CBS Evening News - 1992-08-19

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[0:02] Ross Perau waiting in the wings. He

[0:05] tells CBS News he's ready to run again

[0:07] for president, but there's a big if.

[0:10] Also, an exclusive CBS News interview

[0:12] with Barbara Bush. The first lady talks

[0:14] about abortion, family values, and her

[0:17] husband's health. Also, Eye on America.

[0:20] Tonight, a visit to Clarksdale,

[0:22] Mississippi to get a gut check from

[0:24] hardworking Americans on how they view

[0:26] the subject of family values.

[0:30] This is the CBS Evening News

[0:37] from the Astradom, Houston, Texas, and

[0:39] the Republican National Convention. Dan

[0:41] Rather reporting. Good evening.

[0:43] Independent Ross Perau confirmed today

[0:45] to CBS News that he is thinking again

[0:48] about running. Perau gave the

[0:50] confirmation to CBS News correspondent

[0:52] Scott P in Dallas.

[0:54] In an exclusive interview with CBS News,

[0:57] Ross Perau said late this afternoon he

[1:00] is standing by to reenter the race for

[1:02] president. Perau says he does not want

[1:04] to run, but might be forced to if the

[1:07] two established parties do not propose

[1:09] what he calls hard-minded solutions to

[1:12] the nation's economic problems. If both

[1:15] parties refused to listen to the people,

[1:18] if both parties continue to listen to

[1:21] the special interest that gave them the

[1:22] pack money, then if the volunteers came

[1:25] together another time and said, "You got

[1:27] to do it." We'd have a spirited

[1:29] conversation. It would be

[1:32] un unforgivable if neither party would

[1:35] face these issues when the people want

[1:37] them faced.

[1:38] >> You're available. I only less like a

[1:42] fire extinguisher, you might say. Uh,

[1:45] you know, if all else fails.

[1:46] >> Perau's own plan in book form is being

[1:49] shipped to stores today. It opens with a

[1:51] warning. Our nation may confront a

[1:54] situation similar to the Great

[1:56] Depression. Perau proposes balancing the

[1:58] federal budget in 5 years with an

[2:01] aggressive combination of tax increases

[2:03] and spending cuts, including raising the

[2:06] top tax rate from 31 to 33%. a 50 cent

[2:10] perp gallon gasoline tax increase, an

[2:12] order to federal agencies to cut

[2:14] spending 15% and increases in Medicare

[2:18] taxes and premiums. It is a 118page

[2:22] prescription that many analysts believe

[2:24] is too bitter to swallow.

[2:26] >> Well, a candidate of major party that

[2:27] runs on a platform like that would lose.

[2:30] >> Perau is still funding offices in all 50

[2:33] states and has paid for a new series of

[2:35] TV commercials. He says he's receiving

[2:38] thousands of calls and letters urging

[2:40] him to get back in the race.

[2:41] >> My sense is when he dropped out, he got

[2:43] a lot more beat up than he thought he

[2:44] would. Uh I don't think he wants to have

[2:46] his epitap being that he was a quitter.

[2:48] I think he has several things that are

[2:49] coming forth, his book on issues and

[2:50] what have you. And I think he I think he

[2:52] liked the limelight. So my sense is

[2:54] he'll get back into it.

[2:55] >> More than 5 million people signed parole

[2:57] petitions and today he says he wants to

[3:00] protect their interests. only if they're

[3:02] ignored

[3:04] uh would you maybe run into what I call

[3:06] the escape hatch possibility but I

[3:09] consider that one in a thousand at this

[3:11] point.

[3:11] >> No one can be sure where this is all

[3:13] leading but by midepptember Perau will

[3:16] almost certainly be on the ballot in all

[3:18] 50 states with commercials on the shelf

[3:21] and his volunteer network still largely

[3:24] intact. Scott Py, CBS News, Dallas. Here

[3:29] at the Astrodome, President Bush and

[3:31] Vice President Quaily will be officially

[3:33] renominated tonight. Today, the Bush

[3:35] Quail campaign was trying to put down a

[3:37] story started by the president himself

[3:39] about a possible shakeup in Mr. Bush's

[3:42] cabinet. CBS News White House

[3:43] correspondent Susan Spencer has our

[3:45] report.

