Ford and Carter had promised to speak at one another’s funeral, but Ford, who died in 2006, had written a eulogy about the pair’s first meeting in 1981 on a trip for former Egyptian President ...
Former President Ford wrote that the two former presidents became friends in 1981 when they were flying over the Atlantic Ocean on their way back from Egypt following the funeral of Anwar Sadat.
The former president’s daughter ... late Southern Baptist who played a key role in the negotiation of the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty as a gentle man, rather than a partisan combatant.
Steve Ford, son of former President Gerald Ford ... and a treaty between Egypt and Israel known as the Camp David Accords, per his official White House Historical Association biography.
The developments come as Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud visits Ethiopia ... This is not the first instance of tension over Somali officials’ allegiances. Former Somali intelligence chief Mahad ...
Former President Barack Obama sat next to ... about sharing a flight with Carter to the funeral of assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. “It was somewhere over the Atlantic ...