CBS News - Republican Convention - 1992-08-18 (partial)

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[0:12] Here in Houston, the eyes of Texas and

[0:14] the country are upon the Republican

[0:16] party tonight. Second night of the

[0:18] Republican National Convention. This

[0:21] evening, fire and brimstone from someone

[0:23] who the Republicans say symbolizes their

[0:26] party's outreach to disaffected

[0:28] Democrats. Texas Democrat turned

[0:31] Republican Senator Frell Graham. You're

[0:33] bound to hear some colorful attack

[0:35] rhetoric here in Houston. The question

[0:37] is, how does it play with you, the

[0:40] voter?

[0:54] Campaign 92, the Republican National

[0:57] Convention.

[0:59] Live from the Astrodome in Houston,

[1:01] Texas, here is Dan Rabbit.

[1:04] >> Good evening. Here on the floor inside

[1:06] the Astrodome, the mood among Republican

[1:08] delegates is up. They loved last night's

[1:11] scathing attacks on Governor Clinton and

[1:13] on Mrs. Clinton, and they are thirsting

[1:15] for more. Tonight's featured speakers

[1:17] are Jack Kemp and Bill Graham. Besides,

[1:20] of course, wanting to position

[1:21] themselves for presidential races in

[1:23] 1996, they will be trying to cut up

[1:26] Governor Bill Clinton's detailed

[1:28] economic plan for America's future.

[1:30] Their job is to smash it. And as they

[1:32] would put it, call it what it is, in

[1:34] their opinion, not very much. Now, check

[1:36] it out. The Republican party calls this

[1:39] domestic agenda night at their

[1:41] convention. But when it comes to topic

[1:44] A, jobs, business, and the American

[1:46] economy, today's drop in new home

[1:48] construction is yet another reminder of

[1:51] exactly what the Bush Quail ticket is up

[1:53] against. If you believe, as many in this

[1:55] hall are convinced, that the economy is

[1:58] issue number one and the issue upon

[2:00] which the election is likely to turn.

[2:02] This was not particularly good news

[2:04] today, to say the least. After 12 years

[2:06] in power, here's a basic question. Is

[2:09] the Republican party's economic engine

[2:11] running out of gas? Ed Bradley's been

[2:14] checking that out in the Florida

[2:15] delegation. Good evening, Ed.

[2:17] >> Dan Jim Baker, who will be running the

[2:18] Bush campaign, says that after nearly

[2:20] four years of focusing on foreign

[2:22] policy, it's now time for the president

[2:24] to do what he calls target America. And

[2:27] with the economy in such sad shape,

[2:29] there are a lot of targets out there to

[2:30] hit. Take this state of Florida, for

[2:32] example. Key with 25 electoral votes.

[2:34] The president's behind in the polls.

[2:36] It's got a 9% unemployment rate. That's

[2:38] a real problem for people who don't have

[2:40] a jobs and even a problem of perception

[2:42] for those who are afraid to spend money

[2:44] because they're concerned about the

[2:46] future of the economy. And the party

[2:47] professionals say that it's no longer

[2:49] good enough for the president to blame

[2:51] Congress for what they haven't done, the

[2:52] programs of his that they haven't

[2:54] passed. They say it's time for him now

[2:56] to hook up that vision thing and to

[2:58] prove that he does have an economic

[3:00] program and two that he can pull it off.

[3:02] And Dan, that's the challenge he's

[3:04] facing right now.

[3:05] >> Thanks. A key battleground state is

[3:07] Ohio. It generally is in every election.

[3:09] It may be especially so this time.

[3:11] Connie Chung is in the Ohio delegation.

[3:13] Is Ohio's economy helping or hurting

[3:15] George Bush? Connie,

[3:16] >> it's hurting him, Dan. Um, Ohio is the

[3:19] heart of the Midwest. It's a makeorb

[3:21] breakak state for him. No Republican has

[3:23] won the presidency without winning Ohio.

[3:26] And like the states that Ed was talking

[3:27] about, the recession has hit Ohio hard.

[3:30] Unemployment is 7.4%. And that's going

[3:32] to hurt President Bush, especially among

[3:34] one group of voters in particular that

[3:35] he needs to win. Reagan Democrats,

[3:37] bluecollar Democrats. Now, in 1988, Ohio

[3:40] was good to President Bush. He beat

[3:42] Dukakus 55% to 44%. But today, it's the

[3:45] exact opposite. Latest polls show that

[3:47] Clinton would beat Bush by the exact

[3:49] same margin. In fact, President Bush is

[3:51] in such trouble that campaign sources

[3:54] are telling us that he sought to have to

[3:56] ride piggyback on the popularity of the

[3:58] Republican governor. Now, that's some

[4:00] kind of strange coattail, Stan.

[4:03] >> Thanks, Connie. Up on the podium up

[4:06] there right beside the speakers is our

[4:08] chief Washington correspondent Bob

[4:09] Sheaffer. Bob, uh, it's nice to see you

[4:12] do not have that crazy camera hat on

[4:14] tonight. So far, we have not heard much

[4:17] talk about George Bush's economic

[4:18] policies at this convention. Why?

[4:21] >> Well, I think they just wanted to save

[4:23] that until tonight, Dan. But there's no

[4:25] question that if this president is

[4:26] vulnerable, the economy is not just a

[4:28] in his armor. This is a gaping

[4:31] hole. And uh the latest survey we have

[4:34] certainly bears that out in in in very

[4:37] very devastating numbers. Only 14% of

[4:40] the people pled approve of the way that

[4:42] George Bush is handling the economy.

[4:44] Fully 80% disapprove of his handling of

[4:47] the economy. I can't think of a

[4:48] president who had worse numbers than

[4:50] that. tonight. Uh perhaps by design,

[4:53] perhaps by accident, we're seeing the

[4:55] two approaches that Republicans want to

[4:56] take to the economy in that the keynote

[4:58] speaker, Phil Graham, who favors deficit

[5:01] reduction. What's the emphasis there?

[5:04] The other feature speaker of course is

[5:06] Jack Kemp. He favors tax cuts. The

[5:09] question that this convention wants to

[5:10] know, what is the Bush plan? Perhaps

[5:12] before the week is out, we'll find out.

[5:15] >> You have 77 days.

[5:17] >> Thanks, Bob.

[5:18] >> Your country

[5:19] >> up in our CBS News anchor booth. Keep in

[5:20] mind we're on the floor of the

[5:22] convention in the Astrodome up in our

[5:23] anchor booth. There is a former

[5:26] Republican challenger, now Bush

[5:27] supporter Pat Buchanan. Thanks for being

[5:29] with us, Pat.

[5:30] >> Dan, thanks for inviting me up.

