Let me just close by saying here on the South Lawn there is actually a Lebanese cedar tree that was planted 30 years ago, a testimony to difficult times for both the United States and Lebanon, but also the fact that we remain hopeful about the future.

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Soon, it becomes a huge tree and it becomes extremely difficult to discern one twig from another, even though the path to get there might be totally different!

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