Audition (55 page)

First joint interview with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel in Jerusalem, November 1977

The shah of Iran in his opulent palace, 1977

With King Hussein and Queen Noor in 1978

With Yasir Arafat in Lebanon, 1996

In Mu‘ammar Qaddafi’s tent in Libya, January 23, 1989. I was in pink and he was in green and white.

Crossing the Bay of Pigs with Fidel Castro, May 19, 1977

Fidel Castro signed the Cuban Constitution for me the night of our interview.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whom I admired, at 10 Downing Street, 1987

China’s leader Jiang Zemin in 1990

With President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela in March 2007

Henry Kissinger and me when I was not interviewing him

In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with General Norman Schwarzkopf for the first interview he did after the First Gulf War, 1991

The note from President George H. W. Bush to General Schwarzkopf on the eve of my visit to Saudi Arabia