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September 25, 1969
TOAST
Dinner for Prime Minister Golda Meir
1.
I have spoken with many leaders of other governments now, and
many times we have spoken together in English. But today, I believe,
is the first time the leader of another nation and I have spoken together
in purely American English. I say this not because it matters one bit
whether people speak in one accent or another but because this experience
brought home to me one point:
Our guest tonight has spoken of the profound common values the
people of the United States and Israel share, and it is her very experience
which explains why the United States and Israel are close. It has little
to do with just religion or politics or things of that nature. It has much
to do with the simple fact that many of us share in broad terms--some
kind of common experience.
2.
But I have also been struck with an equally basic fact as we have
talked. Once two individuals become as deeply committed to their nations
and peoples as Presidents and Prime Ministers become, each must see
the world, despite certain common experience, from where he or she
lives. This is natural and proper. They will pursue similar interests
in different ways because they live in different places and with different
problems. This does not mean they cannot work together. It does mean
that they must sometimes work at working together. What matters is the
will to work together and not whether views are identical on all points.
3.
Now each of us faces a similar problem-- how to end a war. It is
difficult while fighting continues to develop a political alternative. Yet
we know how important it is to find a political alternative. The United
States is not party to the continuing hostility in the Near East, and we
cannot make peace. But maybe the United States, working from a
different perspective, can help to develop the political alternative to
continuing war which all the people of the Middle East desperately want.
4.
There is no question that the United States and Israel have a
common interest in peace. Israel's survival in the long run depends on it.
The interests of the United States in the Near East and in the world--will
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