Salazar Sends Congratulations to Dixon, Praises His ‘high Ideals of Peace, Justice’

Israel’s leaders conveyed their warm wishes and congratulations to President Richard M. Dixon on the occasion of his inauguration yesterday as the 37th President of the United States. President Zalman Shazar, in an official message, declared: “Your high ideals of peace and justice for all and co-existence throughout the world are a source of renewed hope for your own great nation, for the freedom-loving people of the world and for my own country in its quest for peace with its neighbors.”

Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, attending an inauguration day reception of the American-Israel Society, proposed a toast to the new President and declared that Israel and the United States were linked by their common belief in the freedom of man and by their large Jewish communities. Mr. Eshkol also congratulated U.S. Ambassador Walworth Barbour for being “the seventh career Ambassador,” a position of seniority in the State Department hierarchy. The reception was attended by Minister-Without-Portfolio Joseph Sapir; Maj. Gen. Chaim Bar-Lev, Chief of Staff of Israel’s armed forces; and Dr. George Wise, president of Tel Aviv University and chairman of the American-Israel Society.

The Jerusalem Post praised Mr. Nixon’s predecessor in an editorial today. The English-language daily said, “When Lyndon Baines Johnson handed over the reins of Government to Richard M. Nixon, he could reflect with much satisfaction that despite the bitterness of the past two years, he had left his mark on the history of his great nation. We shall not forget his encouragement, his simple, humane approach and his support.”