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To: JohnM who wrote (51219)	10/12/2002 4:00:44 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Brooks and Oliphant were on Lehrer tonight. Got some good lines off. Some excerpts. JIM LEHRER: First, David, what are your thoughts of Jimmy Carter winning the Nobel Peace Prize? DAVID BROOKS: I think what struck me was how political it was. There is humanitarian side which we all applaud but the committee was incredibly political in their statement and the press conference statement that it was a kick in the leg to the U.S. policy, not a very peaceful thing to say for a guy handing out a peace prize. But what surprised me more was that Carter embraced the political nature of it, that it was a critique of the Bush Administration and I think also a critique of what has happened in the Middle East in the past year or two. I thought Carter would want to rise above politics into the realm of his humanitarian work, but he is a politician, still a politician. And he embraced the critique of the United States U.S. Policy JIM LEHRER: Tom? [Tom Oliphant] TOM OLIPHANT: What I loved about covering Carter's Administration is how exasperating he can be as a person. He can be mean. He can be of enormously great purpose. He gets in the way. I mean this business about Iraq today was repeated 11 years ago before the start of the Gulf War and drove the first President Bush almost to distraction. He made President Clinton see red during the crisis with North Korea. But on the other hand, there are hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions, who are alive today in the world because of what he's done. JIM LEHRER: What did you think about the way the thing was handled on Iraq, the Nobel Committee making the statement about the leg and all that sort of stuff and then you heard what David said, how did you feel about how Jimmy Carter handled that? TOM OLIPHANT: Not well. I don't think it was in good taste and I don't think it's even helpful to the cause that he advocates, which is going through the U.N. first on this issue. I always think that a Nobel award is a very special moment and that it, even in politics, in world diplomacy, it deserves behavior that respects its special place in the world and that when you put it into an argument about a current issue, I think it dirties it a little bit and I think it is very unfortunate and there will be repercussions in the days ahead.<<<< pbs.org