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Article: News conference with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel.(Week Ending Friday, May 26, 2006)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- May 29, 2006
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May 23, 2006
President Bush. Thank you. Mr. Prime Minister, welcome. I'm particularly pleased to welcome Mrs. Olmert to the White House as well. Thanks for coming.
The Prime Minister and I have known each other since 1998, when he was the mayor of Jerusalem, and I was the Governor of Texas. And I remember you greeting me in your office there, and you probably thought you were going to be the Prime Minister--I wasn't sure if I was going to be the President. [Laughter]
We've just had a really productive meeting. We reaffirmed the deep and abiding ties between Israel and the United States. And those ties include our commitment to democracy and our ...