[3:48] The ticket rode a mockup victory train

[3:50] into a GOP gala today, hopeful that the

[3:53] possibility of riding a real one in

[3:54] November is improving as the drum beat

[3:57] of Clinton Congress bashing rolls

[3:59] merrily along.

[4:01] >> The status quo is under siege and the

[4:04] only way to break the deadlock in

[4:05] Washington is to clear out the dead wood

[4:09] on Capitol Hill. And I'm going to do

[4:11] what Harry Truman did. take that case to

[4:13] the American people for a November

[4:16] decision.

[4:18] >> The public still views Mr. Bush

[4:19] considerably more negatively than it

[4:21] does to Governor Clinton. But CBS News

[4:23] overnight soundings find Clinton's

[4:25] negatives rising since the GOP artillery

[4:28] came out.

[4:29] >> Now, you know what Bill Clinton wants

[4:31] for agriculture? He wants more

[4:33] regulation, not less. Environmental laws

[4:37] that are less flexible and more

[4:39] burdensome. Clinton sounds like he

[4:41] doesn't think the public is going to buy

[4:43] it.

[4:44] >> They've been pretty rough the last two

[4:45] nights, but it's all they know to do.

[4:46] They they they can't run on their

[4:48] record. It's the worst economic record

[4:49] in 50 years. They don't have any new

[4:51] ideas. They're basically promising

[4:54] discover America if you give them a

[4:55] fourth straight term.

[4:56] >> Bush spokesman, meanwhile, were putting

[4:58] out a fire the president himself started

[5:00] when trying to sell the idea of change

[5:02] last night. He promised a cabinet

[5:04] shakeup should there be a second term.

[5:07] Not to imply, spokesman quickly said

[5:09] that there's anything wrong with the

[5:10] cabinet now.

[5:12] >> Well, the president's just pointing out

[5:13] the historical patterns that they're

[5:15] always turnovers in the second term.

[5:17] >> Housing Secretary Jack Kemp, who

[5:19] delivered a heartfelt speech on the

[5:21] president's behalf last night, was

[5:23] widely reported on the cabinet hit list.

[5:25] Mr. Bush called him this morning,

[5:28] >> said, "Please don't believe this uh

[5:29] stuff in the paper, and uh you've done a

[5:31] great job, and I want you to continue."

[5:33] So, I'm take the president to his word.

[5:34] The man who is supposed to prevent such

[5:36] snafuss arrived this afternoon. Jim

[5:39] Baker, still officially Secretary of

[5:41] State, but unofficial campaign zar, is

[5:43] expected to oversee the final touches of

[5:46] the speech. It is said likely to include

[5:48] the president's version of why he broke

[5:51] his no new taxes pledge. But reporters

[5:54] are now being steered away from

[5:55] expecting any specific tax cut proposal

[5:58] or indeed anything very specific in this

[6:00] speech. The overriding idea, one source

[6:03] said, is quite simple. Make the country

[6:05] feel good about George Bush and very

[6:08] uneasy about Bill Clinton. Dan

[6:10] >> Susan, what's the read? How negative

[6:12] will the president be about Bill Clinton

[6:14] tomorrow night?

[6:15] >> Of course, the Bush campaign doesn't

[6:16] call this negative. It calls it defining

[6:18] the opposition. I think before this

[6:20] crowd, you're going to hear a lot of

[6:22] definition. The definition is going to

[6:23] be that Bill Clinton is your typical tax

[6:25] and spend liberal, that you can't trust

[6:27] him with your pocketbook, much less your

[6:29] country. uh family values will be thrown

[6:31] in to imply that Bill Clinton doesn't

[6:33] have any. I expect quite a bit of red

[6:34] meat.

[6:36] >> Can we expect specifics on what the

[6:38] president plans to do about business,

[6:39] jobs, and the economy?

