CBS Evening News - 1992-07-13

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[0:02] As the Democrats open their national

[0:04] convention, CBS News unravels a campaign

[0:07] of dirty tricks against presidential

[0:09] candidate Bill Clinton.

[0:11] >> You want him out of the race because

[0:13] he's not morally qualified to be

[0:14] president.

[0:15] >> I think that this is sick.

[0:18] >> Also tonight, how America sees the

[0:20] presidential campaign. We report to you

[0:22] what voters care about. And from Bosnia,

[0:25] Bob Simon with the story of a woman

[0:27] whose dreams of Olympic glory have

[0:29] become a living nightmare. This is the

[0:32] CBS Evening News.

[0:40] Live from Madison Square Garden in New

[0:41] York City, site of the Democratic

[0:43] National Convention, Dan Rather

[0:44] reporting. Good evening. The Democrats

[0:46] have begun their garden party to

[0:48] officially nominate Bill Clinton for

[0:50] president and Al Gore for vice

[0:52] president. We begin tonight with an

[0:54] exclusive CBS News report about an

[0:56] effort to sabotage the Clinton campaign.

[0:59] This report is the result of a

[1:01] threemonlong investigation by CBS News.

[1:04] We followed a trail of dirty tricks from

[1:06] Washington DC to Little Rock, Arkansas

[1:08] and beyond. Correspondent Eric Ingberg

[1:11] shows you what we found.

[1:14] It was the kind of tragedy a family

[1:16] desperately tries to forget. An

[1:18] emotionally distraught young woman 7

[1:20] months pregnant takes her own life. But

[1:22] the family and friends of Susan Coleman

[1:24] have been forced to relive this tragedy

[1:27] as political agents threatened to drag

[1:29] her name through the mud of the

[1:30] presidential campaign. They were victims

[1:33] of an unusually brazen dirty tricks

[1:36] operation run by an independent

[1:37] committee that supports George Bush for

[1:39] president. The group, the Presidential

[1:42] Victory Committee, seized on an

[1:44] anonymous letter, which had also been

[1:46] massiled to news organizations, alleging

[1:48] that Susan Coleman's suicide 15 years

[1:50] ago, followed a love affair with her law

[1:52] professor, Bill Clinton, that left her

[1:54] pregnant. Susan's family asserts there

[1:57] is no truth to this, and reporters who

[1:59] investigated the anonymous letter found

[2:01] it to be a nasty hoax. The head of the

[2:03] victory committee, Floyd Brown,

[2:05] specializes in gut level negative

[2:07] attacks, such as the notorious Willie

[2:09] Horton ad of 1988 and this year's

[2:12] Jennifer Flowers telephone hotline.

[2:14] >> Friendly acquaintance.

[2:15] >> Brown launched an effort to make the

[2:16] poison pen letter come true. He failed,

[2:19] but only after using many police state

[2:21] tactics.

[2:22] >> Windows, even though they were like

[2:24] peering like this.

[2:25] >> Yes. Yes, that's what the neighbor said.

[2:28] They were they were appearing and they

[2:31] came over and they pulled at that door.

[2:33] >> A friend of Susan Coleman's family who

[2:35] asked that her name be withheld says her

[2:37] neighbors told her Brown's henchmen came

[2:39] calling when she wasn't home. When she

[2:42] returned, they pressured her into

[2:43] talking to them.

[2:44] >> They said they had been to the police

[2:46] department. They had been to banks

[2:48] looking into various people's

[2:49] backgrounds.

[2:51] And you had the feeling that they had

[2:52] looked into yours too. Yes.

[2:54] >> The two gum shoes were Dave Bossy, an

[2:57] official of the presidential victory

[2:58] committee, and Jim Murphy, a retired DC

[3:00] policeman. Federal election records show

[3:03] both men are paid by the victory

[3:04] committee for work on behalf of Bush's

[3:07] election.

[3:07] >> They were asking such lurid and detailed

[3:11] questions about various people's lives

[3:15] um

[3:16] that it was frightening.

[3:18] >> Another stop for the investigating duo,

[3:20] the home of Susan's husband. He took

[3:23] their picture on his front porch.

[3:25] >> Did they mention Bill Clinton?

[3:27] >> They were investigating the letter, the

[3:30] allegations that she had some

[3:33] relationship with him.

[3:34] >> They probed for clues in the dead

[3:36] woman's suicide note.

[3:38] >> They didn't want to know what was in it.

