The White House has confirmed that Egypt and Israel had sent invitations to President Nixon to visit their countries. The State Department said the invitations had been received but that it had no information about any plans by the President to visit the Middle East.
Press reports from Damascus, emerging from Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger’s shuttle trips between Damascus, Cairo and Jerusalem, were that Nixon was tentatively planning a trip to the Middle East later this year. According to one report, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt said in Cairo on Thursday that he had invited Nixon to visit Egypt. The report said Nixon also probably would visit Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
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