:38:00
...Pran dedicated himself to helping
me bring to the notice of the public.
:38:07
As they pondered their options
in the White House...
:38:10
...the men who decided to bomb
and then to invade Cambodia...
:38:15
...concerned themselves
with many things:
:38:19
Great power conflicts
and collapsing dominoes...
:38:24
...looking tough and dangerous
to the North Vietnamese...
:38:27
...relieving pressure on the American
troop withdrawal from the South.
:38:32
They had domestic concerns as well...
:38:34
...which helps explain why they kept
the bombing of Cambodia a secret.
:38:40
And they may be assumed not to have
ignored self-interest...
:38:43
...in their own careers.
:38:46
What they specifically were not
concerned with...
:38:48
...were the Cambodians themselves.
:38:51
Not the people...
:38:53
...not the society...
:38:56
...not the country.
:38:59
Except in the abstract
as instruments of policy.
:39:06
Dith Pran and I...
:39:08
...tried to record and bring home...
:39:10
...the concrete consequences
of these decisions to real people.
:39:14
To human beings...
:39:17
...the people left out
of the Administration's plans...
:39:20
...but who paid the price...
:39:22
...and took the beating for them.
:39:29
I'm very pleased to accept this
on behalf of Dith Pran and myself.
:39:34
I'm very honored...
:39:36
...and I know that Pran would be
very proud.
:39:51
Do you plan to continue
with that theme in the future?
:39:57
Congratulations, Ernie.
Do it again next year!