Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keys to the City. From the moment the presidential Independence touched down at the National Airport, having brought the Shah from Teheran, the President spared no pains to entertain his guest. Harry Truman greeted the young Shah heartily, bundled him off to review an honor guard, and steered him through the gauntlet of White House photographers. Together they drove in an open limousine through flag-draped streets to present the Shah with a six-inch key to the nation's capital. At a formal state banquet in the Carlton Hotel that night, Harry Truman offered him the keys...
...liberty to talk with anyone you please. You are at liberty to see anything you want to see. You will not be hampered by a police guard unless you want it. And you will have to ask for it if you do want it." Replied the Shah with obvious warmth and pleasure: "Tonight, Mr. President, as your guest at Blair House, I know I shall sleep well and dream true, for I shall be in the house of my friends...
Next morning, Harry Truman waited around to see if the Shah would join him in his morning constitutional. The Shah was not used to the President's early hours, but he was up in time to accept a specially built 30-06 hunting rifle with a silver butt-plate engraved: "From the President to the Shahinshah of Iran." Said the President : "A very earnest and sincere young...
...Pound. The rest of Washington apparently agreed. While the President closeted himself in the White House for a conference with State Department officials on the Far East, the Shah was whirled off through a busy schedule of sightseeing, wreath-laying and conferences at Mount Vernon, Annapolis and the Pentagon, a formal dinner with Secretary of Slate Dean Acheson. At a luncheon given by the Overseas Writers, the Shah, who learned English in school in Switzerland, struck just the right note by announcing: "You are all, I am told, what is called 'working' newspapermen. I work...
...Shah repaid President Truman's hospitality with a lavish dinner for 800 in the main' ballroom of the Shoreham-Hotel; the Iranian Embassy was too small to hold the dinner there. Said he: "The President is one of the finest men I ever...