[5:32] >> You basically called the president a

[5:33] liar. I looked at my notes here because

[5:34] I want to make sure I have the quote

[5:35] right for reigging on his new taxes

[5:37] pledge. Why should Americans believe

[5:40] George Bush now when he went back on

[5:42] that pledge?

[5:43] >> First, I would never use the term about

[5:44] the president a liar. There's no doubt

[5:46] the president made a promise and he saw

[5:48] fit, I think, not to keep that promise

[5:50] and he felt it was in the economic

[5:52] interest of the country. That's one of

[5:54] the president's problems, Dan. There's

[5:55] no doubt about it. The economy is

[5:57] another problem. We're running 10, 15,

[5:59] 20 points behind. But we're going to

[6:01] focus not only on the president's

[6:03] economic agenda and record, but the

[6:05] economic ideas of Mr. Clinton, who's got

[6:07] three tax increases in mind, and the

[6:09] social agenda of Bill Clinton. All of

[6:12] these things are on the table and we get

[6:13] the whole mix out there. I think we're

[6:16] going to come out of this convention

[6:17] with the water level rising.

[6:19] >> Well, we'll see. But with unemployment

[6:20] now pushing 8% and another 5,000 people

[6:23] out of work with today's closing of

[6:25] Wang, do you think strong opposition to

[6:27] gay rights is a hot issue in the

[6:30] campaign? Well, I think Dan, if you

[6:32] travel the country and you do get out

[6:33] there, I think you understand that the

[6:35] sense of alienation of people from their

[6:38] culture and a society that is ridden

[6:41] with crime and pornography and

[6:43] coarseness and incivility is a

[6:46] tremendous issue in America because a

[6:48] lot of folks feel it's the breeding

[6:49] ground of places like LA. That's a big

[6:52] issue. The economy is an enormously big

[6:54] issue. You're right. The president

[6:56] should have some ideas. I go along with

[6:58] both Kemp and Graham. I think we got to

[7:01] get back to the idea of cutting

[7:02] unnecessary spending deeply, maybe in

[7:05] some foreign policy areas and also

[7:07] cutting taxes. I agree with you. The

[7:09] president's got to come up with an

[7:10] agenda. But don't write us off, Dan. I

[7:13] do think this team can really come back.

[7:16] We've got energy, unity, and optimism

[7:19] tonight that we didn't have last week.

[7:21] >> Well, I'm on record as saying that I

[7:23] still think it's George Bush's election

[7:24] to lose for whatever that may be. I

[7:26] think he can lose it. He may lose it if

[7:27] he is to lose. But there I hear some

[7:29] talk and not all of it among Democrats

[7:31] that you're a kind of walking gender

[7:33] gap. Do you think your speech last night

[7:36] helped President Bush and Dan Quail with

[7:38] women voters?

[7:39] >> Well, I think well Dan, when you take an

[7:41] issue like uh right to life, I think u a

[7:44] very committed dedicated women lead the

[7:47] battles on both sides. I think the

[7:49] Republican party uh we done mean Ronald

[7:51] Reagan and George Bush mean they got 65%

[7:54] among men and maybe 51 52% among women.

[7:58] The gender gap in America has been

[8:00] traditionally the Democratic party is

[8:02] tremendously weak among men. It's seen

[8:05] as a weak party in foreign policy and

[8:08] defense policy and they're they're

[8:10] stronger among women. No doubt about it.

[8:12] But this is going to be a very tight

[8:13] election. Uh, I think Bob Sheffer, one

[8:15] of your reporters, mentioned Ohio, and

[8:18] you're right, Ohio is a must state for

[8:20] Republicans. Michigan, Illinois, and

[8:22] Ohio are key states. Economics is a big

[8:24] issue there. The social agenda is a big

[8:26] issue as well.

[8:27] >> Pat Buchanan, thanks for being with us.

[8:29] Our CBS News coverage from the

[8:31] Republican National Convention in

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[11:24] Jack has

[11:25] >> back under the dome in the Astrodome.

[11:27] You walk around the convention floor,

[11:29] you talk to people, you find nobody, but

[11:31] nobody criticizes President Bush. You do

[11:33] find a fair number of people who

[11:34] criticize his cabinet. Probably Nicholas

[11:37] Brady, the Treasury Secretary more than

[11:39] any other single cabinet member. Susan

[11:42] Spencer is covering President Bush at

[11:44] his headquarters hotel here in Houston.

[11:46] Susan, is the president talking about

[11:49] any possible changes should he be

[11:50] reelected?

[11:52] Well, people are starting to talk about

[11:54] those changes. You know, Dan, one of the

[11:55] president's biggest problems in this

[11:57] election is to convince voters who want

[12:00] change in general that he should be the

[12:02] agent of change, even though he's been

[12:03] in office for the last four years. In an

[12:06] interview tonight on PBS, he tried to

[12:08] drive that change point home by saying

[12:09] that he would shake up his cabinet if he

[12:11] was reelected.

[12:13] Now I think you'll see as in any second

[12:15] term a lot of changes a lot of changes

[12:17] in people maybe in structuring in the

[12:20] administr uh in the executive branch

[12:22] itself but no you're going to see a lot

[12:24] of changes you do any every after every

[12:27] first four years and you'll see plenty

[12:29] of new faces plenty of changes in this

[12:31] administration

[12:33] >> as you can see change is the operative

[12:35] word I think uh the president used the

[12:36] word change four times there in three

[12:38] sentences in that same interview he also

[12:41] predicted changes in the economy in his

[12:42] second term. He said it would be

[12:44] booming. He did concede though that

[12:46] we've been in what he called a little

[12:47] recession. Dan,

[12:49] >> thanks Susan. And one quarterback has

[12:51] just introduced another up on the

[12:53] podium. Roger Stallback, former of the

[12:55] Dallas Cowboys, has introduced Jack

[12:56] Kemp, formerly of the Buffalo Bills, the

[12:59] San Diego Chargers, and others. Connie

[13:01] Chung is over in the presidential box

[13:03] visiting with one of President Bush's

[13:05] sons, Neil. Connie,

[13:07] >> right, Dan? Just a few minutes ago, I

[13:09] spoke with Neil Bush, one of the

[13:10] president's son. He was on the floor and

[13:12] he has kept a low profile since pleading

[13:14] guilty to conflict of interest charges

[13:16] involving matters relating to a savings

[13:19] a failed savings and loan. He was with

[13:21] his wife Sharon.

