CBS News - Democratic Convention - 1992-07-16 - 2 of 3

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[0:00] so conduct ourselves

[0:02] in this campaign and in our lives

[0:07] that 200 years from now, Americans will

[0:12] say of our labors that this nation and

[0:16] this earth were healed by people they

[0:21] never even knew.

[0:36] I'm told

[0:38] that Hope, Arkansas,

[0:41] is indeed a lot like my hometown of

[0:44] Carthage, Tennessee.

[0:47] A place where people do know about it

[0:51] when you're born and care about it when

[0:54] you die. That's the America Bill Clinton

[0:57] and I grew up in. That's the kind of

[1:00] nation we want our children to grow up

[1:03] in. Just as hope is a community, so is

[1:08] America. When we bring the community of

[1:11] America together, we will rekindle the

[1:15] American spirit and renew this nation

[1:18] for generations to come. And the way to

[1:21] begin is to elect Bill Clinton,

[1:24] president of the United States of

[1:26] America. Thank you very much.

[1:58] job. If you were saying to yourself,

[2:01] well, Bill Gore is no Jesse Jackson.

[2:04] He's no Mario Cuomo. You are right. He

[2:07] has never had a reputation of being a

[2:09] spellbinding speaker. But a number of

[2:12] people on the floor who've heard it many

[2:15] times in the Senate, at least one of

[2:18] whom has been seen snoozing in the

[2:20] Senate through an Albert Gore Jr.

[2:22] speech, has said

[2:25] he's way above his game tonight, that

[2:28] this is the best speech that Albert Gore

[2:30] Jr. has ever given. Whether that is true

[2:32] or not, he's done it. It's over.

[2:36] He slaps a medium five with his son

[2:39] Albert Gore III

[2:43] playing in the background. Paul Simon's

[2:46] You can call me Al.

[2:55] Part of Al Gore's job was to hit hard on

[2:58] the themes. Number one, the Reagan Bush

[3:01] 12 years have been failed leadership.

[3:04] Number two, we Clinton and Gore are the

[3:06] unifiers. We can pull the country

[3:09] together.

[3:13] And now to the tune of You can call me

[3:15] Al Chipperore and Albert Gore Jr.

[3:21] dancing on the podium.

[3:29] Timber is 43.

[3:34] Standing at her right, one of the

[3:37] family's three daughters,

[3:39] the daughters who we said before,

[3:41] Coreno, Christristen Serum, ages 18, 15,

[3:45] and 13, and Albert Gordon III, her son,

[3:48] is 9 years old.

[3:51] Typigor has a reputation of being

[3:54] a a strong campaigner, b a woman who can

[3:57] deliver a pretty good speech,

[4:00] and that means that there are four

[4:02] people on the Democratic ticket who at

[4:03] least know what they're doing when it

[4:04] comes to delivering campaign speeches.

[4:07] The Gors and the Clintons, Hillary

[4:09] Clinton has a reputation, even among the

[4:13] Republicans, of being a very strong

[4:15] speaker. Uh they always put it in terms

[4:19] of a strong speaker for a political

[4:20] life,

[4:22] but Hillary Clinton has been making

[4:24] political speeches as has tipper for a

[4:26] very long time. But of course any number

[4:28] of Republicans would say well they'll

[4:30] have to go some to beat the combination

[4:32] of Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Quail. Let's go

[4:35] over to Ed Bradley who's in the

[4:36] California delegation for reaction to

[4:38] the Gore speech. Dan, let me say first

[4:41] of all that I'm about as close to the

[4:43] California delegation you can get and

[4:45] I'm about uh an aisle and a half away. I

[4:48] don't know how many credentials they had

[4:50] tonight, but they didn't leave any in

[4:51] the drawer. There are that many people

[4:52] out on the floor. You talked about his

[4:54] reputation as someone who really doesn't

[4:56] set the audience on fire, but I can tell

[4:58] you in this section of the floor, he

[5:01] really had the crowd in his hands. I

[5:03] don't know how it played to the

[5:04] television audience, but when he kept

[5:06] saying it is time for them to go, he

[5:08] threw in. and he outlived a few of

[5:10] those. He said, "What time is it is it

[5:12] that wasn't in his prepared remarks and

[5:14] he picked up on it. He had them in his

[5:16] hands." And in this section when he was

[5:18] talking about his son, Albert, I tell

[5:20] you, there was not a sound on the floor.

[5:23] People who had been talking to each

[5:25] other were paying attention. They were

[5:26] watching pictures of his son Albert on

[5:28] some of the monitors here. I think that

[5:30] this is a speech that played very, very

[5:32] well in this house. Dan,

[5:35] >> thanks Ed. Now let's go and switch from

[5:38] California to Georgia. Susan Spencer,

[5:40] Georgia is a place where Southern

[5:42] Baptists such as Al Gore and Bill

[5:44] Clinton are understood. Well,

[5:47] Dan, that's right. And over a year, it

[5:49] was just as it was in California.

