edited everybody my name is tom johnson
render the l_b_j_ family
sixteen years ago
the first harry middleton lecture
took place in this auditorium
the next day
ladybird johnson
who had established a lecture ship to honor
the manner
who was then a library director
wrote to him
to expressed her pride
and her
and these were her words
watershed day
in the life of the l_b_j_ library
she was moved by what she felt was the chemistry
that the speaker had created between himself
and his audience
which was heavily
my students
contrary to
fargo of cynicism and glue
aim as a country to have
and for some time
the atmosphere
the chemistry
of that day
and so hopeful
the speaker that day
the creator
of that chemistry
was president jimmy carter
president carter return to the smarter in a few years later
in another
unforgettable appearance
he and president gerald ford
what's falls to make political
that they had waged
that on the stage an exchange
of merrick common discourse
with the disposition
to sheik common ground
on the issues that were confronting this nation
yet was they display
both the american political system
at its very finest
who was here that
will ever forget it
powell we saw
that civility
and that respect
fort each brother
in the politics of today
so little speck great honor
for us to welcome
this plan dead man
back here
once again
uh... so i get from the memory of the risk
rich distinctions
he has for ready confer
on this fire in the school but his visits
thirty at night president of the united states
wenner of the nobel prize for peace
baked hire less global traveler
for the cause of justice
the provider of whole
for the homeless
a man who may be
ladybird johnson
proud election ship
in the name of variables and
ladies and gentlemen please welcome
president jimmy carter
had a good president carter tonight
busy outstanding
to exacted rector
of the l_b_j_ library
not quite so new anymore but a person we are delighted to have in that position
shortly a worthy successor
darren dalton welcomed mark but the growth mark
but do you think you so much for being here this prison
we are delighted
and you come in a very fortuitous time in the sense that
i think uh... all over my answer on
what's going on in the middle east right now there's no one
don't one u_s_ president more sensitive with the middle east
and you you of course brokered a
historic nineteen seventy-eight peace accord between israel and egypt and
order if you could talk a little bit about how you view the situation the middle eastern
but a modest good to be here again and to be in the library of
amended version online and formatting greatest admiration and appreciation
uh... when i was the wrong problem now
and after
lyndon johnson leftovers i wrote him a personal letter
a handwritten letter and said i don't know if you still have it or not but if you know
and i will look it up out of the international aid but i'm not sure
maybe plan like a copy of it because i just went on and on our appointment
well
i think the middle east uh... is still there attentive box for the whole world
and i didn't say that rick recognizing that the other
places that all
threatening to
erupt and i could the middle east unifil tells me all the way
including
uh... lebanon i've not been level and of course but also pakistan
but i think that uh... what you mean
reporting primarily was between israel and its neighbors
and when i became president and eight ten days
bom
there was no chaperone
for me to again
front too
negotiate the page
nobody put pressure on me there's nothing going on
and how they had been
four major wars in just a previous twenty five years
all of the lead on their side by agent
he was then in bed with the soviet union and all of the gypsies
military capabilities including twelve thousand advisors for from
russia
and of course we were supporting israel so when i became president i wanted to
try to bring peace to the holy land
about which i told him i send through classes i was eighteen years old
it so i began to meet with a major leaguers and
met with menachem begin and others i will go into detail about that but they
the finest person i've met he was a foreign leader was anwar sadat
and because of uh... the odds are
courage and intelligence and generosity
label as you've said mark to get an agreement between israel and egypt
uh... and nineteen seventy-eight that israel would withdraw from the occupied territories
arteries and give the palestinians full autonomy then let them run their own affairs
and six months later after intense negotiations we had a peace treaty between israel and egypt
into april of ninety seven nine other work which by the way
in thirty years has ever been violated
and our
after i left office in january
involuntarily retired by the election results
from nineteen eighty eight
so not our circle of friends
and we'll visit him in the age of ten
and his wife and my wife of friends and his children in
graduate of my friends in even our grandchildren very grand children footprint
so we were very close to each other and our
in october the eighth that yesterday i was assassinated
uh... mubarak
hosanna bart was the uh... vice president
and uh... on the difficulties and he was uh... sadat's anointed successor
sets and for thirty years or so
uh... mubarak has chosen not to have of ice president
and although she started out as a very enlightened
later
following and so that's what steps after a while
wilbert became so infatuated with power
and his family and they got more and more powerful in addition to ham his son and others
and they became very rich and investing heavily in the future
uh... money-making schemes and egypt debbie
are decided not to let anybody turn simple presence or four thirty years you might say
they had no
elements of democracy you know freedom
and uh... became from increase in the abuses
and then of course came the demonstrations intonation it was successful and then they
began about three weeks ago yesterday
an agent
are not organized by any particular group
not been little brother brotherhood or anyone else because
all the political parties have been not kept under
a lot of existence biases diet mubarak
but they grow and an address as you know milburn forcibly
i don't know what's going to happen now
the carter center has been deeply involved in in in internal affairs
israel and uh...
