Shah Is A Kind Of Magic Word

Nixon Has The Audacity To Tell Me To Do Nothing In The Interest Of My Country Until He Dictactes Where That Interest Lies. At The Same Time He Threatens Me That Failure To Follow His So-called Advice Will Be To Jeopardize The Special Relations Between Our Two Countries. I Say To Hell With Such Special Relations.

Let The Dog Bark; The Moon Shall Beam On.

Was The Collaboration Of Some Slaves Any Different Than The Silence Of Some Iranians Who Stood By And Did Nothing As Savak Thugs Murdered And Tortured Opponents Of The Shah? How Could We Judge Other Men Until We Had Stood In Their Shoes?

I Did Not Share The Enthusiasm Of Certain Politicians For The National Front Leader, It Was Because I Had Noticed, In The Past, Some Strange Contradictions Between Mossadeq's Declared Ends And His Actions. Officially He Defended Nationalist Anti-colonialism And Was The Most Intransigent Patriot Who Declared That No Concessions Or Advantages Should Be Granted To Foreign Powers. He Described His Doctrine As A "negative Balance" And In Fact His Greatest Failing Was That He Was Negative.

Contrary To What Many Believed, My Father Was Kind And Tenderhearted, Especially Towards His Family. His Forbidding Sternness Seemed To Melt Into Love, Kindness, And Easy Familiarity When He Was With Us. Especially With Me, His Acknowledged Successor To The Throne, He Would Play Lightheartedly. When We Were Alone Together, He Would Sing Me Little Songs; I Don't Remember His Ever Doing This In Front Of Others, But When Only The Two Of Us Were There, He Would Often Sing To Me.