CBS News - Republican Convention - 1996-08-13 (partial)
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[0:01] Watch Mike Donghue only on News Center
[0:04] 6.
[0:10] Keynote night at the convention.
[0:12] Republicans give the Dole tax cut plan
[0:15] the hard cell. A stinging attack on the
[0:18] Clinton record in his own words. And
[0:21] courting women voters with a keynote
[0:23] address from a rising star.
[0:39] campaign 96,
[0:42] the Republican National Convention.
[0:46] From the San Diego Convention Center,
[0:48] here is Dan Rather.
[0:51] Good evening. On this second night of
[0:53] the Republican convention, much of the
[0:54] off-podium talk is about Colon Pal. CBS
[0:57] News has been told Dole is seriously
[1:00] thinking about putting Powell in his
[1:01] cabinet and wants to announce that
[1:03] intention well before the election. On
[1:06] the podium, it's pocketbook and attack
[1:08] night. Republicans have complained for
[1:10] months that President Clinton was
[1:11] stealing their campaign issues. Tonight,
[1:14] Republicans get their revenge. President
[1:16] Clinton will address this convention.
[1:18] The Doe Kimp forces hope to use the
[1:20] president's own words in his own voice
[1:23] here against him to provide damning
[1:26] testimony against the president's own
[1:28] administration. And you are the jury
[1:31] making the main case, two women,
[1:34] keynoter Representative Susan Molineri
[1:36] of New York and Senator K. Bailey
[1:38] Hudgensson of Texas. Now down there on
[1:40] the floor, it's no surprise that besides
[1:43] abortion and immigration, economy is
[1:45] very much on the minds of many of the
[1:46] delegates. 26% say the economy is the
[1:50] number one concern in their states. It's
[1:52] an issue the Dole Kemp ticket hopes to
[1:54] sell hard in key Midwestern battleground
[1:57] states. Remember that they think t