[5:51] Everyone was spellbound and started to

[5:52] talk about his son. I think the message

[5:55] here is you want family values. Okay,

[5:57] Republicans, here they are. Uh the

[6:00] picture of the two of them dancing of

[6:02] the senator with his son and his entire

[6:04] family is bound to make the Republicans

[6:06] a little bit uneasy about trying to

[6:07] capture that issue. In addition, I

[6:09] thought the appeal to the parole voters

[6:11] was interesting. Not to say vote for us,

[6:14] not yet. But just don't drop out. Stay

[6:16] involved. Stay interested in the

[6:18] process. Dan,

[6:20] >> thanks Susan. Coming up next, the hour

[6:22] of decision to see whether Bill Clinton

[6:25] delivers or doesn't quite cut it. Our

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[6:29] the Democratic National Convention

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[10:02] >> Jennifer Holidayiday has just brought

[10:04] them to their feet with her rendition of

[10:06] a dream with her name on it. This is an

[10:08] encore performance. She sang the same

[10:10] song at the Democratic convention in

[10:12] Atlanta in 1988. And as Jennifer

[10:14] Holidayiday winds it up with the dem the

[10:17] background of the Democrats equivalent

[10:19] of the wave for Clinton and Gore. Let's

[10:21] go back up topside to Charles Carell.

[10:23] Charles Al Gore Jr. is on the ticket

[10:25] partly because he has such a strong

[10:28] record on the environment.

[10:30] >> Yes, I was struck, Dan, by the fact that

[10:33] while he's one of the great experts on

[10:35] the environment and public life, he's

[10:37] written a good book on the subject. Uh

[10:39] he spoke about the subject only very

[10:41] briefly, a couple of short paragraphs in

[10:44] that good speech, I thought, sensitively

[10:47] delivered speech. I suppose it's because

[10:50] they know the Republicans starting maybe

[10:54] tomorrow are going to beat up on Al Gore

[10:56] as some kind of environmental extremist,

[10:59] a radical butterfly chaser who would

[11:02] cost the country jobs and and they don't

[11:04] want to to give the GOP that opening if

[11:07] they don't have to.

[11:13] >> He could have been anything in the

[11:14] world. Charles, you were talking about

[11:16] uh the Republicans intend to open up on

[11:19] Al Gore. Of course, they've already done

[11:21] that to a degree that almost from the

[11:23] minutes that he was named to the ticket,

[11:25] uh they began attacking as you

[11:27] described. And let's pause and say that

[11:29] there are attacks both ways in all ways.

[11:31] Politics is such an unforgiving,

[11:33] merciless arena. Anybody who gets into

[11:35] politics expects that and Al Gore

[11:38] expects that. Now, we mentioned earlier

[11:39] in the broadcast, Charles, that there's

[11:41] some talk that President Bush and the

[11:43] Bush Quail Forces have decided that they

[11:45] better start an advertising campaign as

[11:47] soon as next week, partly because of the

[11:50] big bump Clinton and Gore been getting

[11:51] in the polls. More about that perhaps

[11:53] later. Right now, we're going to take a

[11:55] break, but stay here with us. We'll be

[11:56] right back.

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[15:03] >> Good evening, I'm Bud Hinger. Coming up

[15:05] tonight after the convention, it is the

[15:07] most important moment in Bill Clinton's

[15:08] political career. And Tennessee's

[15:10] favorite son takes the podium, formally

[15:12] accepting Clinton's offer as his running

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[15:47] >> We asked CBS News correspond Richard

[15:49] Thrill to look at that film and do a

[15:50] reporter on it. Here it is.

[15:53] >> Hi Dan. A lot of the Clinton people have

[15:55] discovered that many voters still think

[15:57] that Bill and Hillary Clinton are

[15:58] grown-up spoiled rich kids. Well,

[16:00] they're not all that rich. The Clinton

[16:02] story is much more complicated and much

[16:04] more interesting.

[16:07] >> Michael Dukakus will never never never

[16:10] forget it.

[16:13] In closing,

[16:19] >> until last winter, most Americans

[16:21] remembered Bill Clinton, if they

[16:23] remembered him at all, for that endless

[16:25] nominating speech he gave for Michael

[16:27] Dakus at the Democratic convention four

[16:29] years ago. Even then, he was thinking

[16:32] about running for president himself

[16:34] someday.

[16:36] He'd been thinking about it, in fact,

[16:38] since he met President Kennedy in

[16:40] Washington when he was just a teenager.

[16:42] His mother, Virginia Kelly, remembers

[16:45] >> he met John Kennedy

[16:48] and when he came back with his picture

[16:49] shaking hands with John Kennedy,

[16:54] you know, a mother just knows.

