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Digitized from Box 20 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JANUARY 29, 1976
OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
EXCHANGE OF REMARKS
BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT
AND
YITZHAK RABIN
PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL
THE SHOREHAM AMERICANA HOTEL
7:10 P.M. EST
PRIME MINISTER RABIN: Mr. President, ladies and
gentlemen:
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for your
kind invitation to come as official guests of you to this
country. I would like to thank you very much for the time
that you have allotted for the discussion that we have had
in the last three days about the problems that we face
in our region and in the effort to move towards peace.
I am sure that the talks have helped and I hope
will advance the cause of peace. I think these kind of
relations that you offer to me on a personal basis as well
as in the relations between our two countries will be an
encouragement to the cause of peace in the area, and I would
like to thank you very, very much for your personal interest,
personal help in doing so.
And, Mr. President, towards the end of my visit
in Washington, again, thank you very, very much.
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Prime Minister and Mrs. Rabin:
I am delighted to be here and to see so many, many
of your friends. We, of course, are very pleased that you
are in the United States. I feel, as you do, that the discussions
we have had in the three days have been very meaningful.
I believe they will be very productive. It has been a fine
experience for me to renew our personal friendship that
existed over a period of years when you were the Ambassador
for Israel. It has been for you, I am sure, a great experience
to renew your acquaintances with your many, many friends on
Capitol Hill and I am certain, from what I have heard from some
of my old friends, your presentation to the Congress yesterday
in joint session was outstanding. In fact, I heard it was
so good that I am not sure I want to make a State of the
Union up there. (Laughter)
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But let me reiterate what we have said both privately
and publicly. The United States, at the present time, as it
has been under five previous Presidents, is dedicated to the
survival and the security of Israel. We mean it. At the
same time, we are dedicated to working with you in moving
forward to real peace in the Middle East.
You have been staunch and steadfast in your
dedication on behalf of your country and at the same time
have shown great statesmanship and leadership in that very
difficult area of the world. I can't thank you enough for
the opportunity to work with you in the effort that involves
both your country and ours aimed at the achievement of the
kind of life that is needed and necessary for all peoples in
the Middle East.
You have done an outstanding job as an Ambassador
and it is a great pleasure and privilege for me to work with
you on behalf of what we all have to do in that very difficult
area, the Middle East.
I thank you for the hospitality tonight. I hope and
trust, as I am sure it will be, that as you travel around the
United States in the next seven days, you will receive as
warm a welcome everywhere as you have received in our Nation's
Capital.
Thank you very much.
END
(AT 7:15 P.M. EST)