CBS Evening News - 1992-07-12
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[0:03] Bill Clinton and the Democrats sweep
[0:05] into New York on the eve of their
[0:07] national convention and Pope John Paul
[0:10] II enters a Rome hospital for tests.
[0:16] This is the CBS Evening News tonight
[0:19] from New York's Madison Square Garden,
[0:22] site of the 1992 Democratic Convention.
[0:27] And this is Bob Schiffer reporting
[0:28] sitting in tonight for Connie Chung.
[0:30] Good evening. Even though he demolished
[0:32] his primary opponents, Bill Clinton
[0:34] seemed beset with bad news through most
[0:36] of this campaign year. But now, suddenly
[0:38] on the eve of the Democratic Democrats
[0:41] nominating convention here, he is
[0:43] finding good news everywhere all in one
[0:45] weekend. Clinton got a little boast
[0:47] boost in the polls. Jesse Jackson
[0:49] finally said he intended to vote
[0:51] Democratic. And Ross Perau stubbed his
[0:53] toe with an embarrassing gaff at
[0:55] yesterday's NAACP convention. So the
[0:58] Clinton team roared into New York this
[1:00] weekend full of new energy and for the
[1:02] first time real optimism. Richard Thrill
[1:05] reports.
[1:07] The last time the Clintons spent time in
[1:09] New York was this spring's rough and
[1:10] tumble New York primary. But now the
[1:13] nominations in hand, and today after
[1:15] church, the Clintons look like they were
[1:17] actually enjoying themselves. And why
[1:19] not? Last night on his cable TV show,
[1:22] Jesse Jackson finally endorsed the
[1:24] ticket, albeit reluctantly.
[1:26] >> I have decided to vote for Bill Clinton
[1:28] and El Gore. But to win, Democrats must
[1:32] inspire those who have yet to decide
[1:34] with more inclusive strategies and a
[1:38] broader vision.
[1:39] >> And New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who
[1:42] has also been a reluctant convert to the
[1:44] Clinton cause, sounded today like a true
[1:46] believer. the best candidate since
[1:49] Kennedy. I mean, what more would you
[1:51] need to be a good candidate? He's very
[1:53] smart. He's very experienced.
[1:57] >> While they're tidying up the hole for
[1:59] tomorrow, the party leaders are
[2:01] preparing to spend the week making true
[2:03] believers of all the delegates.
[2:05] >> They love this ticket because we
[2:07] Democrats are tired of losing
[2:09] presidential elections. We don't intend
[2:11] to lose in November.
[2:13] They hope to use the next four nights of
[2:15] TV coverage to get America to stop,
[2:18] look, and listen to Bill Clinton.
[2:20] >> He's a leader of his party. He's going
[2:21] to be the leader of this convention. In
[2:23] many ways, the way he leads the
[2:25] convention, he would hope to give
[2:26] examples of the way he would lead the
[2:28] country.
[2:29] >> Clinton knows his acceptance speech on
[2:31] Thursday night must be the speech of his
[2:33] life. He's still writing it, but you
[2:35] could get a sense of his direction today
[2:37] from his running mate. And Governor
[2:39] Clinton and I are doing our very best to
[2:42] present a clear choice to the American
[2:44] people so that we can as a nation break
[2:47] out of this rut that we have gotten into
[2:50] and start moving forward again. I think
[2:52] that's what it's all about.
[2:53] >> Four years ago, George Bush turned his
[2:55] campaign around with his thousand points
[2:57] of light speech at the Republican
[2:59] convention. This year here in New York,
[3:01] Bill Clinton will have to do at least as
[3:03] well. Bob,
[3:04] >> thank you, Dick. As for the CBS News New
[3:06] York Times poll released tonight, the
[3:08] bottom line is is that at this point it
[3:10] is anyone's election. So why are the
[3:12] Clinton people so happy? Well, Bill
[3:14] Plants on the floor of the garden with
[3:16] the answer to that, Bill.
