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Leaders Hopeful on Eve of Annapolis Summit

By Don Gonyea

Published November 26, 2007 at 1:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

In advance of Tuesday's international conference on the Middle East, President Bush met Monday with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the White House.

All expressed hope that peace could finally be achieved, but hinted at the serious divisions over the best way to achieve that peace.

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Don Gonyea

You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.