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White House Diaries
March
29
1982
March 29, 1982
Monday, March 29, 1982
Addressed Nat. Assn. of Realtors—Bob Dole & others had already spoken. Sen. R Byrd, they told me had attacked me & the ec. program & was booed by the 1400 delegates. They tell me I was interrupted 23 times by applause. Meetings with Al Haig about China & Taiwan. State wanted to send a paper to the P.R.C. & letters from me because we are about to send mil. equipment & spare parts to Taiwan. I objected to some of the terms they wanted in these papers—the note of almost apology to the P.R.C. I’m convinced the Chinese will respect us more if we politely tell them we have an obligation to the people & Taiwan & no one is going to keep us from meeting it. We didn’t send the papers.