[3:17] >> Well, Bob, chalk it up to a three-way
[3:19] race or to the very strange politics of
[3:21] this very strange presidential year, but
[3:24] voters are taking a closer look at the
[3:25] candidates earlier than they did four
[3:27] years ago. And that translates into bad
[3:29] news for Ross Perau, good news for Bill
[3:32] Clinton as people take a second look.
[3:35] If the presidential election were being
[3:37] held today, would you vote for George
[3:39] Bush, Bill Clinton, or Ross Perau?
[3:42] >> The president holds a slight lead over
[3:44] Clinton in a three-way race. But Perau
[3:46] has slipped into a distant third,
[3:48] exchanging places with Clinton, who was
[3:50] in that same spot three weeks ago. In a
[3:52] two-man race without Perau, Bush and
[3:55] Clinton are dead even. Clinton now
[3:58] scores well with Democrats, blacks,
[4:00] moderates, and liberals. He is
[4:02] competitive in the South and clearly
[4:04] behind only in the West. Most of this
[4:07] survey was completed after Clinton chose
[4:09] Al Gore as his running mate, though the
[4:11] announcement may have been too recent to
[4:13] be a factor in people's responses.
[4:16] President Bush's approval rating stands
[4:17] at 36% overall, essentially unchanged.
[4:21] But favorable views of Clinton have
[4:23] risen among all voters, even as
[4:25] unfavorable opinions of Perau have
[4:27] increased over the same 3-week period.
[4:29] As far as Perau is concerned, I feel
[4:32] uncomfortable because I don't understand
[4:34] what his issues are, what his platform
[4:36] is.
[4:36] >> Perau gets low marks on the issues while
[4:39] the president and especially Clinton are
[4:41] doing better.
[4:42] >> I think the waffling at the beginning
[4:44] did weaken his position in my opinion,
[4:46] but he seems to be, you know, we'll see.
[4:49] We're going to hear more about the
[4:50] issues I hope this week.
[4:51] >> Clinton and Perau do well, but not as
[4:53] well as the president when voters are
[4:55] asked if the candidates share their
[4:57] moral values.
[4:59] Twothirds of those we asked feel Clinton
[5:01] is mostly telling the truth but still
[5:03] hiding something about his personal
[5:05] life. Even so, most feel that they have
[5:08] no need to know about it. Now, if you
[5:11] ask the question straight out, who you
[5:13] going to vote for? Majority of people
[5:15] still say the president, but it's a
[5:17] smaller majority than in May. So, forget
[5:19] the actual numbers. It's the trend
[5:21] that's important. And that's good news
[5:22] for Bill Clinton, bad news for the
[5:24] president and Ross Perau. Bob.
[5:26] >> All right. Thank you, Bill. The official
[5:28] proceedings at a convention take place
[5:30] here, of course, inside the hall, but
[5:32] what happens in here is only one part of
[5:34] what happens at a convention. We're
[5:36] going to get a report now on what's
[5:37] happening outside, and we go to Regina
[5:39] >> Blake.
[5:45] tell the truth about
[5:50] I'm going to let it shine.
[5:52] >> Demonstrations are as much a part of
[5:54] Democratic convention history as
[5:56] nominating speeches. Whether it's
[5:58] homelessness, abortion, AIDS, or any of
[6:00] the other myriad of special interests,
[6:02] these groups see the gathering of
[6:04] delegates as a way to make their case.
[6:06] >> The protest group's agenda is the same
[6:07] as the politicians. They want to
[6:09] mobilize their base. They want to
[6:11] energize their constituency. and they
[6:12] want to raise a little money.
[6:13] >> This weekend preceding the official
[6:15] start of the convention has seen little
[6:17] in the form of large organized
[6:18] demonstrations and there have been few
[6:21] confrontations.
[6:22] >> WHAT DO WE WANT?
[6:23] >> JUSTICE.
[6:24] >> WHEN DO WE WANT IT?
[6:26] >> BUT WITH 20 groups holding official
[6:28] protest permits, things could change.
