The Wheel Of Fortune.

In mid-June 1974 Richard Nixon flew to Cairo for talks with President Anwar Sadat to follow up the Golan Heights peace talks. Nixon and Sadat traveled by train to Alexandria cheered by enthusiastic crowds on the way, some holding up 'We trust Nixon' banners. The motorcade through Alexandria itself was lined by cheering crowds in scenes not unlike John F. Kennedy in Dallas. Nixon and Sadat stood and waved to the people from an open-top Lincoln convertible too. Nixon and Sadat walked the Great Pyramids before returning to Cairo and a trade agreement. The people were out there again for Nixon's motorcade to the airport: he stopped several times to work the crowd. Then he took off for Saudi Arabia. Nixon had only a few months left of his presidency, which he had to resign before he was pushed. In Egypt, Islamic fanatics did not like Sadat's peace outreach to Israel, nor his signing of the Camp David Accords with the Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The Accords were witnessed by Jimmy Carter. In early October 1981, Sadat was assassinated by soldiers who fired rifles from a truck. Then they ran towards the stand, shooting. Sadat was in the stand watching a victory parade; hit several times, he died of bullet wounds hours later. Nixon attended Sadat's state funeral in Cairo. Sadat had written and spoken his own epitaph: ' He has lived for peace: he has died for principles'. (Anwar Sadat1918-1981) . - 4 October,2019.