It seems that the much-publicized missing page from Jimmy Carter’s diary finally surfaced yesterday.

It starts out with, "Rough day. Almost blew the peace process."

It then goes on to describe a meeting that Carter had with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. They were apparently laying the groundwork for coming meetings when Carter tried to impose a speech code upon the other two. Both Sadat and Begin blew up and threatened to walk out.

"If I want to call Anwar the ignorant son of a half-breed camel whose mother was a camp follower in the days of Farouk, that’s between me and Anwar," said the Israeli Prime Minister.

"Damn right," added the Egyptian President. "And if I want to call Menachem a money-grubbing, greedy, son of a leprous pawn broker, that’s no one’s business but ours."

Apparently taken aback by this response, Carter explained that he was only trying to help structure the dialogue between the two so that neither one’s sensitivities would be violated. After all, he said, speech codes are imposed on college students in America all the time to serve the same purpose.

At which point both Sadat and Begin howled derisively.

"First of all," Begin said when he had stopped laughing, "We’re not exactly kids, you know. So you can’t muscle us the way you muscle your students."

Sadat then chimed in with "I couldn’t agree more." He then added. "We Israelis and Egyptians prefer violating each other’s sensitivities to killing each other. But you foolish Americans prefer to do just the opposite. And you call yourselves peacemakers. Fooey!"

End of article.

No wonder Jimmy tried to bury it.

Think about it.