CBS Evening News - 1979-03-26
Channel: malgent
Uploaded:
Duration: PT3572S
Read a transcript preview of “CBS Evening News - 1979-03-26” from malgent, uploaded on 2024-06-15.
Transcript preview
Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:01] a hand clasp that sealed the bargain for
[0:04] the first time in its 30 years the state
[0:06] of Israel was at peace with one of its
[0:09] Arab Neighbors from Washington this is
[0:12] the CBS Evening News with Walter kronite
[0:15] and Morton Dean in our Newsroom in New
[0:18] York good evening let history record
[0:21] that at 11 and A2 minutes after 2 this
[0:24] afternoon Eastern Time Egypt and Israel
[0:27] had a peace treaty a treaty formally
[0:30] ending three decades of
[0:34] War Egypt's President Sadat and Israel's
[0:37] prime minister ban today at the White
[0:39] House signed this treaty for their
[0:40] countries it was a simple ceremony under
[0:43] a sunny sky that began with the three
[0:45] leaders walking the short distance from
[0:47] the White House to the North Lawn
[0:49] shaking hands and getting down to the
[0:51] business of the day affixing their
[0:53] signatures to a document sure to change
[0:55] the Middle East possibly even the world
[0:59] 1500 invited guests witnessed the event
[1:02] but the official witness to the treaty
[1:04] was President Carter and he noted that
[1:06] this is just the start that there still
[1:08] is a long and difficult road to travel
[1:11] before peace comes to all the Middle
[1:13] East we have no
[1:16] Illusions we must not
[1:19] minimize the obstacles which still lie
[1:23] ahead differences still separate the
[1:27] signatories to this treaty from one
[1:29] another them and also from some of their
[1:32] neighbors who fear what they have just
[1:36] done let those who would shatter
[1:41] peace who would
[1:44] callously spill more blood be
[1:48] aware that we three and all others who
[1:52] may join us will vigorously wage peace
[1:57] at no time during his speech did Mr
[1:59] Carter