There is no time to lose. I am ready to go to the ends of the earth if that will save one of my soldiers, one of my officers, from being scratched. I am ready to go to their house, to the Knesset, to discuss peace with the Israeli leaders.

Born this day in 1918, army officer and politician Anwar Sadat, who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace for his peace negotiations with Israel, served as president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.