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After their three days of talks with Israeli Premier Golda Meir, Richard Nixon and his aides could only be impressed by her single-mindedness. She came to Washington to seek jets and arms, but not peace through compromise. Outwardly, the Premier is the archetypical, haimisheh (homey) Jewish grandma. In fact, as she amply demonstrated on her visit, Golda Meir is among the toughest, ablest and most zealous Zionists who ever lived. She repeatedly discounted all U.S.-Soviet efforts to find a solution to the dangerous Mideast crisis...
...That is a very good portrait of Israel's Golda Meir, but there are two things missing: a broom to match her looks, and a swastika to show her true personality and ideals...
...made out of the soft earth," said Richard Nixon, "and woman was made of a hard rib." The President was quoting a Jewish proverb to describe the tough-minded, 71-year-old grandmother who stood beside him: Israeli Premier Golda Meir, who had just met Nixon for the first time. Golda Meir's visit to Washington last week was one of her most important missions since she took office six months ago. The Israelis have been apprehensive about Nixon's announced "evenhanded policy" toward the Middle East. They are acutely aware that he owes very little to Jewish...
...week's end, while Gromyko and Rogers agreed to talk further, Golda Meir prepared for a sentimental journey. After visits to New York and Los Angeles, she would return to Milwaukee, where she taught school before moving to Jerusalem in 1921. Even in Milwaukee, Middle East tensions will be apparent. With the Premier will be the largest security force to escort a foreign dignitary since Nikita Khrushchev visited...
...Golda Meir represents a pious, earnest generation that has begun to disappear in Israel. In its place are the fast-living sabras (born in Israel) with whom the older generation is frequently out of touch. Visiting England several years ago, Mrs. Meir was asked by newsmen why the Beatles had been refused permission to visit Israel. Who, she demanded, are the Beatles? After she had watched the quartet perform on television, she turned incredulously to an assistant. "How could they imagine," she asked, "that the government of Israel would give permission to these people to come in and give...