Nixon was very much pro Israel. I bet Reagan was too.
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And Harry Truman. He overcame a lot of opposition, including from George Marshall, to recognize Israel.
Harry Truman was instrumental in helping to bring the state of Israel into existence and was the first head of state to recognize it.
Eisenhower, however, was not. In 1956 he led the U.N. in pressuring Israel to withdraw from Sinai when Nasser seized the Suez Canal & blockaded it with sunken ships.
Lyndon Johnson provided neither aid nor support in 1967 when Israel was surrounded by its enemies; he told them they were on their own if they attacked first (fortunately they did).
But it was Richard Nixon who may have saved Israel’s very existence in 1973 with a massive airlift, made possible by his friendship with Golda Meir.
It is so good to once again have a true friend of Israel in the WH.