[16:58] >> Clinton's father, a traveling salesman

[17:00] named William Ble, was killed in an

[17:02] accident before Clinton was born. that

[17:05] left a mark.

[17:06] >> Sure. I think Bill wishes he had known

[17:08] his father.

[17:09] >> Carolyn Staley was the girl next door

[17:11] when Clinton was growing up.

[17:13] >> And um he has a sense of time passing

[17:18] quickly. He's aware that he's older now

[17:21] than his father was when he died. Um he

[17:26] is, I think it's fair to say, a young

[17:28] man in a hurry.

[17:31] He was born in the little town of Hope,

[17:33] population 10,000. It's in one of the

[17:36] least prosperous sections of one of the

[17:38] least prosperous states in the nation.

[17:40] And it hasn't changed much in half a

[17:42] century. People here are solid,

[17:44] self-reliant, conservative. It's middle

[17:47] America.

[17:56] >> Clinton still comes back to Hol from

[17:58] time to time. Oh, there he is. Oh, there

[18:02] he is, Come on,

[18:04] >> He always stops by to see Margaret Pulk,

[18:06] a cousin who lived across the street

[18:08] when he was a boy.

[18:12] >> I like your t-shirt.

[18:16] >> You lost weight.

[18:17] >> I have.

[18:18] >> That's the prettiest boy in America.

[18:21] >> I was eight once.

[18:22] >> You better believe you was eight. You

[18:24] was a dog. Just like you still are.

[18:27] Clinton's stepfather, Roger Clinton, was

[18:29] an alcoholic and a sometimes violent

[18:31] man. There was never enough money.

[18:34] Margaret Pulk remembers that Billy

[18:35] Clinton had to grow up fast.

[18:38] >> He was older in his mind than he was in

[18:41] his body, his age, because he uh it

[18:45] seemed like he understood and he minded

[18:47] his mama.

[18:48] >> A growing up like that might have left

[18:51] him angry, embittered, defeated. Quite

[18:53] the contrary, David Leopoulos is

[18:55] Clinton's oldest friend.

[18:57] >> He's a loyal, loving, caring person and

[19:02] u a very simple person. He's not as

[19:05] complex as everybody tries to make him

[19:06] out to be.

[19:08] >> Hi, how you doing? What's your name?

[19:09] >> Clinton was raised in part of Arkansas's

[19:12] black belt, and the problems between

[19:14] blacks and whites intruded on Clinton's

[19:16] life early on. In 1957, federal troops

[19:19] had to enforce a school desegregation

[19:22] order in Little Rock.

[19:23] >> I think they'll get in here, but I don't

[19:25] know how long they'll live after if they

[19:27] do get in here.

[19:28] >> It was a practical lesson for Clinton

[19:30] and the consequences of racial

[19:31] injustice.

[19:33] Bill Clinton joined the American

[19:35] establishment the oldfashioned way. He

[19:37] earned it. A road scholarship, Yale Law

[19:40] School, youngest governor in America in

[19:43] 1979.

[19:44] >> Don't help me God. Don't help me God.

[19:48] But for only one term till Arkansas

[19:50] voters decided he'd gotten too big for

[19:52] his britches, he lost the election the

[19:54] next year. I still want us to be the

[19:57] best wherever we can. Remember me as one

[20:01] who reached for all he could for

[20:03] Arkansas. God bless you and God speed.

[20:08] >> I have never seen anybody

[20:13] accept defeat like that.

[20:16] And I was so proud.

[20:20] >> So easy to win,

[20:23] >> but when you lose.

[20:25] He ran again and won. And he's been

[20:28] governor of Arkansas ever since. And he

[20:31] spent much of the last dozen years

[20:33] making friends and making alliances with

[20:35] movers and shakers in Washington and all

[20:37] over the country.

[20:39] Bill Clinton says he's an outsider, but

[20:42] critics like Arkansas newspaper

[20:43] columnist Paul Greenberg, who first

[20:45] named him Slick Willie, say Clinton is

[20:48] just the opposite.

[20:49] >> He's worked for the right senators. Uh

[20:52] he says and does the right things. He's

[20:54] part of a national network of people who

[20:55] agree with him. I think he's almost a

[20:58] typical insider in terms of

[21:01] his rise in American politics. to which

[21:04] some of those insiders like Michael

[21:06] Mandelbomb, an old friend from college,

[21:08] reply, "So what?"

[21:09] >> Well, he is he's not unacquainted with

[21:12] Washington. He's not wet behind the

[21:14] ears. Uh he's he's deeply versed in

[21:17] social and economic issues, but he also

[21:20] has a very different vision for the

[21:22] American future than does George Bush.

[21:25] In that sense, he is an outsider.

[21:27] Something else you detect about Bill

[21:29] Clinton, the urge to be all things to

[21:31] all people, to make everybody happy. But

[21:34] politics is about picking and choosing.

[21:36] You can't make everybody happy. But he's

[21:38] been trying since grade school.

