*-I'd just choose to explain here briefly that if you're at this section of the website after having visited others, you already know that a number of people in past urged me to write a book about my "International Diplomatic Work...on a direct basis." You can verify this by taking a BRIEF SIDESTEP HERE to see the text of then-British Columbia Premier Bill Vander Zalm's letter to me on the subject.. And if you TAKE A BRIEF SIDESTEP HERE, you can see the text of the first of the two letters i received for this purpose from Mrs. Alan Paton, writing to me on behalf of her esteemed husband, Alan Paton, author of the second most popular book in the history of South Africa (after the Holy Bible), 'Cry, The Beloved Country'.
If you haven't done so already and want to see a draft of the 'Author's Introduction' to it, TAKE A BRIEF SIDESTEP HERE.
I'm mentioning this now because it strikes me as presently relevant that you understand how i came up with the planned title for the book: 'Democratic Values Watergate Under The Bridge'.
When i did the key elements of this "International Diplomatic Work...on a direct basis" in 1978, a lot of important things were happening almost simultaneously.
Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin, and Anwar el-Sadat were meeting for the Camp David Summit. The Soviets cancelled the planned goodwill concert tour of the U.S.S.R. by Fleetwood Mac.
We had contacted the Vatican for help and two popes died in about a month-and-a-half.
I had contacted and given documentation to a number of international authorities--BEGIN, SADAT, McNAMARA, numerous American authorities--Senator Teddy Kennedy, Senator Bob Dole, Senator Henry Jackson, President Gerald Ford, former California Governor Ronald Reagan, among others. Canadian authorities--Leader of the Official Opposition Joe Clark, Canadian federal New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent, Premier of British Columbia Bill Bennett, British Columbia provincial New Democratic Party Leader Dave Barrett, and Prime Minister of Canada Pierre E. Trudeau and a number of his cabinet ministers.

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