Cover-Up

What were your orders?

Did you think the people in the village were Viet Cong?

How many people died from your family?

Four people.

When you came back from the market, what did you see?

I'm too young. I was afraid to look.

Are you the only survivor in your family?

Yes.

They came and burned down everything.

They beat some, captured some. They killed everyone in a frenzy.

Do you know the reason why?

I don't know. I don't know the reason.

They rounded everyone up. Even the monk was taken away and killed.

Can you guess how many people died?

- How many people were killed? - Yes, how many?

I don't know, but I saw death everywhere. I saw so many dead bodies.

My nephew, who had just learned to walk--

He was clinging to my head and crying, "Mommy, Mommy."

Then "bang," he got shot and died. I just lay there but I couldn't see it.

Nixon: This fellow Hersh is a son of a bitch.

Nixon: He's probably a communist agent.

Kissinger: Exactly. Exactly.

Nixon: I just thought it was shocking the New York Times would run that.

Kissinger: Oh, it was a disgrace.

Nixon: What do you think?

Nixon: He was picking it, Henry, right out of whole cloth.

The biggest trouble I had was managing Sy

at a newspaper that hated to be beaten

but didn't really want to be first.