A proud Nixon boasted, “Christ, if it weren’t for me, there wouldn’t be any Israel. They know that in Israel. Golda knows that, even though they may not know it over here.”
PRIME MINISTER Golda Meir stands with US president Richard Nixon and secretary of state Henry Kissinger, outside the White House, in November 1973.(photo credit: Marion S. Trikosko/Library of Congress)ByRON RUBIN