Achievements of tafawa balewa official visit
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Conversation With the Prime Minister of Nigeria by Means of the Syncom Communications Satellite.
THE PRESIDENT. Prime Minister? Prime Minister Balewa: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT. It is a great pleasure to talk to you from the White House. We send our very best wishes to your people and to you.
The Prime Minister: Thank you, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT. I hope that this is the beginning of much closer communication between Nigeria and the United States and, indeed, between the whole continent of Africa and our continent, our hemisphere. I think that this can be a very important means of providing for closer understanding among our peoples and also, of course, among the people of Africa.
We send you, particularly, Prime Minister, our best wishes, remembering your visit here to the United States. I also appreciated the wire you sent me in early August in regard to the test ban treaty. I think that what we are doing today shows what can be done through the peaceful use of space.
The Prime Minister: We congratulate you very heartily, Mr. President, for this very big achievement.
THE PRESIDENT. Prime Minister, I hope we will be seeing you back in the United States and that all goes well for your country and your people.
The Prime Minister: Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT. Very good wish
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A couple of days ago, I watched an enchanting 27-minute videoof the July 1961 U.S. visit of Nigeria’s first Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and couldn’t help feeling a surge of spine-tingling emotion. The video not only took me on an exciting time travel to the 1960s when the enormous hopes invested in Nigeria by the world caused it to be deeply respected everywhere; it also took me on an excursion into the mind and character of some of our immediate post-independence leaders.
I stumbled on the video on the website of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and immediately shared it with my friends on Facebook. (Watch the video here).
Between July 25 and July 28, the late Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and his modest entourage of about 10 key government officials (in contrast to the unwieldy herds of indolent hangers-on that accompany Nigerian presidents on foreign visits these days) visited the United States at the invitation of the late President John F. Kennedy during which Tafawa Balewa visited major historical landmarks in representative parts of the United States and addressed a special joint session of the United States Congress that was convened in his honor.
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