"Henry Kissinger: My plane ran out of oil so will your majesty order it to get supplied with oil and we are ready to pay at international rates? King Faisal: And I'm an old man who wishes to pray in Al-Aqsa before I die so will you help me in my wish?"

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RoyaltyHeads of statePeople from RiyadhIslamic fundamentalistsMuslims from Saudi Arabia
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Henry Kissinger said in his memoirs that when he met King Faisal in Jeddah the king was sad, so he told a joke to King Faisal. King Faisal was unamused and responded to him. The information was found in the book, Years of Upheaval by Henry Kissinger (1982).