[21:40] >> He was probably a born or natural

[21:42] politician in that he always uh wanted

[21:45] to be liked by everybody, wanted to be a

[21:47] part of every group. Uh it really upset

[21:50] him if if somebody didn't didn't like

[21:52] him.

[21:53] >> And yet there are times when Clinton has

[21:55] done the right thing. even if it was the

[21:57] difficult thing. Eight years ago,

[21:59] Governor Clinton approved a law

[22:01] enforcement sting operation that

[22:03] resulted in the arrest and conviction of

[22:05] his only brother, Roger, on charges of

[22:08] cocaine trafficking. Roger served 18

[22:10] months in prison and now is a production

[22:12] assistant in Hollywood. Clinton hates

[22:15] the nickname Slick Willie, yet on

[22:17] occasion, he seemed too slick for his

[22:19] own good. He spent a year evading

[22:22] questions about whether he'd ever smoked

[22:24] marijuana in college. When he was

[22:26] finally pressed about it, he said yes,

[22:28] but not really.

[22:29] >> I experimented with marijuana a time or

[22:31] two, and I didn't like it and didn't

[22:34] inhale and never tried it again.

[22:36] >> It was a silly answer to a silly

[22:38] controversy, and Clinton claimed he was

[22:40] just kidding. Didn't inhale, but it made

[22:43] him a sort of national joke for a while.

[22:46] >> Come on. And I may believe I had a good

[22:49] time. Some of his critics, like

[22:51] Sheffield Nelson, the man he defeated

[22:53] for governor in the last election, claim

[22:55] it was just typical.

[22:56] >> Bill will tell you what you want to

[22:58] hear, and we'll change his stories as as

[23:00] much as he needs to to fit in line with

[23:02] uh the group he's talking to.

[23:04] >> One thing his friends and even his

[23:06] enemies say about Bill Clinton, he's a

[23:08] survivor. No presidential candidate in

[23:10] recent memory has taken so many knockout

[23:12] blows in a primary campaign, but Bill

[23:15] Clinton still standing. Even before the

[23:18] first big primary in New Hampshire,

[23:19] there was the other woman scandal.

[23:22] Clinton denied he'd ever had an affair

[23:24] with Jennifer Flowers. She said

[23:26] otherwise and sold her story to a

[23:28] tabloid.

[23:29] >> Yes, I was Bill Clinton's lover for 12

[23:32] years.

[23:34] And for the past two years, I have lied

[23:36] to the press about our relationship to

[23:37] protect him.

[23:38] >> There were questions about what Bill

[23:40] Clinton did during the Vietnam War.

[23:42] Critics said he dodged the draft by

[23:45] arranging for a college deferment until

[23:47] it was unlikely he'd be drafted.

[23:49] >> Like so many people in my generation, I

[23:52] felt a profound ambivalence. I love my

[23:55] country, but I hated the war. But in a

[23:57] letter to his draft board then, Clinton

[24:00] also said he stayed out of the draft to

[24:02] preserve his quote political viability.

[24:05] Clinton's poll ratings promptly went

[24:07] into freef fall and the smart money said

[24:09] he'd quit, but he didn't quit. Linda

[24:12] Bworth Thomasson, a TV producer who is

[24:14] close to the Clintons, thinks she knows

[24:16] why

[24:17] >> he's been declared dead by every

[24:19] newscaster in America on at least 10

[24:21] different occasions. And he just goes

[24:23] on. I mean, he's more than the Energizer

[24:25] really. He is resilient. And it's

[24:28] because, and it sounds corny, but I

[24:30] totally believe in this concept. He does

[24:33] believe in something larger than

[24:34] himself. And when last month Bill

[24:37] Clinton captured the California primary,

[24:39] he won the Democratic nomination. This

[24:42] week is just a fancy formality, there

[24:44] are those who know him who believe this

[24:47] was all meant to be.

[24:49] >> I thought always that, and this is

[24:52] preacher's daughter's lingo, but um that

[24:54] Bill was called, that there's a real

[24:57] sense for me of purpose in his life. And

[25:01] I think each of us are um here to do

[25:05] something and I think Bill's here to

[25:08] serve our country as president United

[25:09] States.

[25:10] >> Is that his destiny? We'll know in

[25:12] November. Dan

[25:14] >> Vic, what's happening on the floor? Of

[25:15] course, the delegates are still watching

[25:17] the prepared Clinton campaign film,

[25:20] which with no disrespect is kind of the

[25:22] history of Bill Clinton is totally hence

[25:24] Christian Anderson as opposed to your

[25:26] report about this upcoming speech by

[25:28] Governor Clinton. How long has he worked

[25:30] on these? Days, weeks, or months?

