcr Prine Minister6 thev wcre some pretty eoo.l pitchers blt that the Primc Milister lTaGka) is in lhcir has aU the P clt€s. Henasa last i"ne". --t" i" " l,ie t"uguer and,,knu.kl€ri,, ,,slide!i bnt no ,'spiflrarr' , ihe bari,, a ,,c!rve,,, a ,a President said. This analogy, based uPon sports and tle Prime Minister's personality, was ieceiwed wiih lriendtv laughtcr and aPPreciati'n' The Pleoident veni or to say ilat lawing met Prime Minister Tadaka 10 years aCo and Forei8n Minislei ohira in 1960 !e was happv ro v€icome tle leaders of lle lev and gr€at teab. The President sai'], he ha6 not played Sorl eith any visitor Irom abroad since being President, lrut lad carefuUy cle&ed the handicap ol ine Prime Minisler, vhich i3 ls. The Presideni wert on ro sav thai hi6 landicap i' goll was 13; that