[3:40] They told them that was personal. It was

[3:41] none of their business.

[3:42] >> Another target was Susan's mother. The

[3:45] duo trailed her down country roads to

[3:47] the Army Hospital in Augusta, Georgia,

[3:50] where her husband was being treated for

[3:52] a stroke. Here, the two men burst into

[3:55] the sick man's room and began

[3:57] questioning the shaken mother about her

[3:59] daughter's suicide.

[4:00] >> I think that this is sick.

[4:03] >> Susan Coleman's sister, seeking to avoid

[4:05] a tabloid circus over her sister's

[4:07] memory, asked us for anonymity. She was

[4:10] angry and frightened over the harassment

[4:12] of her mother and she was ready when

[4:14] Floyd Brown called to press for dirt.

[4:16] She recorded the calls.

[4:18] >> Hi, I'm Floyd Brown.

[4:19] >> Hello, Floyd.

[4:20] >> He did not hesitate to bring up gruesome

[4:22] details.

[4:24] >> Was she depressed? See, he won't even

[4:26] answer if she was depressed

[4:27] >> because

[4:27] >> was she suicidal?

[4:29] To think that they have the right to

[4:32] just foster this type of grief on a

[4:34] family and to dredge up something like

[4:37] this is is is inexcusable. Just leave my

[4:41] family alone.

[4:42] >> You're making it so difficult for me to

[4:45] leave your family out of it.

[4:47] >> The sister remembers being stunned by

[4:49] one Brown proposal. If

[4:51] >> there's any truth to this proposed

[4:54] story, uh I want to be very private. I

[4:58] want to uh uh basically uh have um my

[5:03] lawyers approach Clinton's lawyers and

[5:06] tell him that we want him out of the

[5:07] race because he's not morally qualified

[5:10] to be president.

[5:11] >> When we confronted Floyd Brown, he

[5:13] asserted a special right to track down

[5:16] sleas and use it to blackmail

[5:17] candidates.

[5:18] >> Because if a man's involved in that, he

[5:20] should not be president. Eric, he

[5:23] shouldn't be.

[5:24] >> But we have an election to decide that.

[5:26] We have people go to the polls and vote.

[5:28] Floyd Brown doesn't decide by himself,

[5:31] does he?

[5:31] >> I have people who work with me. I'm

[5:34] supported by thousands of individuals

[5:36] who like what I'm doing, who like that

[5:38] I'm aggressive, who like that I'm taking

[5:40] on the Washington establishment, who

[5:42] like what I'm doing. The Bush campaign,

[5:45] referring to Brown and his associates as

[5:47] the lowest forms of life, today branded

[5:50] their tactics as despicable. The

[5:52] campaign says that Brown is not

[5:54] associated with the president in any

[5:56] way. However, the Bush campaign has not

[5:59] filed a formal complaint against Brown

[6:01] with the Federal Election Commission,

[6:02] which enforces the campaign laws.

[6:05] Susan's family has been left with a

[6:07] feeling there is a dark side to politics

[6:09] that threatens everyone.

[6:11] >> I decided that it was time that uh the

[6:15] tricksters were stopped, and I know that

[6:17] my sister would have done it, and so

[6:19] I'll do it for her.

[6:22] Eric Hberg, CBS News, Washington.

[6:26] >> Coming up next from Madison Square

[6:27] Garden, why one of the Democrats leading

[6:29] women says she agrees with Bill

[6:32] Clinton's decision to pick a man as his

[6:34] running mate.

[6:50] Suddenly, vitamins are all over the

[6:51] news.

[6:52] >> Fact is, two out of three adults don't

[6:54] get all that's recommended in their

[6:56] diets. Two out of three.

[6:58] >> Wonder if I'm getting the vitamins I

[6:59] should.

[7:01] >> There is a cereal though that has 100%

[7:03] of 10 essential vitamins. Whole grain

[7:06] total. Of course,

[7:08] >> just one bowl gives you a full day's

[7:10] allowance of these vitamins.

[7:13] Total. One bowl 100%.

[7:16] >> With all vitamin Us, I'm eating total.

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[7:51] >> Opening night of the Democratic National

[7:53] Convention rolls on here at New York's

[7:55] Madison Square Garden. Right on queue.