uh... west bank in gaza
and also in syria as well as a teacher
uh... for a number of years we have full-time officers in
in those places
and i have been negotiating primary with a man named omar soon lehman
uh... there was chosen by
mubarak two weeks ago today despite present which you never had before
and so my mother was head of the intelligence
services for agent and when i went to the middle east but i do several times a year
always proud and have several months with the loss of lehman
because he knows more about the middle east than anyone else he dead because he has intelligence
capabilities in every country that they despise and others
so what's gonna happen now i don't know
but as you all realize
that they
effort by the united states to bring peace between israel and its
neighbors
is completely at a stalemate nothing is happening
and uh... oh
that's not an exaggeration is just a blended dead in the war
because what uh...
petrol bomb a demanded
and i need to have been carol shortly after being inaugurated about ending the silence
was completely ignored
about israelis him at the building settlements now in although palestine except the guys
of course
and off and everything and nothing has happened so i think that
that in the future will say maybe more
flexibility at least in dealing with this primary
it is that i have and that is bringing peace to israel
and its neighbors
on the carter center will be involved as much as possible in
helping to orchestrate another successful election in asia
i wish to be their first one since about death
and i'll be sending a delegation of other
uh... within the next week to meet with the military leaders and also the opposition to
see how we can have been formulated
a new constitution and also to have successful election father next of september
that may be more than you wanted to know about it but uh... as as some of i don't think we
know about the uh... we didn't know uh...
the injection or take her legal scholar athlete
uh... in this so that they would yield to the dental democratic process can we trust
that the u_n_ to will in fact
make good on their prostate deep economic interests in each of them
ostensibly an interest in protecting the status quo what do you use on the net
but as you know uh... when mubarak decided to step down he said
there are more still and one is vice president echoing friday he was in bed with
with about
and that was not satisfactory to the uh... freedom
demonstrators
and so they refused and they've military has been very congenial
and helpful to they
demonstrators interest square and other places
and they protected them against their very abusive
pulleys and others and so i think that that many of the young people had confidence in
the military into maritimes to protect them
that was there's a halter
all they are uh...
conference
that the military
has now
they had on the net
twice in history
and now i think they've met for five times since uh...
mubarak left offers
and it was their meeting together
atemu barry said he would stand off s
and they password to mubarak you have to step down and he did with the military felt
as a matter of fact the military been in power battle more than fifty years
so that was a product of the military as well as nasa before him
so the military will be n charge
obviously egyptian charity and a lot of other factors in
he dipped in a future
my guess is that the military does not want to give up
their political
influence of power
but they have said what they demonstrators have done
and i think the demands of the demonstrators will not permit the military just keep charge
of the political situation they'll still be in charge of military
they still have a lot of trouble
financial investments
and that
areas aspects of the gypsum life
but i don't think they have any doubt much that they are
that that demonstrates will not accept anything cept
honest and fair and open elections with the formation of political parties
permitted for the first time and maybe a competitive election both for the parliament
uh... is it and also for the presidency as you know yesterday i believe the military
junta dissolve the parliament
which was elected on the labarge leadership without any real opposition except for his
own political parties so i'll believe it has a is a good chance now
that the military despite the fact that they would rather stay in power will give up political
power
on it is an honest elections and freedom for the people
fom do the rest of this year
it's very hard to believe you the moslem brotherhood
i've known
members of the muscle brotherhood because when i go to exhibit of the places that finally
withholding political golden
and they have rob play danny
a small role they're well-organized
uh... they have ties to hezbollah cannot
in lebanon and also to hamas
uh... whose headquarters are in
on in syria in damascus burdened also have ties with the guys are they control gaza
i think that the muslim brotherhood i'm not anything to be afraid up
in the upcoming political situation hope u abolition of actually
is most likely
because they will base of shows
in the oval wyoming
demonstration of villages are portrayed event for democracy and i don't think i a secular