[6:41] >> Well, that's got to be the other half of

[6:42] the equation. He has to reestablish his

[6:44] own credibility on the economy. He has

[6:46] to present what he has laughingly

[6:48] referred to as the vision thing because

[6:51] after four years, a lot of people feel

[6:53] like they don't understand what he sees

[6:55] for the future.

[6:56] >> Susan Spencer down on the floor. Thanks.

[6:58] The official theme here at the

[7:00] convention tonight is, as the

[7:02] Republicans put it, family values. Labor

[7:04] Secretary Lynn Martin will deliver the

[7:06] Bush nominating speech. Also addressing

[7:08] the convention, Marilyn Quail. But as

[7:10] Eric Inberg reports, the highlight

[7:12] tonight will be the speech by the most

[7:14] popular Republican in America.

[7:17] >> That most popular Republican is Barbara

[7:20] Bush. The last time I looked, M. Bush,

[7:22] your popularity uh standing with a

[7:25] public was maybe 40 to 50 points ahead

[7:27] of the president. No. Has he come to you

[7:29] for advice on how

[7:30] >> No. And that's so silly because uh of

[7:34] course you can be popular when you don't

[7:37] have to make any decisions when um

[7:41] you're you're sort of not a threat to

[7:42] anybody.

[7:44] Devoting herself to causes from

[7:46] illiteracy to child care, she has

[7:48] carefully avoided political conflict in

[7:50] the past. She's been more a sturdy

[7:53] helpmate than a political battler.

[7:58] >> But as the GOP confronted the abortion

[8:00] issue again, Mrs. Bush offered abortion

[8:03] rights advocates the only encouraging

[8:06] words they heard from the White House.

[8:08] with so many uh women in the Republican

[8:11] party now taking a pro-choice position,

[8:13] >> which is great. I mean, that's

[8:15] >> what do you what do you say to them? Uh

[8:16] is there room for them in this party?

[8:18] >> Absolutely. We're the convention that is

[8:21] allowing pro-choice and pro-life people

[8:24] to speak. We're inclusive. We're not

[8:27] exclusive.

[8:28] >> While sounding like an abortion rights

[8:30] supporter, Mrs. Bush argues that the

[8:32] focus should be elsewhere. But I think

[8:35] we should be talking about the fact that

[8:38] there's no such thing as safe sex and

[8:40] that children should abstain and we

[8:43] should be teaching our children early

[8:45] that there are family values that are

[8:47] very important.

[8:48] >> Beloved as the nation's grandmother and

[8:51] ghostriter for first dog Millie, she is

[8:53] also a savvy, sometimes tough political

[8:56] wife. But not as tough, she says, as

[8:59] Vanity Fair magazine portrayed her in a

[9:01] rare, uncomplentary article.

[9:04] A 1988 campaign staffer recalls that

[9:06] when she frowned, it had the capacity to

[9:08] send shutters through a lot of people.

[9:10] Wow.

[9:11] >> Is that the real Barbara Bush?

[9:12] >> That's the 1992

[9:15] political year. If you can't get to

[9:17] George Bush one way, knock his family.

[9:20] >> She scoffs at any talk of presidential

[9:22] health problems.

[9:24] >> Is his health

[9:25] >> great? Absolutely great.

[9:27] >> And yours? Well, mine is fabulous, but I

[9:31] mean, I'm not running the mile as fast

[9:32] as I used to. I've taken up golf, and

[9:36] I'm terrible, and it's one of my

[9:37] heartbreaks.

[9:39] >> She has a soft side, which comes across

[9:41] in her public events, but there's no

[9:43] mistaking she has a steely side as well.

[9:46] >> Very good.

[9:46] >> Is it true that your kids call you the

[9:48] enforcer?

[9:50] >> Probably. Not to my face, of course. No.

[9:54] Candidate wives will be in the thick of

[9:56] the campaign this fall as evidenced by

[9:58] the many attacks made on Hillary Clinton

[10:00] here this week. And the Republicans are

[10:03] moving Barbara Bush out to a new

[10:05] partisan role as a symbol of what they

[10:08] say traditional attitudes toward

[10:10] families are in America. Dan, thanks

[10:13] Eric. Still ahead on the CBS Evening

[10:14] News Tonight, the United States and its

[10:16] allies prepared to take more Iraqi

[10:19] airspace. That story when the CBS News

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[11:09] and vegetables. Beta carotene.

