Jimmy Carter actually said...

It's a very discouraging and frustrating thing to be the intermediary or the messenger boy between a group of leaders in the Middle East who won't even speak to each other.

Context

Interview With the President Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With a Group of Editors and News Directors.

02/09/1978

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