As we mark the passing of the 39th U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, we want to point out an interview (two interviews) that refer directly to him and his work. In one of these interviews, Kit Dobelle, his Chief of Protocol during the Camp David Summit, in 1978, with Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat, which resulted in the Camp David Accords, tells of that time.
Kit worked as President Jimmy Carter’s Chief of Protocol and later, as First Lady Rosalynn Carter’s Chief of Staff.
We talked with Kit twice, once for the Osher Lifelong Learning Insitute’s (OLLI) 1968 Oral History Project, and then as a follow up, a few years later. For that second interview, we made a podcast about Kit’s time as Chief of Protocol.
See both of these interviews on our Podcasts page.
1. Under People and their Work (About the Chief of Protocol),
2. And then, under 1968, the Year (a more general interview about her work life, but for a project focused on the year 1968.)