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Egyptian Ambassador Ashraf Ghorbal found that the Blair House aura stimulated his feelings about U.S. history, and one of Lincoln's powerful lines ran through his thoughts: "Let us have faith that right makes might...
When pauses came in the Blair House Middle East negotiations, some of the delegates leaned back and looked at the wall. A somber visage was there to remind them of what happens when reason fails. There is a portrait of Ulysses S. Grant...
Pessimism suddenly turned to optimism in Washington. On Sunday morning, less than one week after Israeli and Egyptian negotiators had begun work at Blair House on a peace treaty between the two states that would carry out the Camp David accords. State Department Spokesman George Sherman announced that they had basically achieved their goal. "Principle issues have been resolved" said Sherman. A draft of the treaty, consisting of nine articles and a preamble, had been sent to Jerusalem and Cairo for study and approval. Negotiating work would continue this week on three annexes dealing with such issues as the exact...
...most serious problem to emerge at Blair House dealt with what is known in diplomatic jargon as "linkage"-the possible relationship between an Egyptian-Israeli treaty and subsequent pacts between Israel and other Arab states over such problems as the future of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem...
Egyptian and Israeli delegates apparently got on well with each other, both in the Blair House talks and during informal meetings at the Madison Hotel, their common residence. But as the week passed, the Israelis became somewhat irritated that the U.S. was not being more evenhanded, especially while the Blair House talks were going on. Thus, Dayan's semipublic comments about trouble brewing were partly intended to warn the Carter Administration not to go too far in siding with the Egyptians. "They are getting all of Sinai," Dayan reportedly grumbled to Carter. "You would think they might at least...