Page:Ford, Kissinger, Syrian Foreign Minister Khaddam - August 23, 1974(Gerald Ford Library)(1552761).pdf/1

File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

[The press was admitted briefly at the beginning, during the exchange of greetings. Then the press departed.]

I came to the airport 23 times and that is 40 minutes away from Damascus.

Does that mean I will be coming 23 times to Washington?

This is your first visit to Washington?

Yes, but I've been to the United Nations. Washington is a beautiful city.

They visited Capitol Hill yesterday.