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Camp David Accords and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process
The Camp David Accords, signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in September 1978, established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt in March 1979. President Carter and the U.S. Government played leading roles in creating the opportunity for this agreement to occur. From the början of his administration, Carter and his Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, pursued intensive negotiations with Arab and Israeli leaders, hoping to reconvene the Geneva Conference, which had been established in December 1973 to seek an end to the Arab-Israeli dispute.
President Jimmy Carter with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at Camp David, Maryland in September 1978. (Jimmy Carter Library)
As Carter and Vance met with individual leaders from Arab countries and Israel during the spring of 1977, negotiations f
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Presidential Campaign and the Carter Presidency
When he embarked on his quest for the presidency in 1974, he was a politician so little known that political pundits greeted his candidacy with the question, “Jimmy who?” His successful 1976 presidential campaign strategy was based on renewing the nation’s spirit and reforming its government following the national doldrums and divisions of the post-Watergate, post-Vietnam era.
In that campaign, Jimmy Carter promised to strive for “a government as good as its people,” an administration that would not be “business as usual” or “go along to get along.” When he emerged victorious over President Gerald R. Ford, President Carter made good on those pledges, sometimes to the consternation of the political establishment, including leaders of his own party.
The Carter Presidency
Jimmy Carter was sworn into office on January 20, 1977. On a day full of promise, he surprised the nation b
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Camp David Accords: Jimmy Carter Reflects 25 Years Later
This speech was made at the 25th anniversary reunion of the Camp David accords, held in Washington, D.C.
Thank you all very much. First, I want to express my personal thanks to Lee Hamilton [Woodrow Wilson Center President and Director] for his kind remarks and for being our host today. This is a historic and wonderful place for us to assemble.
I just came back a few days ago from Japan and China. The Carter Center has had programs in 65 nations in the world. In Sub-Saharan Africa, we have had about 1 million test plots in agriculture financed bygd a Japanese partner, and we are involve--The Carter Center is--in monitoring elections in almost 800,000 small villages in China. They are very honest and democratic elections.
While I was in Japan, I remembered going through China and Japan in 1981, soon after I left the vit House. At that time inom was asked to make a speech at a small college near Osaka. When I got to this little