[6:30] And New York's police department is
[6:31] ready with 2400 officers assigned just
[6:34] to the convention. We've got
[6:36] legitimately everything else will be
[6:38] here from the bomb disposal truck to
[6:40] emergency service vehicles to light
[6:41] trucks. Every piece of technology that
[6:44] we have, some of it will be at this
[6:46] convention.
[6:46] >> Even though few delegates will actually
[6:48] see many of the demonstrations,
[6:50] organizers for more mainstream issues
[6:52] like the homeless believe their efforts
[6:54] do serve a purpose. It will drive home
[6:56] the point to Bill Clinton and Al Gore
[6:59] that people are desperately concerned
[7:00] about this problem, that it should be at
[7:02] the top of their agenda and that it
[7:03] won't be just written off as yet another
[7:04] special interest. While most here don't
[7:07] expect to see the intense demonstrations
[7:10] that marked conventions of the 60s and
[7:12] 70s, special interest groups will play a
[7:14] role, if only because like the
[7:16] politicians, they've learned to use the
[7:18] mass media to get out their message.
[7:20] Bob,
[7:21] >> thank you. Regina, on Wednesday, the
[7:23] leader of the African National Congress,
[7:25] Nelson Mandela, is due to attend the
[7:27] convention. He'll be a guest of party
[7:29] chairman Ron Brown. He is not scheduled
[7:31] to speak. Still ahead on tonight's CBS
[7:33] Evening News, the latest on the other
[7:35] two presidential campaigns as our
[7:37] coverage of the Democratic National
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[9:23] >> Well, if this was good news day for Bill
[9:25] Clinton, it was catch-up day for Ross
[9:26] Perau, who stirred up that storm
[9:28] yesterday at the NAACP convention when
[9:30] he referred to the delegates as you
[9:32] people. Phraseology that numerous
[9:34] delegates called insensitive and
[9:36] offensive. Today the message from
[9:38] Perau's people was he didn't mean to
[9:40] offend and didn't realize until later
[9:42] that he had. Bill Lagatuda is covering
[9:44] the Perau campaign. He is joining us now
[9:46] from Dallas. Bill, is this considered a
[9:48] serious problem amongst the Perau
[9:50] people? Perhaps uh perhaps not. They
[9:53] went out of their way today to repeat
[9:54] that Mr. Perau had apologized to the
[9:57] delegates yesterday, saying he didn't
[9:58] mean to uh didn't mean to insult anyone
[10:01] by his remarks. Uh his Democratic
[10:03] opponents today were unusually kind to
[10:06] Perau. uh conceding that it was probably
[10:08] more of a a slip of the tongue rather
[10:10] than anything racist. Few people have
[10:12] suggested that it was in fact or were in
[10:14] fact racist remarks, but clearly they
[10:17] were inappropriate. And I think this uh
[10:18] points up better than anything the
[10:20] danger that a nonprofessional a
[10:22] non-politician has uh when playing ball
[10:25] in the big leagues. Perau is uh
[10:26] continues to be disdainful of the
[10:28] professional political process.
[10:30] Yesterday, he told the delegates down in
[10:32] Nashville he does not employ a speech
[10:33] writer after he made those off-the cuff
[10:36] comments to them. Many of them who are
[10:38] angry with him afterwards conceded maybe
[10:40] he should hire one. Bob, you know,
[10:42] already up here we're getting reports
[10:44] that some of Perau's advisers are making
[10:46] clear that they had nothing to do with
[10:48] this speech, which I suppose is natural
[10:50] in any campaign when things go wrong.
[10:52] What about the reports though that there
[10:53] is some squabbbling amongst the advisers
[10:55] in the campaign? Well, the uh publicly
[10:58] they deny this of course, but you're
[11:00] quite right. You do get the sense that
[11:02] they must cringe back here in Dallas
[11:04] when Perau does speak off the top of his
[11:05] head. Uh he has hired some of the most
[11:08] seasoned Washington veterans to run his
[11:09] campaign. But inside the headquarters
[11:12] here, they're wondering how well he's
[11:14] going to take direction. As as we've
[11:16] said before, he writes his own speeches.
