Word: address
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Monday afternoon, Carter went to address the Knesset, and he did not mask his frustration. Going over the heads of the Israeli Premier and Cabinet, the President appealed directly to their nation. Said he: "The people of [Israel and Egypt] are now ready for peace. The leaders have not yet proven that we are also ready for peace?enough to take a chance." The Knesset listened to Carter in silence and politely applauded only once, when he had finished. This was in marked contrast to the enthusiastic response Carter had received two days earlier from the Egyptian parliament, which interrupted...
...address to the Knesset, Carter displayed a new appreciation for graceful language and thought, deciding in those critical circumstances to go beyond himself ("Doubts are the stuff of great decisions, but so are dreams"). Men like Spinoza, whom he had rarely allowed entry into his down-home rhetoric, showed up ("Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice...
...Euclid Avenue--J.B. Jackson's told us in Gas Stations that a Euclid Avenue address used to be roughly analogous in prestige to one on Park Avenue or present-day Sunset Boulevard--stands the University's physical education building, which houses the best swimming pool in the United States, and quite possibly the world...
...would only be part of "a comprehensive peace, a peace that would reflect the legitimate needs of all those who have suffered so deeply during the last 30 years of conflict, enmity and war." This is a point that Carter has been stressing with increasing frequency. Later, in his address to Egypt's parliament, he again endorsed linkage by saying that "there can be little doubt that the two agreements reached at Camp David&$151;negotiated together and signed together?are related...
Sunday evening, Begin convened his full Cabinet to take what an Israeli official called "very important decisions." Carter was scheduled to meet with the full Cabinet the next morning, and afterward address the Knesset...