Richard Nixon saved Israel in 1973, no-one asked him to do what he did and he got no credit for it

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Thirty-Six Years Ago Today, Richard Nixon Saved Israel—but Got No Creditby Jason Maoz
Precise details of what transpired in Washington during the first week of the Yom Kippur War, launched by Egypt and Syria on October 6, 1973, are hard to come by, in no small measure owing to conflicting accounts given by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger regarding their respective roles. What is clear, from the preponderance of information provided by those directly involved in the unfolding events, is that President Richard Nixon — overriding inter-administration objections and bureaucratic inertia — implemented a breathtaking transfer of arms, code-named Operation Nickel Grass, that over a four-week period involved hundreds of jumbo U.S. military aircraft delivering more than 22,000 tons of armaments. This was accomplished, noted Walter J. Boyne in an article in the December 1998 issue of Air Force Magazine, while “Washington was in the throes of not only post-Vietnam moralizing on Capitol Hill but also the agony of Watergate. . . . Four days into the war, Washington was blindsided again by another political disaster -- the forced resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew.”
“Both Kissinger and Nixon wanted to do [the airlift],” said former CIA deputy director Vernon Walters, "but Nixon gave it the greater sense of urgency...****He wasn't blackmailed by Golda Meir, there were no threats to use nukes, and went beyond what the Israelis dared request. Kissinger even wanted the Israelis to "get bloodied" while expecting they would "eventually" win. Nixon went against the advice of his cabinet, the Europeans, and the distraction of his own troubles. This all despite his apparent personal streak of anti-Semitism. A very complicated man, fitting many characteristics of the Greek tragic hero who has fatal flaws. Golda Meir, however, WAS one who appreciated Nixon and what he did.****