1988 Republican National Convention - CBS News - Night 4 - 1 of 3
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[1:00] CBS news coverage of campaign 888
[1:03] continues tonight from New Orleans the
[1:06] closing session of the Republican
[1:08] National Convention this portion is
[1:10] sponsored by AT&T from equipment to
[1:14] networking from computers to
[1:15] Communications AT&T the right
[1:19] choice from CBS News convention
[1:22] headquarters inside the Louisiana
[1:24] Superdome here is Dan
[1:27] Rather good evening suspense Under the
[1:30] Dome and of course a spectacular you've
[1:33] seen all the preliminaries tonight the
[1:35] main event this is the night George Bush
[1:38] accepts the Republican Presidential
[1:39] nomination and makes perhaps the most
[1:42] important speech of his political career
[1:45] speech in which he'll try to Define
[1:46] himself try to spell out what he would
[1:48] do as president and tries to put to rest
[1:51] all of those questions about does he
[1:52] have the steel to be a leader now this
[1:55] is supposed to be the night Bush moves
[1:57] into the spotlight and out of the r in
[2:00] Shadow that's part of what all the
[2:01] pageantry and the spectacle is to be
[2:03] about instead Bush finds himself under a
[2:06] cloud a cloud of controversy swirling
[2:09] over his running mate how and why he
[2:11] chose Senator Dan Quil of Indiana and
[2:14] quil's military service record questions
[2:17] are being raised over what influence of
[2:19] any was used to get Quail into the
[2:21] Indiana State National Guard at the
[2:24] height of the Vietnam war in the
[2:25] background is the fact that quail's
[2:27] family is perhaps the wealthiest and
[2:29] most influential in Indiana that
[2:31] controversy has turned this convention
[2:33] sort of upside down remember that
[2:35] conventions are supposed to be