1952 Democratic National Convention - CBS News overview
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[0:17] Governor Adlai Stevenson
[0:20] for the first time has said yes.
[0:24] [Applause]
[0:37] [Music]
[0:52] We're going out of here
[0:54] an inspired and fighting party
[0:57] dedicated to the welfare of the people.
[1:00] We are bound to win this election.
[1:07] Now the Republicans can't understand why
[1:09] it is that Democrats keep on winning
[1:11] elections.
[1:13] They think there's some kind of a trick
[1:14] in it.
[1:16] And they have just about gone crazy
[1:18] trying to find out what that trick is.
[1:22] You know the real reason the Democrats
[1:24] win elections?
[1:26] It's a perfectly simple reason.
[1:30] Because the Democratic Party gives the
[1:31] American people the kind of government
[1:33] they want.
[1:35] [Applause]
[2:04] How do you do? I'm Walter Cronkite,
[2:06] Washington correspondent for the CBS
[2:08] Television Network. Every 4 years the
[2:11] United States selects a president. For
[2:13] 100 years the president has been a
[2:15] member of the Republican or the
[2:17] Democratic Party and it doesn't seem
[2:20] very likely in the immediate future that
[2:22] he's going to come from any other party.
[2:24] These parties nominate their
[2:26] presidential candidates at national
[2:28] conventions. We're going to see the
[2:29] highlights from one of these. The two
[2:32] conventions look very much alike. They
[2:34] elect their delegates in about the same
[2:36] manner. They conduct their business in
[2:38] about the same manner. And uh well,
[2:40] quite truthfully, a lot of the speeches
[2:42] sound very much alike. Delegates are uh
[2:45] selected from every part of every state
[2:48] in the United States as well as the
[2:49] American possessions. There are
[2:51] something over 1,200 delegates at each
[2:53] of these conventions. The convention's
[2:56] p