of politics. city poured over intelligence reports about begin and sadat so he understood them. he took them to gettiesburg battlefield to show them the costs of continued war. he negotiated for 13 agonizing days and nights personally over 20 drafts and then chris, the last day, the 13th day, begin had decided no more concessions, i'm leaving. carter had a brilliant insight. he knew from the intelligence reports how much begin loved his eight grand children. he took photographs of himself begin and sa dad, hand wrote inscriptions to each of the grandchildren, walked over to a bag gin's cabin and handed it to him. as he was ready to go back, he saw the tears come in a bag gin's eyes as he went through each one of them. begin said mr. president, i'll give it one more try. the rest is lift. 40 years that treaty has never been violated central to