[11:18] Occasionally, he's booked himself on
[11:20] television programs. They are trying to
[11:22] uh change this campaign into a more
[11:24] smooth uh more efficiently run operation
[11:27] uh as they as they begin their full
[11:30] thrust ahead toward the White House. One
[11:32] of the things they've tried to do is
[11:33] make Perau a little bit more accessible
[11:34] to the media, but he doesn't like that.
[11:36] They held a little press conference with
[11:38] him at one of the local airports the
[11:40] other day. We lobbed a few tough
[11:41] questions at him and Perau became
[11:43] irritable and left. So, uh you do get
[11:46] the sense that Perau does not like being
[11:48] told what to do. he may have to take a
[11:50] little bit more direction if he hopes to
[11:52] be considered a serious candidate as the
[11:54] summer progresses.
[11:55] >> All right, thank you very much, Bill.
[11:57] While the Democrats are preparing for a
[11:59] noisy 4-day party here in New York,
[12:01] President Bush is spending a mostly
[12:03] quiet weekend away from Washington.
[12:05] Randall Kingston now reports from Kenny
[12:07] Bunkport.
[12:08] >> President Bush is deliberately
[12:09] maintaining a low profile at the
[12:11] Democratic National Convention gets
[12:13] underway. This morning, Mr. Bush played
[12:15] an early round of golf, attended church
[12:17] with members of his family, including
[12:19] his ailing mother, then back on his
[12:21] speedboat. He spent 15 hours on the
[12:24] water and the golf course out of earshot
[12:26] of reporters question since beginning
[12:28] his Kenny Bunkport vacation late Friday
[12:30] afternoon. But not all the GOP leaders
[12:32] are on the sidelines today. The
[12:34] Republican national chairman blasted the
[12:36] Clinton Gore team.
[12:38] >> Bill Clinton is the failed governor of a
[12:40] small state. It's as simple as that.
[12:42] Democrats expect the GOP rhetoric to get
[12:44] a lot hotter if the economy worsens, and
[12:46] they are predicting Vice President Dan
[12:48] Quail will fire most of the shots.
[12:50] >> I mean, what else are they going to do
[12:52] with Dan Quail? He's the attack dog. Uh
[12:56] he's got to get in there and carry all
[12:58] of Bush's trash for him. Uh because that
[13:01] way Bush can look presidential.
[13:04] >> Mr. Bush spends another day in Kenny
[13:05] Bunkport before heading to California to
[13:07] try to stop the stampede of Bush
[13:09] supporters to Ross Barau. Then to
[13:11] Wyoming and more fishing, this time with
[13:13] Secretary of State James Baker, who
[13:15] insists there are no plans for him to
[13:17] resign and take over the Bush
[13:18] re-election campaign this year. Randall
[13:21] Kingston, CBS News, Kenny Bunkport.
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[15:09] Their secret tonight.
[15:13] >> The leader of the world's Roman
[15:15] Catholics is in a hospital in Rome
[15:17] tonight. Pope John Paul revealed he was
[15:18] ailing only hours before he was
[15:20] hospitalized. Bert Quinn reports.
[15:24] >> Pope John Paul II stunned the faithful
[15:27] in St. Peter Square today, letting them
[15:29] into what he called a secret. He was
[15:31] going into the hospital for tests.
[15:34] I ask your prayers, the pontiff said, so
[15:36] that the Lord is near to me with his
[15:38] help.
[15:40] >> And this evening, the 72-year-old Polish
[15:42] Pope entered Sacred Heart Catholic
[15:44] University in Rome to determine the
[15:46] cause of what his aids call modest pain
[15:50] in or near the small intestine. John
[15:53] Paul was shot in the lower stomach by a
[15:55] wouldbe assassin 11 years ago. And
[15:58] conceivably there could be a connection,
[16:00] but a CAT scan and other tests have to
[16:02] be made before doctors can be sure
[16:04] what's causing the problem and if
[16:06] surgery is needed to correct it. The
[16:09] Pope generally gives the impression of
[16:11] robust good health. But his frequent
[16:14] trips to the far corners of the world
[16:16] are grueling enough to wear out a much
[16:18] younger man.
