Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Halevy: "If this trip leads to the signing of a peace treaty, it will probably guarantee the future of my generation and that of my children's generation. We have become so used to wars that peace is something we have only dreamed about...
...Carter flew off from Andrews Air Force Base, after a surprisingly successful White House meeting with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, he had no advance assurance that his trip would not lead to an embarrassing failure. It thus entailed major political risks, both for the nations involved and for Carter personally. If he had to return home without having brought Cairo and Jerusalem substantially closer to agreement, he could be criticized for unwisely raising expectations, for wasting U.S. influence, and for improvising showy moves without any serious plan behind them. Said a Washington-based European diplomat: "It is extremely risky...
...White House clearly enjoyed revealing the presidential trip. Even the regulars in the briefing room gasped when Jody Powell announced it. At Powell's elbow sat two rare visitors to the press room, Presidential Aides Hamilton Jordan and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Barely able to contain their pleasure, they had dropped by to relish the reporters' surprise...
...House. In an eight-minute meeting, Carter told him of his plan to fly to the Middle East to obtain Egypt's acceptance of the compromise. Leaving the President's office, Begin flashed a "thumbs up" sign to an aide and exclaimed, "Good news! World news!" Cutting short his trip to the U.S. by one day, he flew home and declared, "This has been a good week for Israel...
...ready for the President very quickly. Travel routes were cleaned, electricity service was improved (in the hope that street lights would not all suddenly go out, as often happens), and communication equipment was installed to serve the official American party and the estimated 2,500 journalists covering the trip. To house the visitors, the government took over the entire 400-room Nile Hilton Hotel, forcing its infuriated guests to find other accommodations in the middle of the tourist season. Concerned about terrorists, authorities confined Cairo residents with radical backgrounds to their homes until Carter's departure...