[25:32] >> Well, uh, you could probably argue if

[25:34] you just seen what we've done that he's

[25:37] been working on it since he was 16 years

[25:39] old. But in fact, uh, he's done 19

[25:41] drafts. It may have been a 20th today,

[25:43] which will reflect the Ross Perau, and

[25:46] we know there'll be some pro material in

[25:47] it. Thanks, Droel. The lights come back

[25:50] on. The film is over. It's the moment,

[25:55] the climactic moment of this 1992

[25:58] Democratic nominating convention.

[26:02] Governor Bill Clinton is backstage

[26:05] waiting to walk on

[26:31] Yeah.

[26:44] Heat.

[26:47] Governor

[27:07] Richards,

[27:09] Chairman Brown,

[27:12] Mayor Dinkens, our great host.

[27:22] My fellow delegates and my fellow

[27:24] Americans,

[27:26] >> I am so proud of Al Gore.

[27:37] He said he came here tonight because he

[27:39] always wanted to do the warm-up for

[27:41] Elvis.

[27:44] Well, I ran for president this year for

[27:46] one reason and one reason only. I wanted

[27:49] to come back to this convention and

[27:52] finish that speech I started four years

[27:54] ago.

[28:04] Well,

[28:09] last night,

[28:11] Mario Cuomo taught us how a real

[28:13] nominating speech should be given.

[28:26] He also made it clear why we have to

[28:28] steer our ship of state on a new course.

[28:32] Tonight, I want to talk with you about

[28:34] my hope for the future, my faith in the

[28:37] American people and my vision of the

[28:39] kind of country we can build together.

[28:44] I salute the good men who were my

[28:46] campaign companions on the campaign

[28:48] trail.

[28:50] Tom Harkin,

[28:57] Bob Kerry,

[29:03] Doug Wilder,

[29:07] Jerry Brown,

[29:12] and Paul Sonis.

[29:23] One sentence in the platform we built

[29:26] says it all. the most important family

[29:31] policy,

[29:32] urban policy,

[29:34] labor policy, minority policy, and

[29:38] foreign policy America can have is an

[29:41] expanding entrepreneurial economy of

[29:44] high wage, highskilled jobs.

[29:55] And so

[29:56] in the name of all those who do the

[29:59] work, pay the taxes, raise the kids, and

[30:02] play by the rules. In the name of the

[30:05] hardworking Americans who make up our

[30:07] forgotten middle class, I proudly accept

[30:11] your nomination for president of the

[30:14] United States.

[30:34] I am a product of that middle class.

[30:39] And when I am president, you will be

[30:41] forgotten no more.

[30:49] We meet at a special moment in history,

[30:51] you and I. The Cold War is over. Soviet

[30:56] communism has collapsed. And our values,

[31:00] freedom, democracy, individual rights,

[31:03] free enterprise. They have triumphed all

[31:06] around the world. And yet, just as we

[31:09] have won the Cold War abroad, we are

[31:12] losing the battles for economic

[31:14] opportunity and social justice here at

[31:16] home.

[31:22] Now that we have changed the world, it's

[31:26] time to change America.

[31:38] I have news for the forces of greed and

[31:40] the defenders of the status quo. Your

[31:43] time has come and gone. It's time for a

[31:46] change in America.

[31:54] Tonight,

[31:56] 10 million of our fellow Americans are

[31:59] out of work. Tens of millions more work

[32:02] harder for lower pay. The incumbent

[32:05] president says unemployment always goes

[32:08] up a little before a recovery begins,

[32:11] but unemployment only has to go up by

[32:14] one more person before a real recovery

[32:17] can begin

[32:28] and Mr. President, you are that man.

[32:47] This election is about putting power

[32:50] back in your hands and putting the

[32:52] government back on your side. It's about

[32:55] putting people first.

[33:03] You know, I've said that all across the

[33:05] country, and whenever I do, someone

[33:08] always comes back at me, as a young man

[33:10] did just this week at a town meeting at

[33:13] the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower

[33:15] East Side of Manhattan.

[33:19] He said, "That sounds good, Bill, but

[33:22] you're a politician. Why should I trust

[33:26] you?

[33:28] Tonight, as plainly as I can, I want to

[33:32] tell you who I am, what I believe, and

[33:36] where I want to lead America.

[33:46] I never met my father. He was killed in

[33:49] a car wreck on a rainy road three months

[33:52] before I was born. driving from Chicago

[33:55] to Arkansas to see my mother. After

[33:59] that, my mother had to support us. So,

[34:02] we lived with my grandparents while she

[34:04] went back to Louisiana to study nursing.

[34:10] I can still see her clearly tonight

[34:14] through the eyes of a three-year-old

[34:17] kneeling at the railroad station and

[34:20] weeping as she put me back on the train

[34:22] to Arkansas with my grandmother.

[34:26] She endured that pain because she knew

[34:29] her sacrifice was the only way she could

[34:32] support me and give me a better life. My

[34:36] mother taught me.

