Caffery was in hot spot when troubles began

Tensions in the Middle East have been with us for a long time, and the man squarely in the middle of them when they were perhaps even more divisive than they are today was the man for whom one of Lafayette’s busiest streets is named. Jefferson Caffery became the U.S. ambassador to Egypt in 1949, a year after the war that brought about the establishment of Israel and the displacement of more ...

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