[16:20] John Paul was scheduled to start a
[16:21] vacation in the Italian Alps on
[16:23] Wednesday. His spokesman says he
[16:25] probably won't have to cancel it, only
[16:27] delay it, and hopefully by days, not
[16:30] weeks. Bert Quint, CBS News, Rome.
[16:34] Israel's Prime Minister designate Yetac
[16:36] Rabine disclosed his cabinet choices
[16:38] today. He presented the names to his
[16:40] Labor Party for approval. Black Labine.
[16:42] His appointees favor talking peace with
[16:44] the Arabs and include, as expected,
[16:46] Shimon Perez as foreign minister. In
[16:50] what was once Yugoslavia, shelling
[16:52] resumed tonight in an embattled suburb
[16:54] of Saravo. Earlier, however, there was a
[16:56] brief truce in Dooria to allow the
[16:59] delivery of the first food in weeks. Bob
[17:02] Simon reports.
[17:05] The first convoy to Debrinia passed
[17:07] through a no man's land which may be the
[17:08] most heavily contested stretch of Europe
[17:11] since the Second World War. Debrinia has
[17:13] been a suburb under siege. A complex of
[17:16] the most ordinary apartment houses
[17:18] imaginable, blasted by tank and
[17:20] artillery fire for 71 days. 71 days with
[17:25] no fresh supplies. Even as the UN trucks
[17:28] arrived, women were foraging through an
[17:30] overgrown lot for lunch. An old man took
[17:33] an incredulous peek out of his window.
[17:35] Whole families took to their balconies
[17:38] to greet the blue helmeted heroes. The
[17:40] Serbs signed off on a 5-hour ceasefire
[17:43] to let the convoy in. UN spokesman
[17:46] called the relief effort the most
[17:48] important breakthrough of their Bosnia
[17:49] operation. Even if the amount of food
[17:51] they delivered today was largely
[17:53] symbolic.
[17:54] >> We didn't have anything to eat. We have
[17:56] to eat some grass here. It was very
[17:58] dangerous to come out and take because
[18:00] of many snipers and the grenades.
[18:03] >> 13year-old Amir Tutic introduces his
[18:05] family. His sister 9 years old.
[18:08] >> She she celebrated her birthday in the
[18:10] war. And this is my mother and this is
[18:14] my neighbors. They lived with me all the
[18:16] time here and they were suffering like
[18:19] me all the time.
[18:24] >> UN troops weren't the only visitors
[18:26] today. Franciscan priest came in to
[18:28] offer a reququum for the dead. The
[18:31] service attended by Muslims and Orthodox
[18:33] as well. The many new graveyards here
[18:35] are equally ecumenical. People are
[18:38] buried wherever there's a patch of grass
[18:40] as close to the houses as possible.
[18:44] Debr has come to be known here as Sieo's
[18:47] ghetto. And by early afternoon, those
[18:50] invisible gates were once again shut
[18:52] tight. As soon as the UN pulled out, the
[18:55] siege closed in again with no notion of
[18:58] when another convoy may be permitted.
[19:00] But people needed the relief and the
[19:01] brief respit they received today. The
[19:04] battle of Debrinia is far from over. Bob
[19:07] Simon, CBS News, Sievo.
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[20:53] Two conventions ago, the Democrats heard
[20:55] a warning in San Francisco. And that is
[20:58] where we begin tonight's Sunday cover.
[21:00] The inner cities. Can they ever be what
[21:03] they once were?
[21:08] >> There is despair, Mr. President.
[21:12] in the faces that you don't see, in the
[21:15] places that you don't visit in your
[21:18] shining city. But there's another city.
[21:22] In this part of the city, there are more
[21:24] poor than ever, more families in
[21:27] trouble, more and more people who need
[21:29] help but can't find it.