[13:23] >> Do you think though that uh if your

[13:25] father had not been president of the

[13:27] United States that you wouldn't have

[13:28] been hit with so many savings and loans

[13:30] problems that uh you I can see you

[13:32] nodding your head nodding your head

[13:35] absolutely

[13:37] you think you were mistreated not only

[13:39] by government investigators I don't want

[13:41] to get into that though. We're here to

[13:42] talk about George Bush. We're here to

[13:44] with a unified

[13:45] >> outside director. Pardon me. He was only

[13:47] an outside director. I mean, we had a

[13:49] life and three We had a life and three

[13:50] small children. It was It's been very

[13:52] hard on us.

[13:54] >> Do you also believe that you were

[13:56] mistreated by the media?

[13:57] >> Yes. No question about it. But the media

[13:59] was

[13:59] >> Are you bitter about that?

[14:01] >> Yeah, I am a little bit. I'm bitter

[14:02] about the treatment the media has given

[14:04] to George Bush the last 6 months, 8

[14:06] months. I think it's brutally unfair

[14:08] that people have come to the conclusion

[14:10] that he doesn't have a domestic agenda,

[14:12] that the economy, the economic recession

[14:14] is his fault, that the welfare system

[14:16] isn't providing people with hope. The

[14:18] fact is the United States Congress

[14:20] hasn't done anything about that. And the

[14:22] only reason people have come to that

[14:23] conclusion is because they've been

[14:24] misled by people from the media, led by

[14:28] opponents who drive this issue into

[14:31] believing that the president has control

[14:32] over those things. Tax and spend comes

[14:34] from the Congress. Give dad a Congress

[14:35] he can works with and you'll see this

[14:37] country turn around.

[14:38] >> One year ago,

[14:39] >> Neil Bush is now with his mother in the

[14:41] presidential box. A family friend

[14:43] recently told me that President Bush

[14:45] said if there was any reason he would

[14:47] not run, it was because of what happened

[14:49] to Neil and how the presidency affects

[14:51] the family, but of course that was

[14:53] dismissed. Back to you, Dan.

[14:54] >> Thanks, Connie. Ed Bradley is over in

[14:56] the Illinois delegation. Ed, uh, as I

[14:58] travel around the hall here, I did find

[15:00] an awful lot of delegates who absolutely

[15:02] tetor totally, mentally loved Pat

[15:04] Buchanan's speech last night. How did it

[15:06] play in the Illinois delegates?

[15:07] >> Well, I'm standing here with the

[15:09] governor of Illinois, Dan, why don't I

[15:11] ask him? The question is the speech last

[15:13] night from Pat Buchanan. How did it play

[15:15] in your delegation?

[15:16] >> Well, I think there are parts of it that

[15:19] most everyone agreed with, others that

[15:21] maybe some didn't agree with as much. I

[15:23] think the key from Pat Buchanan was he

[15:25] was speaking to a segment of the voters

[15:27] out there, a lot of the Reagan Democrats

[15:29] that there's been a lot talked about to

[15:31] to hold them in or bring them back uh

[15:34] for George Bush. So, I think it served a

[15:36] purpose. Uh Ronald Reagan's speech, I

[15:39] think, probably appealed to a broader

[15:40] segment of the electorate and uh each

[15:43] person up there has a reason to be there

[15:45] and a group to go after.

[15:47] >> You preferred what Reagan had to say to

[15:49] what Buchanan had to say. Well,

[15:50] President Reagan has a way of saying it

[15:52] in a much more maybe pleasant way. Uh,

[15:55] nobody can accuse uh Pat Buchanan as

[15:58] being uh soft when he talks.

[16:01] >> Governor, unemployment almost at 9%.

[16:04] What can you do quickly to turn it

[16:05] around?

[16:06] >> Well, unemployment's gone down in our

[16:07] state in the last month. It's far less

[16:09] than it was 6 months ago. So, I think

[16:11] we're moving in the right direction.

[16:12] Still too high. But what we need to do

[16:15] is give business the opportunity to do

[16:17] what they can do best and that's

[16:19] compete.

[16:19] >> Thank you very much. Dan, that's

[16:20] Governor Jim Edgar from Illinois.

[16:23] Thanks, Ed. Charles Geralt is up there

[16:25] in our anchor booth. Charles, you've

[16:28] been watching and looking at the

[16:29] advanced text of the speeches for

[16:31] tonight. Uh Jack Kemp and Phil Graham

[16:34] are two different people with two

[16:36] different approaches to the economy. In

[16:38] some ways, it's kind of a mixed message,

[16:39] isn't it? radio.

[16:40] >> It is a very mixed uh message. I think

[16:43] Dan, uh let me just expand on something

[16:46] uh Bob Chaffer mentioned. The theme, as

[16:48] we've been saying tonight, is supposed

[16:50] to be what to do about the economy. As a

[16:53] party, the Republicans cannot agree what

[16:56] to do. The two main speakers tonight

[16:59] cannot agree. Jack Kemp, the old

[17:01] quarterback who's up there on the podium

[17:03] now, says the thing to do is throw the

[17:06] long bomb down field, cut taxes. That's

[17:09] how to put points on the board fast. And

[17:12] he says, "What this country needs is a

[17:14] touchdown right now. We can worry about

[17:16] the deficit later." Phil Graham, from

[17:19] whom we're going to be hearing later,

[17:21] uh, the old economics professor, says

[17:23] that's crazy. Keep the ball on the

[17:25] ground, even if it hurts. Even if it

[17:27] hurts a lot. Cut the deficit now. Slash

[17:31] spending. Balance the budget. That's the

[17:32] only way to win the game.

[17:34] Uh we all know that great national

[17:37] problems never are solved at political

[17:39] conventions. That's not what conventions

[17:41] are for. But sooner or later the great

[17:44] national problem of the economy is going

[17:46] to have to be faced. Secretary Kemp and

[17:50] Senator Graham each sure he is right

[17:53] about this. Uh each having tired of

[17:56] trying to get the ear of President Bush

[17:58] each has decided he better solve the

[18:00] problem himself by becoming president.

[18:03] Now, that's four years from now, but the

[18:05] way things are going, the deficit will

[18:07] still be there four years from now. So,

[18:09] what we are seeing tonight are two

[18:12] models on the runway, Jack Kemp and Phil

[18:15] Graham, battling each other for the soul

[18:17] of their party and both auditioning on

[18:20] national television for the job of

[18:22] president. Dan,

[18:24] >> thanks Charlie. Now, we'll be back here

[18:26] inside the hall and you'll be hearing

[18:28] some of Jack Kemp in just a moment. So,

[18:30] stay here with us. Republican Congress.

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[19:50] National Convention will continue.

[19:53] >> Let's keep our eye on the big prize,

[19:55] people. Before you reach 40, you think

[19:58] you have all the answers. After you

[20:01] reach 60, you know you have all the

[20:03] answers. And in between, what do you

[20:05] dream about these days, Cindy?

