Page:Nixon, NSF Director Guy Stever, Soviet Academician Vadim A. Trapeznikov - March 20, 1973(Gerald Ford Library)(1552570).pdf/2

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There will be more and more topics of interest to both countries.

While science is not as spectacular as SALT, both are important and greatly affect what we can do in the future.

Sometimes the question arises which country will profit more, but in reality both will benefit.

Cooperation between the intellectuals of both sides will help the whole world.

For example, in the field of medicine, cancer, we are spending a lot of money and hope we will find answers. It doesn'1t matter who finds it first; it will benefit the whole world. So it is in all these scientific fields.

That is right, but much brain power is used for destruction. We must use our brains to bring better life for all people on earth.

We know you want to avoid pollution and we are interested too. As we develop industry, we pollute the environment. We review these questions with Dr. Stever. They are of immense importance.

A well known scientist said "We cannot expect love from nature after what we have done to it." So we have to work to save it, and it is a very important task for our two countries.

Our two countries must play the leading role because we are the most highly advanced. Therefore, we should make our joint work as effective and as practical as possible.

We are starting with basic sciences, but they eventually lead to practical results and that is what we are after. Therefore our cooperation should be not just meetings but practical results of benefit to both.

There was much preparatory work for this meeting, after your visit to Moscow.

Now we are summing up our work and Dr. Stever and I are very pleased with the cooperation.