1972 Democratic National Convention - CBS News - Night 1 - 1 of 3
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[0:02] [Applause]
[0:13] [Music]
[0:19] [Music]
[0:33] CBS news coverage of campaign 72 the
[0:37] election
[0:39] year the Democratic National Convention
[0:42] tonight the opening session this
[0:46] broadcast is sponsored by Ford who
[0:49] invites you to see all the 72 better
[0:51] ideas at your Ford
[0:53] deers reporting from CBS News convention
[0:56] headquarters in Miami Beach here is
[0:58] correspondent water kronite
[1:00] good evening this is where it all begins
[1:03] within an hour the 36th Democratic
[1:05] National Convention crowding into this
[1:07] Hall at Miami Beach
[1:10] 5,100 delegates and alternates to shape
[1:12] their party to choose the man that they
[1:14] want to be president 80% of them have
[1:17] never attended a National Convention
[1:19] before and in a sense it's a convention
[1:22] new to the Democrats too a legacy of
[1:24] that 1968 Reform movement to make the
[1:27] party more democratic to Broad the
[1:30] participation take it down to the
[1:32] Grassroots tonight one out of every
[1:34] three delegates down there will be a
[1:36] woman one out of every four is under 31
[1:40] one out of every five is a black or
[1:42] other minority they are at the end of
[1:45] The Campaign 72 primary Trail stretching
[1:48] all the way back to New Hampshire in
[1:50] March back when few persons indeed would
[1:53] have given very much argument that
[1:54] Senator Edmund musky would be the man to
[1:57] step onto that Podium down there later
[1:59] this week accept the nomination and set
[2:02] out to try to rest the presidency from
[2:04] Richard Nixon but there were 23 pitfalls
[2:08] on that primary Trail 23 State elections
[2:12] and they took their toll as we all know
[2:14] so musky comes to this convention in
[2:16] fourth place in delegate