[20:07] >> I dream a lot that I'm making out in the

[20:09] car with Kevin Cosner.

[20:10] >> Are the Middle Ages premieres Thursday,

[20:12] September 3rd. John Ritter needs help

[20:15] raising boys.

[20:16] >> You poor types don't even know what good

[20:18] food is. Smell Carson Lee's breath

[20:20] there. She just had a big old Escam pie.

[20:21] >> Hearts of Fire Mondays this fall. This

[20:24] is CBS.

[20:29] >> Last summer, it seems we created a

[20:31] sensation,

[20:34] one that people drove miles to enjoy.

[20:44] Now, Hardy's barbecue sandwich is back.

[20:47] Hickory smoked southern style.

[20:51] When barbecue tastes this good, it's

[20:53] worth going out of your way for.

[20:59] >> She's a prosecutor chasing prostitution,

[21:01] raw and order.

[21:05] >> This is a News Channel 5 update.

[21:08] >> Good evening. Tonight on News Channel

[21:10] 5's 10:00 report, a decision on the

[21:12] merger of Hubard and General Hospitals

[21:14] will have a report. We'll also have a

[21:16] live report from the Republican

[21:18] convention. Lamar Alexander is scheduled

[21:20] to speak tonight. A communications

[21:22] problem concerns the people who would

[21:24] save your life in an emergency. And

[21:26] Woody Allen says he didn't do it. Now

[21:29] this. Going grocery shopping? Drive past

[21:33] Kroger. Come to Mega Market and bring

[21:36] less money. Mega Market. You can't buy

[21:39] groceries for less.

[21:41] News, weather, and sports right after

[21:43] the convention coverage. I'll see you

[21:45] then.

[21:49] Campaign 92 CBS News coverage of the

[21:53] Republican National Convention continues

[21:57] live from the Astrodome in Houston,

[21:59] Texas. Here again is Dan Rather.

[22:02] >> And let's listen to Housing and Urban

[22:05] Development Secretary Jack Kimp. As he

[22:07] addresses this convention, keep in mind

[22:09] that he's the choice of the majority of

[22:11] delegates at this convention for 1996.

[22:14] At this moment,

[22:14] >> we don't believe that compassion should

[22:16] be measured by the size of the safety

[22:19] net.

[22:20] >> Okay, here we go. Second example.

[22:21] >> Compassion in America must be measured

[22:23] by the number of rungs on the ladder of

[22:26] opportunity upon which all people can

[22:28] climb. This is what distinguishes our

[22:31] party from the Democrats. THE DEMOCRATS

[22:34] NEW COVENANT is not new. It's not

[22:36] change. It doesn't put people first. It

[22:39] puts the government first. It doesn't

[22:41] empower people. It empowers bureaucracy.

[22:45] It doesn't encourage investment and

[22:47] growth. It just spends and spends and

[22:52] spends.

[22:54] Mario Cuomo.

[22:57] Mario Cuomo gave away the Democrats game

[23:00] plan.

[23:03] Now, wait a minute.

[23:06] He gave away the Democrats game plan

[23:08] just before their convention when he

[23:10] told us that Governor Clinton has the

[23:12] courage to raise our taxes. The

[23:16] Democrats call that courage. I call it

[23:18] crazy

[23:24] in this economy. Can you imagine

[23:27] anything more depressing and more

[23:30] destructive than raising income tax

[23:33] rates and imposing a sir tax on the

[23:35] American people? The Democrat's plan

[23:38] won't soak the rich. It'll just soak the

[23:41] poor, the middle class, and it'll drown

[23:43] our economy. We all know what the

[23:45] problem is in America. The economy is

[23:48] starved for capital. When capital is

[23:51] taxed heavily as it is now, it becomes

[23:54] scarce, available only to the privileged

[23:57] few, the spirit of enterprise and the

[24:00] engine of growth and new jobs is being

[24:02] smothered. George Bush and our party

[24:05] understood this back in 1988 when we ran

[24:08] on a pledge to cut the capital gain tax,

[24:11] index it to stop taxing gains that are

[24:13] due only to inflation, and eliminate the

[24:16] capital gain tax in our inner city

[24:18] pockets of poverty. In 1989, President

[24:22] Bush asked the Congress to carry out his

[24:24] mandate and the Democratic Congress said

[24:28] no. 1990 and 91, as the economy moved

[24:32] into recession, he asked repeatedly for

[24:35] action.

[24:37] Congress said no. This year, in the

[24:40] president's State of the Union address,

[24:42] once again, he pleaded with Congress.

[24:45] Again, Congress said no. Then

[24:49] just last week in a strict partyline

[24:53] vote, the United States Senate said no

[24:57] again.

[24:59] And tragically,

[25:01] even after

[25:03] even after the problems of Los Angeles,

[25:06] when we begged and asked the Democratic

[25:08] leadership to pass enterprise zone

[25:10] legislation that our party has

[25:12] championed for 12 years, Congress

[25:15] adjured.

[25:17] Ladies and gentlemen,

[25:20] isn't it time we said no to the

[25:22] Democratic Congress.

[25:36] What nerves they have

[25:40] these Democrats.

[25:42] The unemployment lines lengthen to 11

[25:45] million

[25:47] and they stonewall the president's pleas

[25:49] for action. And then they blame the

[25:52] president, blame our party for the

[25:54] economic decline. What nerve they have

[25:57] to now step forward and offer more

[26:00] taxation, more government, more welfare

[26:03] dependency, and then they proclaim, get

[26:06] this, a new democratic covenant.

[26:10] >> Well, let me tell you, As President

[26:13] Bush's HUD Secretary, I've traveled

[26:15] throughout this country. I found capital

[26:18] and credit are virtually non-existent in

[26:21] our nation's inner cities, and I've seen

[26:23] the results, and they're devastating.

[26:26] For 50 years, the Democratic Party has

[26:28] dictated most of the policies that

[26:31] govern our cities. higher taxes,

[26:33] redistribution of wealth, and a welfare

[26:36] system that penalizes people for

[26:38] working, discourages marriage, punishes

[26:41] the family, and literally, believe it or

[26:44] not, prohibits poor people to save.

[26:47] Ladies and gentlemen, it's not the

[26:49] values of the poor that are flawed. It's

[26:52] the values of the welfare system that

[26:54] are bankrupt.

[27:07] These policies have robbed our cities of

[27:10] vibrance,

[27:12] shattered the link between effort and

[27:13] reward. And now, and now the Democrats

[27:18] want to impose the same failed policies

[27:21] on the rest of America. What nerve.