[34:38] She taught me about family and hard work

[34:42] and sacrifice.

[34:44] She held steady through tragedy after

[34:46] tragedy. And she held our family, my

[34:49] brother and I, together through tough

[34:51] times. As a child, I watched her go off

[34:55] to work each day at a time when it

[34:57] wasn't always easy to be a working

[35:00] mother.

[35:01] As an adult, I've watched her fight off

[35:04] breast cancer. And again, she has taught

[35:07] me a lesson in courage.

[35:10] And always, always, she taught me to

[35:14] fight.

[35:16] That's why I'll fight to create

[35:19] highpaying jobs so that parents can

[35:21] afford to raise their children today.

[35:24] That's why I'm so committed to make sure

[35:27] every American gets the healthc care

[35:29] that saved my mother's life.

[35:42] And that women's healthc care gets the

[35:44] same attention as men's.

[35:54] That's why I'll fight to make sure women

[35:56] in this country receive respect and

[35:59] dignity whether they work in the home,

[36:02] out of the home, or both.

[36:11] You want to know where I get my fighting

[36:14] spirit? It all started with my mother.

[36:19] Thank you, mother. I love you.

[36:34] When I think about opportunity for all

[36:37] Americans, I think about my grandfather.

[36:40] He ran a country store in our little

[36:43] town of Hope. There were no food stamps

[36:45] back then. So when his customers,

[36:48] whether they were white or black, who

[36:51] worked hard and did the best they could,

[36:54] came in with no money, well, he gave

[36:56] them food anyway. Just made a note of

[36:59] it. So did I. Before I was big enough to

[37:03] see over the counter, I learned from him

[37:06] to look up to people other folks look

[37:08] down on.

[37:16] My grandfather just had a high school

[37:18] education, a grade school education.

[37:21] But in that country store, he taught me

[37:24] more about equality in the eyes of the

[37:26] Lord than all my professors at

[37:28] Georgetown.

[37:30] More about the intrinsic worth of every

[37:33] individual than all the philosophers at

[37:36] Oxford. more about the need for equal

[37:39] justice under the law than all the

[37:41] jurists at Yale Law School.

[37:46] If you want to know

[37:48] where I come by the passionate

[37:50] commitment I have to bringing people

[37:52] together without regard to race, it all

[37:56] started with my grandfather.

[38:05] I learned a lot from another person,

[38:07] too. A person who for more than 20 years

[38:11] has worked hard to help our children.

[38:14] Paying the price of time to make sure

[38:16] our schools don't fail them. someone who

[38:19] traveled our state for a year, studying,

[38:21] learning, listening, going to PTA

[38:24] meetings, schoolboard meetings, town

[38:26] hall meetings, putting together a

[38:28] package of school reforms recognized

[38:31] around the nation, doing it all while

[38:34] building a distinguished legal career

[38:36] and being a wonderful, loving mother.

[38:40] That person is my wife.

[38:58] Hillary taught me.

[39:02] She taught me that all children can

[39:04] learn and that each of us has a duty to

[39:07] help them do it. So, if you want to know

[39:10] why I care so much about our children

[39:12] and our future, it all started with

[39:16] Hillary.

[39:18] I love you.

[39:27] Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in

[39:30] Washington lecturing the rest of us

[39:32] about family values.

[39:36] Our

[39:43] families have values, but our government

[39:47] doesn't.

[40:01] I want an America where family values

[40:03] live in our actions, not just in our

[40:05] speeches.

[40:09] An America that includes every family,

[40:13] every traditional family and every

[40:15] extended family,

[40:17] every two parent family, every single

[40:20] parent family and every foster family,

[40:23] every family.

[40:35] I do want to say something.

[40:38] To the fathers in this country who have

[40:40] chosen to abandon their children by

[40:44] neglecting their child support, take

[40:47] responsibility for your children or we

[40:50] will force you to do so.

[41:06] Because

[41:08] governments don't raise children,

[41:11] parents do. And you should.

[41:16] And I want to say something to every

[41:18] child in America tonight who's out there

[41:21] trying to grow up without a father or a

[41:23] mother. I know how you feel.

[41:28] You're special, too. You matter to

[41:31] America. And don't you ever let anybody

[41:34] tell you you can't become whatever you

[41:36] want to be.

[41:49] And if other politicians make you feel

[41:53] like you're not a part of their family,

[41:55] come on and be part of ours.

[42:14] Heat. Heat.

[42:34] The thing that makes me angriest about

[42:38] what's gone wrong in the last 12 years

[42:41] is that our government has lost touch

[42:44] with our values while our politicians

[42:47] continue to shout about them. I'm tired

[42:50] of it.

[42:56] I was raised to believe the American

[42:58] dream was built on rewarding hard work.

[43:03] But we have seen the folks in Washington

[43:06] turn the American ethic on its head. For

[43:10] too long, those who play by the rules

[43:11] and keep the faith have gotten the

[43:14] shaft.

