PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter managed months of intense preparation, high-stakes negotiations at Camp David and a field trip to the Gettysburg battlefield to demonstrate the consequences of war.
But looking back on his most celebrated foreign policy achievement, the 39th president said intricate diplomacy ultimately wasn't the deciding factor.
"We finally got an agreement because we all shared faith in the same God," Carter told biographer Jonathan Alter, as he traced his Christianity, Begin's Judais...
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