[27:25] Our party offers a better way.

[27:28] Last year, I had the opportunity to tour

[27:30] the home of a wonderful black woman

[27:32] named Evelyn Lindsay. After years in

[27:35] public housing and on welfare, thanks to

[27:38] this administration's public private

[27:40] partnerships, she finally became a

[27:42] homeowner. After the tour was over,

[27:46] one skeptical reporter asked her,

[27:49] "Evelyn Lindsay, how can you guarantee

[27:52] that this house will look as good 10

[27:54] years from today as it does this day?"

[28:00] Evelyn Lindsay looked that reporter in

[28:02] the eye and said to him, "It'll look

[28:06] better because for the first time in my

[28:09] life, I own something of value that I

[28:12] can pass on to my children." Well,

[28:15] ladies and gentlemen,

[28:18] she spoke not only for her family, but

[28:21] for all families.

[28:23] Tonight,

[28:25] let us speak for her and for all those

[28:28] Americans who aspire to ownership and

[28:30] entrepreneurship, to jobs and upward

[28:33] mobility, to safety and security, and to

[28:36] the right to send their children to the

[28:37] school of their choice, be it public or

[28:39] private.

[28:49] President Bush

[28:51] President Bush was speaking for her

[28:55] when he told the public housing

[28:57] residents at Cochran Gardens in St.

[28:59] Louis last year that someday

[29:03] they too could own their own homes. He

[29:06] was speaking for them when he told a

[29:08] cheering crowd that the capital gain tax

[29:11] is not a tax on the rich, it's a tax on

[29:13] the American dream. He pledged if the

[29:16] system's not helping to build a better

[29:17] life, then we must change the system.

[29:20] And we will. And we must.

[29:28] I loved.

[29:31] I loved hearing Ronald Reagan last

[29:34] night.

[29:38] Really did.

[29:44] I love hearing President Reagan remind

[29:46] us last night that it's not enough to be

[29:50] equal in the eyes of God.

[29:52] We want an America in which we are equal

[29:56] in the eyes of each other. Our party

[30:00] offers a more powerful vision of

[30:02] America, an America committed to

[30:04] prosperity and equality of opportunity,

[30:07] to jobs for all our people. We must be

[30:10] the party that unleashes the talents of

[30:12] every single American boy and girl and

[30:15] every child of God. That's why I'm so

[30:18] proud of our president's platform. It

[30:20] puts our party on the side of lower tax

[30:22] rates on working families, lower tax

[30:25] rates on the formation of capital, lower

[30:27] tax rates on the firsttime home buyer,

[30:30] and lower tax rates on poor Americans

[30:32] who want their shot at the American

[30:34] dream. We must give it to them.

[30:44] My fellow Americans,

[30:46] the liberal Democrats just don't get it.

[30:51] They don't understand that you can't

[30:53] create more employees

[30:55] without first creating more employers.

[30:59] That you can't have capitalism without

[31:01] capital. And we can't expect people to

[31:06] defend property rights when they're

[31:08] denied access to property. But when

[31:11] people have a stake in the system,

[31:14] they'll not only defend their own

[31:16] property, they'll help their neighbor

[31:18] defend his property as well.

[31:24] You see,

[31:27] you see

[31:31] this is the message in Los Angeles.

[31:35] This is the message. This is the message

[31:37] of every other pocket of poverty in

[31:39] America. We must be the party that gives

[31:43] all people a stake in the system and a

[31:46] stake in each other. That's what the

[31:48] reelection of George Bush means to

[31:50] America. We have the ideas. We're on the

[31:54] side of history. And we must bring alive

[31:57] the promise of the Declaration of

[31:59] Independence to all people everywhere.

[32:02] Ladies and gentlemen, this is a great

[32:05] cause.

[32:07] We've got a great team.

[32:09] And let me say it is an old football

[32:11] player who played in this very stadium.

[32:15] We've got a great quarterback and George

[32:17] Bush.

[32:30] Heat up here.

[32:54] Give them hell. Thursday night

[33:08] with the president

[33:11] sitting at Mrs. George Bush's side. Jack

[33:14] Kent gives his vision of America's

[33:16] future. Our CBS News coverage of the

[33:19] Republican measure will continue in the

[33:22] core of the Astrodome after these

[33:23] messages.

[33:35] Everyone calls me father

[33:38] and I love a kid cereal.

[33:40] >> Brave adults wrestle with the notion

[33:41] that Kellogg's Frosted Flakes is just

[33:43] for kids.

[33:44] >> I work with tigers.

[33:46] I never thought I'd love one.

[33:48] >> That delectable frosting, that

[33:50] incredible crunch. No wonder adults

[33:52] never outgrow the taste.

[33:53] >> Oh, I'm guilty. Guilty. Guilty.

[33:57] >> It's no crime. Frosted Flakes have the

[33:59] taste adults have grown to love. They're

[34:02] great.

[34:04] >> At Red Lobster, it's going, going, and

[34:07] soon to be gone. Our full pound of

[34:09] shrimp special. Whoops. Overflowing your

[34:12] plate. A full pound of shrimp. There's

[34:14] so much you may need a doggy bag at Red

[34:18] Lobster

[34:20] >> today. There's the ProStep patch. It's a

[34:22] nicotine transdermal system.

[34:23] >> It's a patch.

[34:24] >> We just heard about it.

[34:26] >> Protep. It's available only by

[34:28] prescription.

[34:29] >> It's ProStep.

[34:31] I'm going to ask my doctor about it.

[34:33] >> Protep.

[34:34] >> In a place where dreams come true. I

[34:37] love him.

[34:38] >> Don't love me. A nightmare unfolds as a

[34:41] woman's secret life shatters the lives

[34:42] around her.

[34:43] >> Get off me.

[34:44] >> And her only hope,

[34:46] >> how do you know that she was shot?

[34:47] >> Is to reveal her secret. Lisa Hartman

[34:50] Black, Drew Barrymore, and Jennifer

[34:51] Beiel's 2000 Malibu Road. Sunday.

[34:54] >> It's a love story.

[34:56] >> I'm crazy about her.

[34:57] >> It's a war story.

[34:58] >> You look like that couch in front of the

[35:00] gas station.

[35:00] >> Susan Day and Jay Thomas make Love and

[35:02] War Mondays this fall.

[35:07] Back here on the floor of the Republican

[35:08] National Convention, Jack Kemp has just

[35:10] finished his address. Next featured

[35:12] speaker is to be Texas Bill Graham,

[35:14] United States Senator and future

[35:16] presidential hope. Right now up in our

[35:18] CBS News Booth is our consulting team,

[35:22] Joe Klein and Kevin Phillips. Gentlemen,

[35:24] what is the future of the Buchanan

[35:26] message, Kevin?