[11:11] >> Me too. In fact, I'm having some right

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[11:34] >> Of course,

[11:39] >> there is news quite a bit of it beyond

[11:40] this convention tonight. The United

[11:42] States, Britain, and France have

[11:43] reportedly drawn up an ultimatum, a new

[11:45] one for Saddam Hussein. stop attacking

[11:48] Shiite rebels or we'll shoot down your

[11:50] war planes, but a spokesman for

[11:52] President Bush says there is no final

[11:55] agreement to put the plan into action.

[11:56] David Martin at the Pentagon has the

[11:58] latest.

[12:00] British warplanes were getting ready

[12:02] today to return to the Persian Gulf to

[12:03] help enforce the no-fly zone the US and

[12:06] its allies are about to create to

[12:08] protect the Shiites of southern Iraq.

[12:10] With a similar no-fly rule already in

[12:12] effect in the north, that does not leave

[12:14] Saddam Hussein much country to call his

[12:17] own. There is no question the US and its

[12:19] allies have decided to take a harder

[12:21] line on enforcing the UN sanctions

[12:23] against Iraq. The question is why now?

[12:27] >> Iraqi officials claim it's all a George

[12:29] Bush make my reelection day campaign.

[12:32] They are looking for a provocative

[12:33] action to give them protect for a

[12:37] military action and this is to boost the

[12:41] re reelection of uh Mr. Bush.

[12:44] >> But George Bush is not calling the shots

[12:45] by himself.

[12:46] >> The view taken in Paris by President

[12:48] Meterron and by me is equally as strong

[12:51] as that of uh President Bush in

[12:53] Washington. President Metron and I don't

[12:55] have elections. Saddam brought this new

[12:57] hardline upon himself by, among other

[13:00] things, refusing to let UN inspectors

[13:02] enter his agriculture ministry last

[13:04] month. The standoff was allowed to drag

[13:06] on so long that there was more than a

[13:08] little truth to what Democrats were

[13:10] saying.

[13:10] >> If President Bush and Vice President

[13:13] Quail are such whizzes in foreign

[13:17] policy, why is it that Saddam Hussein is

[13:22] thumbming his nose at the entire world?

[13:25] In fact, Saddam is doing more than just

[13:27] thumbming his nose. His thugs are

[13:29] actually shooting at UN personnel.

[13:31] >> It was a lot of bullets and we were very

[13:33] lucky. There were three people in the

[13:34] car

[13:36] and uh I was the only one hit.

[13:39] >> George Bush and Saddam Hussein may be on

[13:42] a collision course in the middle of this

[13:43] presidential election, but it is Saddam

[13:46] who ultimately controls that course. He

[13:48] is the one who must decide whether to

[13:50] comply with or defy the UN resolutions.

[13:54] David Martin, CBS News, the Pentagon.

[13:57] >> There's more CBS news straight ahead

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[15:55] >> nominate Bill to be their candidate for

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[16:00] >> Some good news about the economy made it

[16:03] into the astrodome today after the

[16:05] tremor of yesterday about housing

[16:07] construction being down. The government

[16:09] reported today that the US trade deficit

[16:12] fell last month as exports, it is said,

[16:15] hit a record high. More US exports could

[16:18] mean more jobs for Americans. Residents

[16:21] of Anchorage, Alaska, had a job today,

[16:23] cleaning up after a volcano. The

[16:25] eruption of Mount Spur covered the city

[16:27] with gritty ash. The volcano some 80 mi

[16:30] west of Anchorage erupted yesterday,

[16:32] sending a plume of ash and smoke more

[16:35] than 10 miles into the sky. In

[16:38] California, the problem is brush fires

[16:40] and blistering heat. Correspondent Bill

[16:42] Lagatuda reports. Californians are

[16:44] looking for a break in this long torid

[16:47] summer.

