1956 Democratic National Convention - CBS excerpt
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[0:03] [Music]
[0:25] National
[0:27] Convention of the Democratic Party
[0:30] will now come to
[0:40] order Mr
[0:42] chairman and members of this
[0:46] convention it is a genuine
[0:49] pleasure and a high privilege for me to
[0:53] present this
[0:56] gavl to you and to this convention
[1:02] this gavel was made from a
[1:05] hickory which grew at The Little White
[1:09] House Warm
[1:11] Springs the Georgia home of our great
[1:15] president the elate Franklin D Roosevelt
[1:18] [Applause]
[1:54] a lot of news is being made not down
[1:56] here on the convention floor but
[1:57] downtown Chicago and the hotels where
[2:00] delegations are caucusing and where the
[2:02] vote the battle for ballots in the
[2:05] nominating balloting coming later this
[2:07] week is taking place one of those
[2:09] reports is ready for us now as our
[2:10] newsmen sift them out Richard C hodet is
[2:13] in the Hilton hotel lobby with
[2:15] representative John moris of California
[2:16] come in deck the first real news break
[2:19] Walter has been that the platform
[2:21] drafting subcommittee has finished the
[2:23] first two planks of its platform
[2:25] representative John Moss of California
[2:27] is one of the leading members Mr Moss
[2:28] will you tell us what you have just
[2:30] concluded we've concluded the platform
[2:32] on atomic energy and the platform on
[2:35] domestic policy the atomic energy
[2:37] platform is a
[2:39] Sixpoint restatement of a conviction
[2:41] that we must have a return to bipartisan
[2:44] administration of the atomic energy
[2:46] program take it out of the field of
[2:48] partisan politics turn it to the use and
[2:52] the benefit of the American people uh
[2:54] step up the reactor development program
[2:57] so that the United States again can be
[2:59] the pre preeminent