[21:31] >> In his keynote address in 1984, Governor
[21:33] Mario Cuomo warned his party about the
[21:36] plight of the inner city, the economy,
[21:37] and social unrest. Now 8 years later he
[21:41] is saying we told you so.
[21:43] >> The way I see it is the Democrats don't
[21:45] have the right to lose. We blew the last
[21:48] few elections and the country is in
[21:52] peril as a result of it. We knew in 1980
[21:55] better in 1984 and certainly by 1988
[21:59] that this ship was headed straight for
[22:02] the rocks.
[22:03] >> Rocks that have taken the form of
[22:04] homelessness, poverty, unemployment,
[22:07] drugs, crime, and violence. all across
[22:09] the country, especially in urban
[22:11] America.
[22:12] >> The fact is that that which has been
[22:14] done to New York has been done by the
[22:16] federal government. They've withdrawn
[22:18] from our cities over the last 10, 12
[22:20] years.
[22:20] >> But there is a dilemma. A candidate
[22:22] cannot focus on inner cities alone if he
[22:25] expects to develop the kind of broad
[22:27] voter base needed to win the election.
[22:29] Well, you have a candidate, Bill
[22:31] Clinton, who by self-description is
[22:34] trying to broaden the base of the party,
[22:36] which invariably means reaching out to
[22:39] middle class and suburban voters. And
[22:41] when you do that, uh, invariably you
[22:43] have that clash, uh, continuation in
[22:46] some way of class warfare.
[22:48] >> I think that, uh, what we need in this
[22:50] country and what the Democrats, I think,
[22:53] can provide is a national recovery
[22:55] program.
[22:55] >> It's not fair to bring those those
[22:57] homeless here
[22:58] >> on the streets. You don't hear fancy
[23:00] talk about recovery programs. Inner city
[23:03] dwellers tell you what they want is
[23:04] simple. They just want their communities
[23:07] back.
[23:07] >> I am very disillusioned with both
[23:09] parties, you know, and give us back the
[23:11] quality of life that we used to have
[23:14] here in the city. How about a little bit
[23:16] of that? How why do I have to walk down
[23:17] the street in fear?
[23:19] >> Most of the visitors who come here this
[23:20] week won't have that worry. Extra police
[23:23] will be watching most of the areas where
[23:25] they'll be. Tour guide James Shinton
[23:27] says the visitors are lucky they can
[23:30] leave.
[23:31] >> When a person comes from outside the
[23:32] city and has to deal with the people who
[23:34] live here, they can't quite believe
[23:36] they're real. The place is tough.
[23:39] >> Tough or not, Mario Cuomo says New York
[23:41] is a lesson for the delegates and for
[23:44] all Americans.
[23:45] >> New York City is the country's past. New
[23:50] York City is also the country's future.
[23:52] You can see everything that's good,
[23:55] everything that's great, everything
[23:57] that's stupendous, and everything that's
[24:00] failed. We do not have the right to
[24:02] lose. We owe it to the country to win.
[24:06] We will this time.
[24:08] Of course, Ross Perau and George Bush
[24:10] might not necessarily agree with that,
[24:12] but whoever wins this election, the
[24:14] problems of the cities will be there
[24:16] waiting for them.
[24:27] Suddenly, vitamins are all over the
[24:29] news,
[24:29] >> and two out of three adults don't get
[24:31] all that's recommended in their diets.
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[24:37] essential vitamins.
[24:39] >> With all the vitamin, I'm eating Total.
[24:42] >> Morning Breath.
[24:43] >> Soon as I have my coffee, it's all gone.
[24:45] >> Whether you admit it or not, it's a
[24:47] problem. Okay, I have morning breath,
[24:49] but it doesn't bother anyone.
[24:51] >> Don't be so sure.
[24:53] >> Mine's not so bad.
[24:54] >> Morning breath not as bad as you think.