[35:28] >> Well, I think the Buchanan message is a

[35:31] uh is a powerful one for one segment of

[35:34] the Republican party. I think the Kemp

[35:36] message is a powerful one for segments.

[35:38] What we're looking at here within the

[35:40] Republican framework really is an

[35:42] attempt to knit in a number of the

[35:44] party's peripheries. We've seen it on

[35:46] abortion, on the constitutional

[35:47] amendment. We've seen it with Buchanan,

[35:50] on the the gay bashing. We've now seen

[35:52] it with Jack Kemp very powerfully, on

[35:54] capital gains, which is a peripheral

[35:57] issue, but one that's important to a

[35:59] number of constituencies. We'll see it

[36:00] with Pat Robertson and the religious

[36:02] right. This is pretty unusual for a

[36:04] Republican convention to be doing it

[36:06] this way.

[36:08] >> Joe Klein, today's economic news.

[36:12] >> Construction statistics down. The Wang

[36:15] Corporation goes into bankruptcy. 5,000

[36:18] people out of work. Not exactly the

[36:21] backdrop that this Republican convention

[36:23] would have preferred for this particular

[36:25] day.

[36:25] >> You know, it's interesting, Dan. You

[36:27] hear Jack Kemp speak and there's all

[36:29] this optimism and they're attractive

[36:30] ideas and he's had a heck of a time

[36:32] trying to sell that optimism for the

[36:34] four past four years in the Bush

[36:36] administration. He's been ignored. He's

[36:38] even been ridiculed. And tonight in this

[36:40] choice between sweet and sour economic

[36:43] policies, he's the warmup back and the

[36:45] sour guy. Phil Grim gets the gets the

[36:47] keynote address.

[36:49] >> Excuse me one second, Joe. I'm very

[36:50] sorry to interrupt you, but Bob Sheep is

[36:52] on the podium with Jack Kemp. Let's go

[36:53] up there. I'll get back to you in a

[36:54] moment, Bob.

[36:55] >> Well, thank you very much, Dan. and uh

[36:57] Secretary Kimp got quite a reception of

[37:00] that speech and I must say the tone of

[37:02] your speech and what you said about Los

[37:03] Angeles was strikingly different from

[37:06] what was said here last night by Pat

[37:08] Buchanan. Was that by design?

[37:10] >> Well, I thought it had to be answered.

[37:11] Um I wanted to talk about Los Angeles

[37:13] and the inner city because I think our

[37:15] party and I believe our party if it's

[37:17] going to be a party Lincoln must reach

[37:19] out to the inner city and to minorities

[37:20] and to immigrant Americans. And I wanted

[37:22] to say that there are better answers

[37:25] than to just put more federal troops

[37:26] into the center cities. In fact, that's

[37:28] not an answer. The answer is more jobs

[37:30] and more opportunity.

[37:31] >> What did you think in general of the

[37:33] tone of Mr. Buchanan speech?

[37:35] >> Well, he did what he wanted to do and he

[37:37] did what the crowd came to hear Pat

[37:39] Buchanan do. He uh excited the party

[37:42] faithful. He gave them a lot of uh red

[37:44] meat and he had some great lines. Uh uh

[37:48] I felt like we had to say something that

[37:51] goes beyond just being bashing of the

[37:55] Democrats and say that a great the

[37:56] purpose of a great party is to lead a

[37:58] great cause and to provide superior

[38:00] leadership and and and motivate and

[38:02] inspire and this we must lift up not you

[38:05] know tear down or pull apart.

[38:06] >> Well do you think the message of Pat

[38:08] Buchanan was good for George Bush?

[38:10] >> I think it was good for George Bush that

[38:12] he endorsed the president. He brought

[38:14] his brigades, as he calls them, into the

[38:17] uh Bush coalition. I think President

[38:20] Reagan clearly uh stole the whole night

[38:22] with a marvelous speech and it was

[38:24] uplifting and uh I felt like that's what

[38:27] I wanted to do to a certain degree

[38:28] tonight.

[38:29] >> Secretary Jackson, thank you very much.

[38:30] Back to you, Dan.

[38:31] >> Thanks, Bob Sheer. And with apologies up

[38:33] there in the booth, Joe plan, we'll be

[38:35] getting back to you a little later on.

[38:36] Let's take a break because coming up

[38:37] next is Phil Graham, who will have a

[38:40] different vision of America's economic

[38:42] future at least. what he thinks it ought

[38:44] to be from that just articulated by

[38:46] Jack. So stay here with us.

[39:05] the president.

[39:07] Coming up next, a decision on the merger

[39:09] of Hubard and General Hospitals. A live

[39:12] report from the Republican National

[39:13] Convention. A warning to pregnant women

[39:16] and Woody Allen goes public with his

[39:18] side of the story. Details next. Join

[39:20] us.

[39:22] >> The ongoing fascination with Lee Harvey

[39:24] Oswald on Entertainment Tonight.

[39:27] Everything I put in my hair to make it

[39:29] shiny, more manageable,

[39:32] and all it took was a touch of V5.

[39:35] Yeah. V5.

[39:37] >> Alberto V5 hairdressing. A touch does so

[39:40] much.

[39:41] >> Wow. I just tried V5 for the first time.

[39:45] Yeah. The stuff in the tube your old man

[39:46] used for control. The stuff that's been

[39:49] around forever.

[39:51] Now I know why.

[39:52] >> Alberto V5 hairdressing. A touch does so

[39:55] much. Toothpaste to me was basically

[39:57] boring. I used the same stuff for 15

[39:59] years. And then my daughter brought home

[40:01] Arm and Hammer dental care gel from a

[40:02] slumber party and what a wonderful

[40:04] feeling. My teeth felt fresh, clean from

[40:06] the dentist and my mouth felt so

[40:08] healthy. And then I read more dentists

[40:10] recommend Arm and Hammer than any other

[40:11] baking soda toothpaste to help promote

[40:13] healthy teeth and gums. I still see my

[40:15] dentist twice a year, but now I get that

[40:17] fresh from the dentist feeling twice a

[40:19] day. All of a sudden, toothpaste isn't

[40:20] boring anymore. Get Arman Hammer dental

[40:22] care for that healthy, fresh from the

[40:24] dentist feeling of clean.

[40:27] >> Now, let's go up to the podium and

[40:28] listen to one of George Bush's favorite

[40:30] Republicans, United States Senator Phil

[40:32] Graham of Texas.

