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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Stamp on page block. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It was my third visit to the White House in as many months and the Iomens were not good. In January and March I had gone to Washing ton to see Brent Scowcroft the retired air force general serving as George Bush’s national security adviser and a man with a well-earned reputation as a strategic thinker. My mission was at once simple and delicate. For years I had been telling the Iranian authorities in Teheran that the Ameri- can president would reciprocate in some way would reach out to the Is- lamic Republic if they used their influence in Lebanon to win the freedom of the American hostages. Bush had used the words “Goodwill begets goodwill” in his inaugural address of January 20 1989 and he had meant it as a signal to those who might help in Beirut. It was directed I reminded the Iranians early and often at them. Now it was nearly four months since Terry Anderson the last of the American hostages in Beirut had been freed and the Iranians were growing restless. It was time for Washington to deliver its part of the implied quid pro quo.