[16:48] It's been so hot in California and so

[16:51] dry lately. It's a wonder more of the

[16:53] state is not on fire. Tonight, 10,000

[16:56] acres of forest land in Northern

[16:58] California are still burning. And the

[17:00] heat wave is making the firefighting a

[17:03] brutal job. Temperatures are in the

[17:05] 100s. Humidity barely 5%.

[17:08] >> You got to hook a hold on right there.

[17:10] >> Today, people were evacuated near the

[17:12] small town of Murphy's. More than a

[17:14] dozen buildings have burned

[17:17] in Southern California. Paying attention

[17:19] in school was tougher than usual today.

[17:22] It was over a hundred here, too. And

[17:24] many classrooms are without air

[17:26] conditioning. This is how some teachers

[17:28] were forced to solve the problem.

[17:30] >> Feel better?

[17:31] >> Yeah,

[17:32] >> better. It's like the sun is right in

[17:34] front of your face.

[17:35] >> Very hot. I mean, very hot.

[17:38] >> It is so hot in the room, I can't sit

[17:40] for more than 5 minutes myself.

[17:43] >> There is not enough money in the budget

[17:45] to buy more air conditioners, and some

[17:47] principals are giving up, letting the

[17:49] kids out early. Head to the beach for

[17:51] relief. This week, some of them were

[17:53] closed because of pollution, though most

[17:56] will open by the weekend, and just in

[17:58] time. Lately here, there's been a run on

[18:01] electric fans and waiting pools and

[18:04] frozen yogurt. It's hardly Houston style

[18:07] heat, and Californians do love the

[18:09] summer, but lately it's been a little

[18:12] much. Bill Lagatuda, CBS News, Los

[18:15] Angeles.

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[20:19] Some top Republicans are already getting

[20:21] themselves in position for the 1996

[20:24] presidential campaign. A survey of the

[20:26] delegates here at this convention finds

[20:29] less than 6% want Secretary of State

[20:31] Baker to be the nominee next time

[20:33] around. Less than 10% like Vice

[20:36] President Quail. The big favorite

[20:38] supported by one out of three actual

[20:41] delegates is Housing Secretary Jack

[20:43] Kemp.

[20:45] My fellow Americans,

[20:47] the liberal Democrats just don't get it.

[20:54] >> Jack Kim fired his first shot last night

[20:56] in the 1996 race for president. So did

[20:59] Senator Phil Graham.

[21:02] So did Governor William.

[21:05] Pat Buchanan did it Monday night.

[21:09] Dan Quail will do it tomorrow night.

[21:13] In Houston this week, political agendas

[21:15] come at all different sizes. For while

[21:17] George Bush is fighting to get

[21:18] reelected, others are looking ahead. And

[21:21] of all potential presidential candidates

[21:23] in 96, Jack Kemp is the overwhelming

[21:26] favorite of delegates to this

[21:27] convention.

[21:28] >> Secretary of Housing

[21:29] >> and try to help.

[21:32] >> The popular housing secretary calls

[21:34] himself a bleeding heart conservative.

[21:36] He wants to lead a conservative war

[21:38] against poverty. But Kemp does not often

[21:41] have the ear of President Bush. And

[21:42] within the administration, there's not

[21:44] much support for his policies.

[21:46] >> The president doesn't say it the way I

[21:48] say it, but uh he's been there. He knows

[21:50] uh the problems. The leadership of the

[21:52] Democratic Congress is absolutely going

[21:54] to stonewall any attempt to give

[21:56] President Bush any any legislation that

[21:59] would do what has to be done for our

[22:01] inner cities.

[22:02] >> You heard Pat McCannan's speech on

[22:03] Monday night. It was a not just a world

[22:07] apart. It was a cosmos apart from Jack

[22:10] Kemp's speech. There is a religious war

[22:13] going on in this country. It is a

[22:16] cultural war as critical to the kind of

[22:20] nation we shall be as the cold war

[22:22] itself. For this war is for the soul of

[22:25] America.