[40:34] >> Unveiled an easel and unveiled a mockup

[40:38] of a new commemorative postage stamp

[40:41] commemorating the passage of the Graham

[40:43] RDMAN law. And I got all teary eyed and

[40:47] called up my mama and told her I'd been

[40:49] immortalized by the post office and she

[40:51] talked to the president and it was one

[40:53] of the biggest days of her life. But she

[40:56] didn't know and I didn't know that you

[40:58] couldn't just issue a postage stamp. It

[41:01] has to be field tested to see if the

[41:03] public will accept it and use it. And we

[41:06] had the misfortune of having Washington

[41:08] DC chosen as our field test area.

[41:13] In fact, it was worse than that. We had

[41:16] the US House Post Office.

[41:20] And as you've guessed, the stamp fail

[41:23] the field test.

[41:26] The The problem was that the stamps

[41:28] weren't sticking to the envelopes.

[41:33] And they looked into it and they found

[41:36] that the Democrats were spitting on the

[41:38] wrong side.

[41:54] Never in history has a world experienced

[41:58] more dramatic changes in a shorter

[42:01] period of time than during the last four

[42:04] years. The Berlin Wall has come down.

[42:08] Eastern Europe has been liberated. The

[42:11] Soviet Union, the evil empire that

[42:13] threatened our lives and our freedom for

[42:15] 45 years exists today only in the pages

[42:19] of history books.

[42:24] 100

[42:27] 132 nations united behind our leadership

[42:30] to crush a tyrant in the Middle East.

[42:40] And America stands today in triumph with

[42:45] more economic and military power than

[42:48] any nation in the history of the world.

[42:57] None of these things happen by accident.

[43:00] They are all the result of strong

[43:03] Republican leadership. And two men, more

[43:07] than any other people on the planet,

[43:09] have been the catalyst for these

[43:11] changes. And their names are Ronald

[43:13] Reagan and George Bush.

[43:30] When you count up

[43:32] When you count up the number of nations

[43:36] When you count up the number of nations

[43:39] liberated from Soviet tyranny.

[43:42] When you total up the population freed

[43:44] from the Marxist yoke. When you add up

[43:48] the puppet desperates whose support from

[43:50] Moscow has now been yanked away. Ours is

[43:55] the greatest victory in the history of

[43:57] freedom.

[44:06] It was Ronald Reagan who put the Kremlin

[44:10] in the crosshairs,

[44:12] but it was George Bush who pulled the

[44:15] trigger.

[44:30] If Jimmy Carter,

[44:34] if Jimmy Carter had been reelected in

[44:38] 1980,

[44:40] if Walder Montdale had won in 1984,

[44:44] if Michael Dukakus had been elected

[44:47] president in 1988,

[44:50] The Berlin Wall would still be standing

[44:53] today and all we marvel at in the world

[44:57] would be a wishful dream.

[45:00] Leadership is the difference. It has

[45:03] changed the world. It has brought us

[45:06] more than peace. George Bush's

[45:09] leadership has brought us victory.

[45:25] With this victory secure,

[45:28] President Bush instituted a long-term

[45:30] bill down in defense, saving $300

[45:33] billion for deficit reduction and tax

[45:36] cuts for working families. But Governor

[45:40] Clinton and the Democrats don't want to

[45:42] build down defense. They want to tear it

[45:45] down.

[45:51] If they succeed in implementing the

[45:54] Clinton plan, 1 million people now in

[45:58] uniform and civilian defense jobs will

[46:02] be thrown into the streets and defense

[46:07] and defense as a percentage of the

[46:09] budget will plunge below the level that

[46:12] existed on December 7th of 1941.

[46:20] We have not forgotten that the last

[46:23] Democrat in the White House so decimated

[46:25] defense that on any given day 50% of our

[46:29] planes couldn't fly and our ships

[46:32] couldn't sail because we didn't have

[46:33] spare parts and mechanics.

[46:36] So bad was pay for the military that

[46:39] many enlisted personnel and their

[46:41] families qualified for food stamps.

[46:44] Under Republican leadership, we changed

[46:47] all that.

[46:58] We modernized our weapons and we

[47:00] recruited and have retained the finest

[47:03] young men and women who have ever worn

[47:05] the uniform of this country. And they

[47:07] wear that uniform all over the world

[47:10] tonight with a new pride and a new

[47:12] confidence. And we Republicans are

[47:15] committed to keeping it that way.

[47:29] We must never

[47:32] We must never allow the Democrats to

[47:36] disarm America again.

[47:44] There are tyrants in the world and there

[47:47] will be tyrants in the future. And when

[47:50] reason and diplomacy fail, we must have

[47:54] an army and a navy and an air force and

[47:57] a Marine Corps that do not fail.

[48:09] Even in a world where the lion and the

[48:12] lamb are about to lie down together,

[48:16] we Republicans are committed to the

[48:18] principle that the United States of

[48:21] America must always be the line.

[48:34] The Constitution

[48:36] gives the president broad unilateral

[48:39] powers in defense and foreign policy.

[48:42] And in watching George Bush exercise

[48:44] those powers, the world has stood back

[48:47] in wonder. In any hut, in any village on

[48:51] the planet, one world leader is loved,

[48:55] honored, and admired above all others.

[48:59] spoken in a thousand dialects, his name

[49:02] is still George Bush

[49:18] in the Middle East. The president united

[49:21] the world behind his leadership. He got

[49:24] the support of the Soviet Union. He got

[49:27] a resolution from the UN. He received

[49:30] the endorsement of every civilized

[49:32] nation on the face of the earth. And

[49:34] then he went to Congress and said, "Let

[49:37] America speak with one bipartisan voice

[49:40] in the Middle East." And every elected

[49:43] member of the Democratic leadership in

[49:46] the House and in the Senate said no.

[49:54] We ultimately shamed enough Democrats

[49:57] into supporting the president, but using

[50:00] his constitutional powers, the president

[50:03] could have and would have acted without

[50:06] the support of Congress.

[50:15] But the Constitution makes the president

[50:18] commanderin-chief of the army, not

[50:20] commander-in-chief of the Congress. And

[50:23] all domestic programs proposed by the

[50:26] president must be approved by Congress.

[50:29] And Democrats who control Congress by

[50:31] overwhelming margins have used their

[50:34] majority to throttle the president's

[50:36] program and to strangle the nation's

[50:39] economy in a partisan gridlock the likes

[50:42] of which we have not seen before in this

[50:45] century.

[50:48] By January of 1989,

[50:51] the Reagan Bush economic program had

[50:53] created 19 million new jobs.

[50:57] But with the longest peacetime expansion

[51:00] in American history starting to cool

[51:02] down, President Bush asked Congress for

[51:05] new incentives to ignite the economy.

