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(Huebner) JK
Suggested Remarks on Arrival of
Prime Minister Meir
Welcome to Washington, Madame Prime Minister.
In a sense we can say to you on this occasion, "Welcome Home. "
For this is the country in which you lived for many years as a child
and a young woman; and here your son is presently living. It is a
country which you have visited many times since you left at the age of
23. This visit, however, is a very special one. For this is the first
time you have returned in your capacity as Prime Minister.
We feel close to you, Madame Prime Minister, because you
shared a part of our experience with us when you lived here. We
also feel close because our nations have many experiences in common.
One common element which is particularly important, I believe, is
the fact that both our countries were created as new nations, nations
which brought together dispersed and diversified peoples from all
parts of the world.
The work of creating a new nation must be a particularly excit-
ing experience. I remember that an earlier Prime Minister of
Israel, David Ben-Gurion, once referred to that experience as "the
greatest happiness a man can feel" since it made him "a partner with
the Lord in creation. 11 The creation of Israel was a work in which
Mrs. Meir (pronounced may-EAR) played a particularly important part.
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