[22:26] >> I I worry about the idea of some type of

[22:28] a giad between the left and the right.

[22:30] Uh some holy war. I like to think that

[22:32] while you can be conservative in your

[22:34] values, you can be progressive and

[22:36] reform-minded in your policies. And

[22:38] that's what uh I believe in. Sounds

[22:41] good. But can any candidate, even a Jack

[22:43] Kemp, who is popular within his own

[22:44] party, ever get the party's nomination

[22:47] talking that way?

[22:48] >> Ronnie Reagan got the nomination in 80

[22:50] and again in ' 84. Uh his conservatism

[22:53] was values as well as reform and change

[22:56] of the tax code. That's mine. Uh is it

[22:58] possible to be a good guy and finish

[23:01] first? I think a lot of people have

[23:02] proven that that's true.

[23:04] >> Coming up next from Houston, Eye on

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[25:18] Quote, "Family values." Republicans have

[25:21] made it a catchphrase of campaign 92,

[25:23] but what does it mean? For tonight's Eye

[25:26] on America, correspondent John

[25:27] Blackstone went out to talk to some

[25:29] families to find out what it is they

[25:32] really value.

[25:37] Good afternoon everybody and welcome to

[25:38] Clarksdale, Mississippi, the undisputed

[25:41] birthplace of the blues.

[25:49] >> This is what you call real life gut

[25:51] living here and Washington, you know, a

[25:54] beautiful city with all its um

[25:56] advantages, but this is just true real

[25:59] family life here. This is people. In

[26:01] Clarksdale, Mississippi, people

[26:03] sometimes get a little skeptical when

[26:05] politicians talk about family values.

[26:08] >> And I don't know whether that's more of

[26:09] a political ploy or whether that's the

[26:11] way they actually, you know, feel

[26:14] >> down at the Rest Haven restaurant, Doc

[26:17] Bar and Fat Dalton agree trouble in the

[26:19] family can cause trouble in the country.

[26:22] >> If you have a broken family, basically

[26:23] you have a family in poverty. You just

[26:25] can't have a one parent family can

[26:27] generate enough income to to stay out of

[26:30] poverty.

[26:31] >> Dalton wonders how any president can

[26:33] impose family values.

[26:35] >> He can encourage uh people to be more

[26:38] family conscious and have better morals,

[26:40] but no doing anything about it. He can't

[26:43] do any more about it than you can.

[26:45] >> Just around the corner, the Yates

[26:47] family, descendants of sharecroers, are

[26:49] gathering for a reunion.

[26:51] >> Come on.

[26:55] Folks here say politicians can do more

[26:57] than talk about family values.

[27:00] >> Show me family values. Show me that

[27:02] you're going to help me educate my

[27:03] child. Show me that you're going to put

[27:05] more money in in the school districts

[27:07] and in the school boards. Show me that

[27:09] >> there is one way that politics and

[27:11] family traditionally come together.

[27:14] >> Family has always been big. We stand

[27:16] strong, stand behind one another.

[27:18] >> Many inherit their politics from their

[27:20] parents.

[27:24] The South is a land of tradition, but

[27:26] when Ronald Reagan came along, a lot of

[27:28] white southern Democrats abandoned their

[27:30] traditions and voted Republican. The way

[27:32] those Reagan Democrats vote this

[27:34] election may well decide who will win

[27:36] the South. People like you.

[27:38] >> People like me.

[27:39] >> This year, Helen Sanders will return to

[27:41] her roots in the Democratic party.

[27:43] >> Because there's just too much poverty.

[27:45] There's too much hunger. There's too

[27:46] much There's too many problems going on

[27:48] in this country that we need to do

[27:50] something about. change. What are you ch

[27:53] What are you going to change to

[27:55] >> back at the rest haven though the

[27:56] Democrats don't have a chance?

[27:58] >> Bush has done a good job.

[28:00] >> Fact is, come election day, it's not so

[28:03] much family values that count here as

[28:05] family traditions in Clarksdale,

[28:08] Mississippi. This is John Blackstone for

[28:10] Eye on America.

[28:13] And that's part of our world tonight.

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