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SUCCESTED DINNER TO
rt is
a cr€ar pleasure to retcome you back to
behau of the American pcople, and
it is
a
this country
on
pariicular pleasure io
Mr. Prime Minisier, inio hy
home on this occasion.
I know Mrs. Nixon regiets nor being able to be*lthusthis eve.ing, but she is now wisiring west Alrrca as my personar repres€ntaiive. You ar€ the
lirsi
head ol siate io
visit u3 at san clemente,
and
r thinl< ii is appropriate rlar you should be the first. so many ol your countr)den havc come io this Staie and this ?arr]icurar area, and rheir des.endants are a vttal part of rhe econony, rhe soci€ry and the pori-
tical scene -- in mary parts of Aherica, or course - bur especiauy here in
california.
The size, the importancei and the lolceful pa.-
iicipation in our national life of the Japanese-American commtrniiy is a
shall leflection of *hat leo
peopr€s and tao
plish vhen joined iogeih€r These virtues hav€ harked
.ur lwo countries Ior
cdtu
resp€ci and lriendship.
th. cours€ of relations beieeen
many years and we
husi ttley *ilt continue to
do
one of the songs ihat vas nurb€r one on the hit palade in Japan
last year was enlitled ,child!en rcho Hawe Newer