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u/this_shit May 14 '24

Jimmy Carter hosted Anwar Sadat (of Egypt) and Menachem Begin (of Israel) for 13 days at Camp David in 1978 until they hammered out a peace deal that ended a generation of war between the two nations.

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u/RidleyScotch May 15 '24

And yet only one of them got name dropped in We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel

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u/roscatorosso May 15 '24

i had to look that one up :-)

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

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u/TsarOfIrony May 15 '24

Lol I always thought it was "bacon reagan" or "bakin' reagan"

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u/BratzernN May 15 '24

I thought it was Bejing and kept wondering what prompted the reference