Chapter 5: State Visits of President Rockefeller (Part I)
Sergeant Foley
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HIGHLIGHTS OF PRESIDENT ROCKEFELLER VISITING VENEZUELA, BRAZIL, NIGERIA AND LIBERIA
President Nelson Rockefeller and First Lady Happy Rockefeller boarding Marine One on the White House South Portico Grounds.
*March 28-29, 1978 (Venezuela: Caracas):
President Rockefeller met with Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez upon arriving at the Simon Bolivar Airport in Caracas. There, he was given Keys to the City and spent the night at La Casona (Residence of the Venezuelan President) via personal invitation of President Perez.
Rockefeller then laid a wreath at the gravesite of the late Venezuelan liberator Simon Bolivar. On March 29th, Rockefeller and Perez signed a Maritime boundary agreement between the United States and Venezuela; he also delivered a major address before a joint session of the Venezuelan National Congress.
*March 29-31, 1978 (Brazil: Brasilia; Rio de Janeiro):
Arriving in Brasilia almost immediately from Caracas, President Rockefeller met with Brazilian President General Ernesto Geisel at the airport: where Arrival Honors were rendered including the 21 Cannon Salute as well as the National Anthems of the United States and Brazil being played respectively; President Rockefeller reviewed the troops of the Brazilian Armed Forces during the Honor Guard Inspection.
Once the Arrival Honors Ceremony was finished, hundreds of Brazilians lined up the highways and streets as the Presidential motorcade drove past them all the way toward Palacio da Alvorada (Residence of the Brazilian President): where Rockefeller and Geisel held a joint press conference.
In his speech later that evening during the State Banquet at Palacio da Alvorada in Brasilia, Rockefeller called for a willingness for both countries to "recognize our own limitations, and to speak to each other frankly and witg sincere, honest understanding." The President recognized Brazil as a "truly great power" that has "earned the admiration of people everywhere in the world, but nowhere more so than in the United States."
On March 30th, Rockefeller delivered a speech before Joint Session of the Brazilian National Congress where he said that only a partnership between industralized countries and the developing nations of the Third World could create an international system "in which each individual and each nation has the hope of a better future." Rockefeller also declared the United States "is eager to work with you to shape a many just international economic and political order."
Later that afternoon, Rockefeller flew to Rio de Janeiro where he had scheduled meetings with Roman Catholic Cardinals Paulo Evarsio Arns, the Archbishop of Sao Paulo and Eugenio Sales of Rio.
President Nelson Rockefeller and First Lady Happy Rockefeller boarding Marine One on the White House South Portico Grounds.
*March 28-29, 1978 (Venezuela: Caracas):
President Rockefeller met with Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez upon arriving at the Simon Bolivar Airport in Caracas. There, he was given Keys to the City and spent the night at La Casona (Residence of the Venezuelan President) via personal invitation of President Perez.
Rockefeller then laid a wreath at the gravesite of the late Venezuelan liberator Simon Bolivar. On March 29th, Rockefeller and Perez signed a Maritime boundary agreement between the United States and Venezuela; he also delivered a major address before a joint session of the Venezuelan National Congress.
*March 29-31, 1978 (Brazil: Brasilia; Rio de Janeiro):
Arriving in Brasilia almost immediately from Caracas, President Rockefeller met with Brazilian President General Ernesto Geisel at the airport: where Arrival Honors were rendered including the 21 Cannon Salute as well as the National Anthems of the United States and Brazil being played respectively; President Rockefeller reviewed the troops of the Brazilian Armed Forces during the Honor Guard Inspection.
Once the Arrival Honors Ceremony was finished, hundreds of Brazilians lined up the highways and streets as the Presidential motorcade drove past them all the way toward Palacio da Alvorada (Residence of the Brazilian President): where Rockefeller and Geisel held a joint press conference.
In his speech later that evening during the State Banquet at Palacio da Alvorada in Brasilia, Rockefeller called for a willingness for both countries to "recognize our own limitations, and to speak to each other frankly and witg sincere, honest understanding." The President recognized Brazil as a "truly great power" that has "earned the admiration of people everywhere in the world, but nowhere more so than in the United States."
On March 30th, Rockefeller delivered a speech before Joint Session of the Brazilian National Congress where he said that only a partnership between industralized countries and the developing nations of the Third World could create an international system "in which each individual and each nation has the hope of a better future." Rockefeller also declared the United States "is eager to work with you to shape a many just international economic and political order."
Later that afternoon, Rockefeller flew to Rio de Janeiro where he had scheduled meetings with Roman Catholic Cardinals Paulo Evarsio Arns, the Archbishop of Sao Paulo and Eugenio Sales of Rio.
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