Premier Golda Meir told reporters today that there were no arguments during her visits with American officials here on matters of mutual interest between the United States and Israel Mrs. Meir held a briefing for Israeli correspondents following her 90 minute meeting with President Nixon at the White House this morning. She told them, “I said in 1969 that we have a friend in the White House and I can repeat it now.”
It was understood in Israeli circles here that during her meetings at the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon yesterday and today, no demands were made on Israel and Mrs. Meir was not asked to take any measures to open any new activities regarding Middle East affairs. The view in high level diplomatic circles here is that there has been no change in the positions, of King Hussein of Jordan or President Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
One source said there might be a change in the tone of their discussion of Middle East problems but no difference in substance. It was understood that the White House conveyed the impression that the visits here within a period of a few weeks of Premier Meir, King Hussein and Hafez Ismail, President Sadat’s personal envoy, were purely coincidental.
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