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Arab-Israeli dispute, August 1978-December 1950. Volume IX, Arab-Israeli Dispute, August 1978-December 1980 /

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"This revised edition incorporates critical material found since the publication of the first edition in 2014. This added material consists largely of personal handwritten notes taken at the September 5-17, 1978, Camp David summit by Samuel W. Lewis, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel from 1978 until 1985. Department of State historians found these notes while researching volumes for the administration of President Ronald Reagan, amidst Department material dating largely from the 1980s. Discovered subsequent to the initial publication of Foreign Relations, 1977-1980, volume IX, Arab-Israeli Dispute, August 1978-December 1980, these documents add significantly to the record of U.S. diplomacy at Camp David. While they do not alter substantively the portrait of U.S. diplomacy at the summit already represented in the first edition of the volume, this material enhances the documentary record. Department of State historians also located a more complete version of a document already published in the first edition. Sometime shortly after the summit's completion on September 17, 1978, U.S. officials produced a draft day-by-day summary of the meetings held over its duration. Readers familiar with the first edition will note that the version of this summary document published in that edition covers most, but not all, of the summit. As a result of these discoveries, the decision was taken to issue a revised edition"--Publisher's description.

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"This revised edition incorporates critical material found since the publication of the first edition in 2014. This added material consists largely of personal handwritten notes taken at the September 5-17, 1978, Camp David summit by Samuel W. Lewis, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel from 1978 until 1985. Department of State historians found these notes while researching volumes for the administration of President Ronald Reagan, amidst Department material dating largely from the 1980s. Discovered subsequent to the initial publication of Foreign Relations, 1977-1980, volume IX, Arab-Israeli Dispute, August 1978-December 1980, these documents add significantly to the record of U.S. diplomacy at Camp David. While they do not alter substantively the portrait of U.S. diplomacy at the summit already represented in the first edition of the volume, this material enhances the documentary record. Department of State historians also located a more complete version of a document already published in the first edition. Sometime shortly after the summit's completion on September 17, 1978, U.S. officials produced a draft day-by-day summary of the meetings held over its duration. Readers familiar with the first edition will note that the version of this summary document published in that edition covers most, but not all, of the summit. As a result of these discoveries, the decision was taken to issue a revised edition"--Publisher's description.

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About the series -- Preface -- Sources -- Abbreviations and terms -- Persons -- Arab-Israeli dispute, August 1978-December 1980 (Documents 1-413): Constructing frameworks for peace: The Camp David Summit, August 8-September 17, 1978 (Documents 1-57) -- Negotiating the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty, Part I: September 18-December 16, 1978 (Documents 58-159) -- Negotiating the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty, Part II: December 17, 1978-March 26, 1979 (Documents 160-241) -- The Search for a broader peace, March 27-December 31, 1979 (Documents 242-325) -- Stalemate: January 1, 1980-January 20, 1981 (Documents 326-413) -- Index.