15. With Teddy Kollek (far right), who would become the longest serving mayor of Jerusalem and who would become a good friend in the late 1970s.
16. During an Iraqi scud missile attack on Tel Aviv in 1991.
17. With Turgut Özal (right), president of Turkey, in 1992. I first met Özal when he was a young parliamentarian and he came to visit me once at Princeton. Like many Turks, he was intensely interested in history.
18. One of the small gatherings at Castel Gandolfo to which I was invited by Pope John Paul II (left) in the mid-1990s. I’m on the far right.
19. With Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in 1996. He was one of the finest people I have met in my long life.
20. With Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, shortly before he was assassinated.
21. With Buntzie after I received an honorary doctorate from Princeton in 2002.
22. With Vice President Dick Cheney in his office in 2003.
23. Buntzie and I had a wonderful time at the Allen & Company conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, in 2004. It’s an annual retreat for Hollywood moguls and Wall Street tycoons.
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