Video: 'The CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite - March 26, 1979 - Egypt - Israel Peace Treaty'

(Monday, March 26, 1979, 2:11 p.m. EST) — After confronting each other for nearly 31 years as hostile neighbors, Egypt and Israel signed the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty at the White House today to establish peace and “normal and friendly relations.”

On this chilly early spring day, about 1,500 invited guests and millions more watching television saw President Anwar el?Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel put their signatures on the Arabic, Hebrew and English versions of the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab country.

President Carter, who was credited by both leaders for having made the agreement possible, signed, as a witness, for the United States. In a somber speech he said, “Peace has come.”

Video: 'Intelligence and the Camp David Accords' (videos 8-12: Mar. 26, 1979)