Word: nasserism
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Before the cameras were set to roll, Nasser wanted to know what questions Fisher would be asking. The Law School professor started to comply, supplying the president with the relatively easy first question...
...Then he put his hand on my knee and said, 'okay, what's the second question,'" Fisher recalls. "I said, 'I won't tell you.'" The outcome: Nasser caved in and consented to have the two-hour candid interview that Fisher came...
Whether or not it is his favorite area, however, Fisher has spent more time in the Middle East than anywhere else, and in a less-guarded moment he admits that his interview with Nasser--the last one granted to a Westerner before the president's death--was a "high point...
...time of the Nasser interview, Fisher had already made a name for himself outside Harvard as the host of a television show called "The Advocates," a program which former presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis would later host. For the purpose of securing the Nasser interview, however, the fact that one of Fisher's former students was one of the president's advisors certainly didn't hurt...
Fisher recalls that getting the interview with Nasser wasn't the only accomplishment of the afternoon he spent with the Egyptian president more than 20 years ago. Once the discussion began, Fisher challenged the feasibility of Nasser's demands, requesting that the president consider what would happen to the Israeli prime-minister if she gave up all of that country's occupied territories...