Session #96 · 1979–81

Speech #960142379

Mr. President. will America be like the "man with no shoes who pitied himself until he saw a man with no feet?" So many of us are preoccupied with the problems of modern affluenceraging inflation. the high cost of energy. the low value of the dollar. In the midst of our economic troubles. have we shown indifference to the 3 million Khmer refugees in Cambodia who are dying of starvation. malaria. tuberculosis. and prolonged conditions of utter destitution? We have. Hundreds of thousands of Cambodians have died while the United States and the rest of the world debated about which government actually represents them.
Keywords matched
refugees

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM COHEN
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
ME
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
960142379
Paragraph
#0
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