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...When Sadat spied Kissinger, he pulled him forward from the crowd, kissed him on both cheeks and gave him the gold Parker pen with which he had signed the treaty. "I have saved this for you," said Sadat. "I was going to give it to you tonight, but I want you to have it now." Kissinger carefully carried the pen back to his K Street office and sent it out to be framed...
...Israeli Minister of Defense, turned to Kissinger with tears in her eyes. "I never thought that I would live to see it," she said. Then she looked over to where her husband was introducing her son, severely wounded in the 1973 war, to the son of Anwar Sadat...
...Friday, Sadat and Begin had made their triumphant visits to Congress and gone home to face the harsh realities of the treaty. Carter was left to struggle with inflation, energy and the Pennsylvania nuclear accident. He was tired but deeply satisfied, and for a few minutes he paused in the Oval Office to think back over what had happened and to look ahead...
...President wandered from table to table, chatting happily like a host who knows his party is a success. "This is one of those evenings that it has been hard to stay seated," he said. "I've been so excited." After the toasts, Begin and Sadat left the stage with arms around each other like vaudeville hoofers...
...years, Israel and Egypt have waged war. For the past 16 months, these two great nations have waged peace. Today we celebrate a victory-not of a bloody military campaign, but of an inspiring peace campaign. Two leaders who will loom large in the history of nations, President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin, have conducted this campaign with all the courage, tenacity, brilliance and inspiration of any generals who ever led men and machines onto the field of battle...