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Anwar Sadat became the president of Egypt in 1970 following the death of president Gamal Abdel Nasser. Both Arab nationalists opposed to the British presence in Egypt, Sadat and Nasser met while cadets at the Royal Military Academy. There they formed the Free Officers Organization, a secret society intent on expelling the British from Egypt and overthrowing the Egyptian royal family. They staged a bloodless coup in 1952, after which Nasser and Sadat...
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In September 1978 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin traveled to Camp David, Maryland, to participate in the Camp David Accords, mediated by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. While the meetings at Camp David were ostensibly held to discuss the establishment of Palestinian autonomy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, the most significant development to come out of the accords was a peace agreement signed...
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A gripping day-to-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle East, one which endures to this day.
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Scope and content: Materials in this series include interviews and items relating to individuals who served during peacetime or during periods of conflict other than those wars specified by the Library of Congress in their Veterans History Project. As a general rule, items for this series were not directly solicited, but rather were added to the project in the course of gathering materials and interviews for other segments. Note that individuals who...