Article: PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER EHUD OLMERT OF ISRAEL PARTICIPATE IN JOINT PRESS AVAILABILITY

The White House released the following transcript:

The East Room

5:05 P.M. EDT

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 ...

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