[24:56] It's worse. So, get Sculp. Its two
[24:59] powerful ingredients kill 90% of the
[25:01] bacteria that cause morning breath.
[25:05] Was my morning breath really that bad?
[25:07] There's no denying morning breath. So,
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[25:12] >> What if you could get the fiber you need
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[25:41] including ticks that carry Lyme disease.
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[25:46] prevents these pests from living on your
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[25:55] good for your pet.
[25:59] Thousands of Democrats are getting a
[26:01] real taste of the big apple. This week,
[26:03] New York City has put out the welcome
[26:04] sign and dressed itself up as only this
[26:06] city can. Bill G now samples some of the
[26:10] city's offerings, from the edible to the
[26:12] exotic.
[26:14] On the eve of the Democratic National
[26:16] Convention, New York is welcoming
[26:18] conventioneers with open arms and open
[26:21] palms.
[26:22] >> Ladies and gentlemen, right inside,
[26:24] >> the convention is supposed to bring in
[26:25] hundreds of millions of dollars, and
[26:28] entrepreneurs throughout the city are
[26:30] rising to the occasion.
[26:31] >> What is this?
[26:32] >> This is the the Ross Perau sandwich. Two
[26:35] slices of rye bread, mustard, and plenty
[26:37] of hot air. But he also ran Jerry Brown.
[26:39] I gave him a ham and baloney sandwich
[26:41] because he's a big ham and he's full of
[26:43] baloney. Most definitely.
[26:45] >> This is the Bill Clinton
[26:48] >> pastrami. Is it
[26:49] >> corn beef?
[26:50] >> Corn beef.
[26:51] >> And Governor Clinton gets a nice big gob
[26:53] of mayonnaise.
[26:54] >> New Yorkers never eat corn beef with
[26:56] white bread
[26:57] >> and mayonnaise.
[26:58] >> I intend to send this to him at the
[27:00] convention when he makes his acceptance
[27:02] speech. We're going to give him this
[27:03] sandwich. This businessman has come up
[27:05] with a practical money maker tailor made
[27:08] for New York.
[27:09] >> We're going to have a traveling vest
[27:10] mobile as we call it from which we are
[27:12] going to make available to them at a
[27:14] nominal charge the rental of bulletproof
[27:17] vests. We're going to also be
[27:19] distributing free first aid kits
[27:21] including instructions which will be
[27:22] inside on how to treat bullet and knife
[27:24] wounds while they're in New York City.
[27:26] >> Don't you just love New York? This small
[27:29] business has unveiled a whole new
[27:32] marketing strategy. Is this a special
[27:34] outfit for the uh Democratic convention?
[27:36] >> I'm doing this right now for the
[27:38] Democratic convention.
[27:39] >> What do you think? The delegates are
[27:40] here to have fun, too, as well as do a
[27:42] little business.
[27:43] >> Well, you you heard the old saying, all
[27:45] work and no play makes a dull boy.
[27:48] >> All right.
[27:49] >> And what is Miss Glam Amazon looking for
[27:51] in a candidate? It's
[27:52] >> like foreign policy the most important
[27:54] thing to you or family values or
[27:58] >> uh family values are the most important.
[28:01] Last week, the mayor even unveiled a new
[28:03] motto for the city. New York, it's all
[28:06] yours.
[28:14] We cast a wide net here in our search
[28:16] for news. Later tonight, Bill Plant with
[28:18] the CBS Sunday night news. Coverage of
[28:20] the Democratic Convention begins
[28:22] tomorrow with CBS This Morning, and Dan
[28:24] Rather will have live coverage of the
[28:26] convention Monday night beginning at
[28:28] 9:30 p.m. Eastern time. I'm Bob Schaefer
[28:31] reporting from Madison Square Garden in
[28:33] New York. Good night.
[28:44] This is CBS
[28:47] every night and the issues that affect
[28:49] you every day. Eye on America, only on
[28:52] the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.
[28:59] Coming up next, police recover the body
[29:01] of JJ Brings Plenty, buried in a
[29:03] suitcase in Nebraska.