CBS Evening News open - 1977-10-21

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[0:03] This is the CBS Evening News with Walter

[0:06] Kronite.

[0:07] >> Good evening. President Carter has begun

[0:09] a cross-country weekend visit to five

[0:11] states. This afternoon in Michigan, he

[0:13] heard problems of the urban poor. And

[0:15] tonight in Iowa after a fundraising

[0:17] dinner, he spends the night on a farm.

[0:19] Bob Schaefer reports from Detroit.

[0:23] The president came to Detroit to learn

[0:25] about problems of the urban poor and a

[0:27] small but vocal band of people

[0:29] demonstrating for more jobs showed up

[0:31] outside the hall where he was speaking.

[0:33] Inside the atmosphere was more

[0:35] restrained. He said he had come to

[0:37] listen and what he heard about was the

[0:39] misery of being out of work.

[0:41] >> I don't feel much talking about energy

[0:43] and foreign policy. I'm concerned about

[0:45] how am I going to live? I can't uh I

[0:47] can't be too concerned about other

[0:49] things when I have a daughter to raise

[0:51] and I don't have a job and I'm 56 years

[0:54] old.

[0:55] >> You know in your own capacity what you

[0:57] could do for poor people in this

[0:58] country. So I'm speaking for the poor

[1:01] people all over the country and um we

[1:04] appeal to you for your help. Thank you

[1:07] very much.

[1:14] What makes you so able to express

[1:16] yourself is because you've been there

[1:19] sir

[1:20] >> as a migrant worker

[1:22] >> and you see at first hand what

[1:25] a job means first of all what a low paid

[1:28] job means secondly what an absence of

[1:31] housing means and even not having a home

[1:34] community aggravates all those other

[1:37] problems. my family look at me as a

[1:40] failure. Uh it's no way for me to go

[1:43] what I'm going to do, you know. But now

[1:46] we're asking, you know, that maybe we

[1:50] can put someone up there in Washington

[1:52] who understand what's going on down here

[1:55] in these areas. And the only way that

[1:57] you can really find an answer is to ask

[2:00] the hungry man what it feels like.

[2:03] >> Mr. Carter seemed touched by the

[2:04] stories, but he proposed nothing new.

[2:06] Rather, he reviewed programs and

[2:08] proposals already announced. He

[2:10] underlined his pledge to reduce

[2:11] unemployment to 5% by 1981, but stressed

[2:15] there will be no quick solutions.

[2:17] >> We've got a long way to go. We we've

[2:20] made some progress, and I don't want uh

[2:22] you to think that I believe that all the

[2:26] questions have been answered.

[2:27] >> For the most part, this was an afternoon

[2:29] of listening for the president. But

[2:30] tonight, he'll be doing some talking. in

[2:32] a toughly worded speech in De Moine,

[2:33] Iowa, he's making the strongest pitch

[2:35] yet for passage of his energy program.

[2:38] In that speech, he will say that America

[2:40] must now recognize that the age of cheap

[2:42] oil and gas is over. But he will also

[2:44] say unless Congress comes to grips with

[2:46] the energy problem, the nation will

[2:48] someday face a catastrophe. Bob

[2:50] Schaefer, CBS News, Detroit.

[2:53] >> In many ways, Detroit exemplifies the

[2:56] worst of the big city problems as well

[2:58] as the programs designed to solve them.

[3:00] More on that from Chris Kelly.