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...that called for a toast...
...Capitulation." The skit concludes as Philip and the talk show's two other guests, a Labor Party representative (Chris Clemenson) and the British Minister of Science (Brian McCue), stand about in awkward silence until Philip raises his glass in a toast. "My health," he says...
Before the day ended, there was one more graceful gesture. Begin rose to give his toast, and, after suggesting that Carter be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he said, "Now, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to pay tribute to a man who is the main adviser of the President of this great country-a gentleman who did so much day and night with his inventive mind, with his great learning and knowledge-Cyrus Vance." The guests rose in a prolonged ovation. When the self-effacing Secretary of State finally had the courage to look up, his eyes were...
...speech at the opening banquet in Peking's Great Hall of the People. To their surprise, the Treasury Secretary began with seven sentences of Chinese before saying, also in Chinese: "Now allow me please to continue in English." At the end he offered a six-sentence toast in Chinese, concluding with the traditional Chinese equivalent of bottoms up, kan-pei. Chinese officials were clearly honored. It was, they said, the first time in memory that a foreign dignitary had used their language in a speech...
Carter struck the same note at dinner on the trip's last night. He used his toast for a gentlemanly reply to the Mexican's first-day attack. North Americans, Carter insisted, "are fair and decent in dealing with people of other nations." But, he added pointedly, "it is also difficult to be the neighbor of a nation such as yours, whose new economic power obliges its leaders to make difficult choices and to accept expanded responsibilities...