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Tuesday, March 25, 2003
Henry Hyde on Jimmy Carter in 1989:To be sure, Camp David would not have been possible without the efforts of the heroic Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat, and the gritty Israeli prime minister, Menachem Begin -- efforts that were quite fittingly honored by the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize. But Camp David would not have been successful without the extraordinary personal labors of Jimmy Carter, whose invitation to Camp David broke a negotiating logjam and who refused to take failure for an answer during 12 long days of bargaining at the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains.
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It is no secret that I had, and still have, the most serious differences with Jimmy Carter about America's role in world politics. But I would be less than honest if I, as one of Carter's critics, did not acknowledge his most signal foreign-policy accomplishment: his leadership in securing the Camp David accords. And I might suggest that the Nobel committee consider redressing a historic injustice by awarding its 1989 peace prize to the man who made the 1978 Nobel Prize to Sadat and Begin possible: the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter of Georgia. From an Op-Ed in The Los Angeles Times, 2/10/89.
Steven I. Weiss 3:26:00 PM
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