Color satin-finish 10 x 8 official White House photo of Menachem Begin meeting with Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat, signed in blue ballpoint, "M. Begin, 78." Reverse bears a Karl Schumacher/The White House credit stamp. In fine condition. Encapsulated in a PSA/DNA authentication holder.
Menachem Begin and Anwar al-Sadat were joint recipients of the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize for their historic efforts now known as the Camp David Accords. Nobel Committee Chairman Aase Lionaes described them thusly:
‘Never has the Nobel Committee considered it apposite to award the Peace Prize to statesmen from the troubled and sadly devastated Middle East.
Never has the Prize been closely associated with agreements such as the two Camp David agreements, which provide the basis for the award to the two statesmen on whose shoulders such grave responsibilities have fallen.
Never has the Peace Prize expressed a greater or more audacious hope—a hope of peace for the people of Egypt, for the people of Israel, and for all the peoples of the strife-torn and war-ravaged Middle East.
The award of the Prize to the President of Egypt, Anwar al-Sadat, and the Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin, is moreover historical in the wider sense, in that we only know of one previous peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. This, as Israeli scholars have revealed, took place some 3,000 years ago; it was the peace concluded between King David’s son, wise King Solomon, and the Egyptian Pharaoh.’ This iconic photo is one of the most hopeful signs of peace from the 20th century.