[43:16] And those who cut corners and cut deals

[43:20] have been rewarded.

[43:23] People are working harder than ever,

[43:25] spending less time with their children,

[43:27] working nights and weekends at their

[43:29] jobs instead of going to PTA and little

[43:32] league or scouts. And their incomes are

[43:35] still going down.

[43:40] Their taxes are still going up. And the

[43:44] cost of health care, housing, and

[43:47] education are going through the roof.

[43:52] Meanwhile, more and more of our best

[43:54] people are falling into poverty, even

[43:56] though they work 40 hours a week.

[44:01] Our people are pleading for change.

[44:05] But government is in the way. It's been

[44:09] hijacked by privileged private

[44:11] interests. It's forgotten who really

[44:14] pays the bills around here. It's taking

[44:17] more of your money and giving you less

[44:19] in return.

[44:21] We have got to go beyond the brain

[44:23] deadad politics in Washington and give

[44:26] our people the kind of government they

[44:28] deserve. A government that works for

[44:30] them.

[44:47] A president,

[44:49] a president ought to be a powerful force

[44:54] for progress.

[44:56] But right now, I know how President

[44:59] Lincoln felt when General Mlelen

[45:02] wouldn't attack in the Civil War.

[45:05] He asked him, "If you're not going to

[45:07] use your army, may I borrow it?"

[45:13] And so I say, George Bush, if you won't

[45:17] use your power to help America, step

[45:20] aside. I will.

[45:43] Don't kill

[45:58] our country.

[46:02] Our

[46:06] country is falling behind.

[46:10] The president is caught in the grip of a

[46:13] failed economic theory.

[46:16] We have gone from first to 13th in the

[46:19] world in wages since Reagan and Bush

[46:22] have been in office.

[46:26] Four years ago,

[46:29] candidate Bush said, "America is a

[46:32] special place, not just another pleasant

[46:36] country somewhere on the UN roll call

[46:39] between Albania and Zimbabwe."

[46:44] Now, under President Bush, America has

[46:49] an unpleasant economy stuck somewhere

[46:52] between Germany and Sri Lanka.

[46:58] And for most Americans, Mr. President,

[47:02] life's a lot less kind and a lot less

[47:05] gentle than it was before your

[47:07] administration took office.

[47:20] Yeah.

[47:37] Listen.

[47:42] Do it some more.

[47:46] Our

[47:54] country has fallen so far, so fast that

[47:59] just a few months ago, the Japanese

[48:02] prime minister actually said he felt

[48:06] sympathy for the United States.

[48:10] Sympathy.

[48:12] When I am your president, the rest

[48:19] the rest of the world will not look down

[48:22] on us with pity, but up to us with

[48:26] respect again.

[48:38] What is George Bush doing about our

[48:40] economic problems?

[48:44] Now,

[48:45] four years ago, he promised 15 million

[48:48] new jobs by this time, and he's over 14

[48:52] million short.

[48:56] Al Gore and I can do better.

[49:02] He has raised taxes on the people

[49:05] driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes

[49:08] on the people riding in limousines.

[49:11] We can do better.

[49:14] He promised to balance the budget, but

[49:17] he hasn't even tried. In fact, the

[49:20] budgets he has submitted to Congress

[49:23] nearly double the debt. Even worse, he

[49:26] wasted billions and reduced our

[49:29] investments in education and jobs. We

[49:33] can do better.

[49:40] So,

[49:41] if you are sick and tired of a

[49:45] government that doesn't work to create

[49:46] jobs, if you're sick and tired of a tax

[49:50] system that's stacked against you, if

[49:52] you're sick and tired of exploding debt

[49:55] and reduced investments in our future,

[49:58] or if like the great civil rights

[50:01] pioneer Fanny Liu Hamer, you're just

[50:05] plain old sick and tired of being sick

[50:08] and tired. Then

[50:16] join us, work with us, win with us, and

[50:20] we can make our country the country it

[50:23] was meant to be.

[50:37] Now,

[50:39] George Bush talks a good game,

[50:43] but he has no game plan to rebuild

[50:47] America from the cities to the suburbs

[50:50] to the countryside so that we can

[50:52] compete and win again in the global

[50:54] economy. I do.

[51:00] He won't take on the big insurance

[51:02] companies and the bureaucracies to

[51:04] control health cost and give us

[51:06] affordable health care for all

[51:08] Americans. But I will.

[51:19] He won't even implement the

[51:21] recommendations of his own commission on

[51:24] AIDS. But I will.

[51:38] He won't streamline the federal

[51:40] government and change the way it works.

[51:43] Cut a 100,000 bureaucrats and put a

[51:46] 100,000 new police officers on the

[51:48] streets of American cities. But I will.

[52:00] He's never balanced a government budget,

[52:03] but I have 11 times.