[51:08] The president asked Congress for

[51:10] investment tax credits, for a cut in the

[51:12] capital gains tax, for enterprise zones,

[51:16] for a $5,000 tax credit for firsttime

[51:19] home buyers, and for an additional $500

[51:23] per child exemption. Had Congress said

[51:26] yes to these proposals, a million and a

[51:29] half more Americans would be at work

[51:31] today. But the Democrats said no.

[51:40] And to break the back of the deficit

[51:43] before it broke the back of the economy,

[51:45] George Bush asked Congress for a

[51:48] spending freeze for the line item veto

[51:51] for a balanced budget amendment to the

[51:53] Constitution. Had Congress said yes, the

[51:57] deficit would be falling and mortgage

[52:00] interest rates would be below 6% today.

[52:03] But the Democrats said no.

[52:10] to to stop skyrocketing medical cost

[52:14] from driving working families to ruin.

[52:16] President Bush asked Congress to reform

[52:19] health insurance to give the

[52:21] self-employed an insurance tax deduction

[52:24] to cap Medicare and Medicaid costs and

[52:27] to end the milliondoll malpractice suit

[52:30] that drive insurance rates out of reach.

[52:33] If the Democrats had said yes, medical

[52:36] cost and health insurance costs would

[52:38] have stabilized. But the Democrats said

[52:41] no

[52:47] to fight back against the drug thugs who

[52:50] pray off the health, happiness, and

[52:52] lives of our children.

[52:54] 1,161

[52:57] days ago today, the president sent

[53:00] Congress the nation's toughest

[53:02] anti-rime, anti-drug bill. It restored

[53:06] the federal death penalty. Under our

[53:09] bill, no matter who your daddy is or how

[53:12] society's done you wrong, if you sell

[53:14] drugs to a child, you're going to jail

[53:17] and you're going to serve every day of

[53:19] 10 years the federal penitentiary.

[53:34] And when you finally get out of prison,

[53:38] if you do it again, you're going back to

[53:40] prison. And this time, you're going back

[53:43] to life.

[53:48] Had

[53:54] Congress said yes, we would have grabbed

[53:57] the drugs by the throat. But the

[54:00] Democrats said no.

[54:06] You see, the Democrats still blame

[54:09] society, not criminals, for crime. and

[54:12] not content with just gutting the

[54:14] president's bill. The Democrats went on

[54:17] to overturn 22 Supreme Court decisions

[54:21] that had strengthened law enforcement

[54:23] that it empowered the cop on the beat to

[54:26] protect law-abiding citizens. So bad was

[54:29] their bill that 15 state Democrat

[54:34] attorneys general, not to mention 16

[54:37] Republicans, urged the president to veto

[54:41] the Democrats procriminal bill.

[54:46] America's problem today,

[54:49] America's problem today is not that the

[54:52] president's plan to energize the economy

[54:55] has failed. Our problem is that it has

[54:58] not been tried. It is not that the

[55:01] president did not ask for change, but

[55:03] that the Democrats who run Congress kill

[55:06] those changes.

[55:08] The president asked for the tools to put

[55:11] our people back to work. The president

[55:14] asked for the weapons to win back our

[55:16] streets and the Democrats bent them and

[55:20] broke them and threw them away. to

[55:23] paraphrase Winston Churchill, "Give us

[55:26] the tools and we will finish the job.

[55:29] Give us a Republican Congress and we

[55:32] will put our people back to work and we

[55:35] will put in jail where they belong.

[55:55] Democrats and Republicans agree on one

[55:58] thing. We both want change. The debate

[56:02] is not about who is for change. It's

[56:05] about the direction of the change.

[56:08] Today, America stands at the crossroads.

[56:11] It's time for choosing. Their way of

[56:14] more taxing or our way of more jobs.

[56:18] their way of more government or our way

[56:21] of more opportunity. The change

[56:24] Republicans want today is to stop the

[56:28] growth of government, to bring spending

[56:30] under control, to balance the budget,

[56:33] and to cut taxes again.

[56:57] 1970s, the last time there was a

[57:00] Democrat in the White House. Did you

[57:03] notice? Did you notice that at the

[57:06] convention in New York, the Democrats

[57:09] hid their congressional leaders?

[57:13] Poor poor Speaker Tom Foley and Majority

[57:17] Leader George Mitchell were hidden so

[57:19] far back in the crowd that you had to

[57:22] press your nose right up against a TV

[57:24] screen and get out a magnifying glass to

[57:27] see them.

[57:37] And you know why?

[57:40] You know why Governor Clinton wants

[57:43] people to forget that the Democrats run

[57:45] Congress so he can blame every problem

[57:49] in government on George Bush. But if you

[57:52] needed a magnifying glass to see the

[57:56] Democratic leaders of Congress, you

[57:59] needed a microscope

[58:01] to see the Clinton plan which has been

[58:04] touted before every special interest

[58:07] group in America.

[58:12] And the reason is obvious. The change

[58:16] that Bill Clinton has promised the

[58:18] special interest is not the change

[58:22] America wants.

[58:33] It's a plan that only lobbyists and

[58:36] lawyers, labor bosses, and big city

[58:40] political machines could love. The

[58:43] Clinton plan calls for a new domestic

[58:46] spending spree totaling over a hundred

[58:49] billion dollar a year, the largest

[58:52] increase in American history. Is that

[58:54] the change we want?

[58:59] The Clinton plan doubles payroll taxes

[59:02] and increases taxes on small business

[59:04] and family farms. It is in fact the

[59:08] largest tax increase in American

[59:10] history. Is that the change we want?

[59:15] >> The Clinton plan through new taxes and

[59:18] mandated cost will eat up 1/ half of all

[59:21] business profits. Private investment

[59:24] would collapse and millions of Americans

[59:27] would lose their jobs. Is that the

[59:29] change we want?

[59:33] The Clinton plan repeals congressional

[59:36] spending limits, kills the balanced

[59:38] budget amendment, and sends the deficit

[59:40] up by hundred billion. Is that the

[59:44] change we want?

[59:46] the Clinton plan. Add up the spending,

[59:50] add up the taxes, add up the

[59:52] regulations, add up the deficits. Is

[59:54] that the change we want?

[59:59] At the New York convention, Clinton was

[60:01] like a used car salesman pedalling his

[60:04] vehicle for change.

[60:06] The wax job was shiny. The hubcap

[60:10] sparkled. The upholstery was spotless.

[60:13] The paint was new. But when you look

[60:16] under the hood, he's pedling a model

[60:19] from the 1970s. A Carter mobile with a

[60:23] axle broken and the frame bent to the

[60:26] left.

[60:47] It was a lemon for the nation.

[60:51] It was a lemon for the nation in the

[60:54] 1970s when it