[52:11] He won't break the strangle hold the

[52:14] special interests have on our elections

[52:16] and the lobbyists have on our

[52:18] government. But I will.

[52:25] He won't give mothers and fathers the

[52:28] simple chance to take some time off from

[52:32] work when a baby is born or a parent is

[52:35] sick. But I will

[52:48] We're losing our farms at a rapid rate

[52:51] and he has no commitment to keep family

[52:53] farms in the family, but I do.

[53:05] He's talked a lot about drugs, but he

[53:07] hasn't helped people on the front line

[53:09] to wage that war on drugs and crime. But

[53:12] I will.

[53:18] He won't take the lead in protecting the

[53:21] environment and creating new jobs in

[53:23] environmental technologies for the 21st

[53:26] century, but I will.

[53:36] And you know what else? He doesn't have

[53:39] Al Gore and I do

[54:02] Just in case

[54:04] just in case you didn't notice, that's

[54:07] gore with an e on the end.

[54:21] And George Bush.

[54:26] George Bush won't guarantee

[54:29] a woman's right to choose. I will

[54:49] Hear

[55:05] me now.

[55:08] I am not pro-abortion. I am pro-choice

[55:12] stronger.

[55:17] I believe

[55:19] this difficult and painful decision

[55:22] should be left to the women of America.

[55:28] I hope the right to privacy can be

[55:31] protected and we will never again have

[55:33] to discuss this issue on political

[55:36] platforms.

[55:45] But

[55:48] I am old enough to remember what it was

[55:51] like before Ro v Way Wade. And I do not

[55:55] want to return to the time when we make

[55:57] criminals of women and their doctors.

[56:10] jobs,

[56:12] education,

[56:13] healthc care. These are not just

[56:17] commitments from my lips. They are the

[56:20] work of my life.

[56:29] Our

[56:30] priorities

[56:32] must be clear. We will put our people

[56:38] first again.

[56:46] But priorities without a clear plan of

[56:49] action are just empty words. To turn our

[56:53] rhetoric into reality, we've got to

[56:56] change the way government does business

[56:58] fundamentally. Until we do, we'll

[57:01] continue to pour billions of dollars

[57:03] down the drain. The Republicans have

[57:06] campaigned against big government for a

[57:08] generation.

[57:09] But have you noticed they've run this

[57:11] big government for a generation

[57:16] and they haven't changed a thing. They

[57:20] don't want to fix government. They still

[57:22] want to campaign against it and that's

[57:24] all.

[57:30] But my fellow Democrats, it's time for

[57:33] us to realize that we've got some

[57:35] changing to do, too.

[57:37] There is not a program in government for

[57:39] every problem. And if we want to use

[57:42] government to help people, we have got

[57:45] to make it work again

[57:55] because we are committed in this

[57:58] convention and in this platform to

[58:01] making these changes.

[58:03] We are as Democrats, in the words that

[58:06] Ross Perau himself spoke today, a

[58:09] revitalized Democratic party.

[58:31] I am well aware

[58:34] that all those millions of people who

[58:36] rallied to Ross Perau's cause wanted to

[58:40] be in an army of patriots for change.

[58:45] Tonight I say to them, join us and

[58:48] together we will revitalize America.

[59:04] Now,

[59:06] I don't have all the answers, but I do

[59:09] know the old ways don't work. Trickle

[59:13] down economics, has sure failed.

[59:17] And big bureaucracies, both private and

[59:20] public, they fail, too.

[59:24] That's why we need a new approach to

[59:26] government. A government that offers

[59:28] more empowerment and less entitlement.

[59:31] More choices for young people in the

[59:33] schools they attend, in the public

[59:35] schools they attend,

[59:43] and

[59:44] more choices for the elderly and for

[59:46] people with disabilities and the

[59:48] long-term care they receive.

[59:54] A government that is leaner, not meaner.

[59:58] A government that expands opportunity,

[60:00] not bureaucracy. A government that

[60:03] understands that jobs must come from

[60:05] growth in a vibrant and vital system of

[60:07] free enterprise.

[60:10] I called this approach

[60:12] a new covenant, a solemn agreement

[60:18] between the people and their government

[60:20] based not simply on what each of us can

[60:23] take but what all of us must give to our

[60:27] nation.

[60:36] We offer our people a new choice based

[60:38] on old values. We offer opportunity. We

[60:43] demand responsibility.

[60:46] We will build an American community

[60:48] again. The choice we offer is not

[60:51] conservative or liberal. In many ways,

[60:54] it's not even Republican or Democratic.

[60:57] It's different. It's new. And it will

[61:00] work.

[61:06] It will work because it is rooted in the

[61:09] vision and the values of the American

[61:12] people.

[61:14] Of all the things George Bush has ever

[61:17] said that I disagree with. Perhaps the

[61:20] thing that bothers me most is how he

[61:23] derides and degrades the American

[61:27] tradition.