[7:57] It was gabbled down and curtained up

[7:59] with a cast of thousands all assembled

[8:01] for the superolous glitz and the serious

[8:03] business of this convention making

[8:05] Governor Bill Clinton and Senator Al

[8:07] Gore the Democratic ticket. Also part of

[8:09] the process, the people parading

[8:11] outside, the demonstrators on both sides

[8:13] of the abortion issue and the ranks of

[8:15] the homeless receiving a meal. Governor

[8:18] Bill Clinton's day began in New York

[8:20] with a hot morning run for the cameras

[8:22] in Central Park. Clinton also spent some

[8:24] time today at a center for homeless

[8:26] mothers and their children. To set the

[8:28] tone for the convention, there are three

[8:30] keynote speakers tonight, including as

[8:32] the leadoff speaker, Senator Bill

[8:33] Bradley of New Jersey, lead off in what

[8:35] we call prime prime time. Our late word

[8:38] is that Governor Clinton has decided he

[8:40] wants Governor Zel Miller of Georgia to

[8:43] be the centerpiece speaker and that

[8:46] Governor Miller will attack for the

[8:47] first time officially out of the Clinton

[8:49] camp both the Bush Quail ticket and Ross

[8:52] Perau. Earlier today, the outspoken

[8:54] chair of the convention, Texas Governor

[8:56] Anne Richards lived up to her

[8:57] reputation. She was asked why there were

[8:59] no women on Bill Clinton's short list of

[9:01] potential running mates.

[9:03] There are very few women in this country

[9:07] who

[9:08] really are prepared and capable of being

[9:11] on that ticket and serving as president

[9:13] of the United States. The ones who are

[9:18] I I don't think any of them would do it

[9:20] because to do it they would have to give

[9:23] up what they've got. For women, for

[9:26] voters of both sexes and all stripes,

[9:28] this is a year of unrest. So, how is the

[9:31] campaign coming across in this summer of

[9:33] discontent? Correspondent Mark Phillips

[9:35] went to Southfield, Michigan to get a

[9:37] read on middle America.

[9:42] It's tough getting away from politics

[9:44] this summer. The landscape is rife with

[9:46] symbolism of candidates trying to climb

[9:49] the electoral heights of the politicians

[9:51] and the electorate being taken along for

[9:53] the ride of politics being turned on its

[9:55] head by a strong independent candidate

[9:58] turning the event into an odd

[9:59] three-horse race. And behind the

[10:01] symbolism, the issues

[10:04] >> employment and economy has to be number

[10:05] one.

[10:06] >> Education is a big issue for our entire

[10:09] country and and jobs. education,

[10:13] jobs, and healthcare.

[10:15] >> Everett and Joan Howard and their kids,

[10:18] Mike Sante and Natalie Buchanan about to

[10:20] be married this fall. They're all from

[10:23] Southfield, Michigan, a suburb outside

[10:25] of Detroit, about as middle American as

[10:27] you can get.

[10:28] >> This is what America really is in this

[10:30] type of community where everybody works.

[10:33] >> This is an integrated town, middle class

[10:35] blacks,

[10:36] >> play ball,

[10:37] >> and whites. and they're as involved in

[10:39] this election as the Democrats in New

[10:41] YORK THIS WEEK. The common wisdom is

[10:44] that Americans don't usually begin to

[10:45] really get involved in presidential

[10:47] politics until sometime after Labor Day.

[10:49] Maybe it's the odd three-way race. Maybe

[10:51] it's the economy. But there are signs

[10:53] that people are getting into the game a

[10:55] little earlier this year.

[10:59] The winds of change are sweeping through

[11:02] the corridors of America, and we must BE

[11:04] POISED TO STATE OUR CLAIM. In many ways,

[11:08] blacks and whites here are looking for

[11:09] the same things.

[11:11] >> Honesty,

[11:12] integrity,

[11:14] um, a sense of of of fairness.

[11:18] >> I really think that this is going to be

[11:22] the vote that could change a lot of

[11:24] things for our country.

[11:25] >> There may be agreement here on most

[11:27] issues, but there is a perception gap on

[11:29] race.

[11:31] Everyone works together here and you

[11:33] know we all get along and it's it's not

[11:37] a very big issue.

[11:38] >> Thing that really concerns me is whether

[11:41] or not my children are going to have a

[11:43] future in America. I see that the

[11:47] political climate and the racial climate

[11:50] in America in my opinion is going back

[11:53] to the 1940s.

[11:57] >> The ump though calls him the way he sees

[11:59] him. What's the difference? Whether it's

[12:00] black, Hispanic, white, or whatever. I

[12:02] mean, if it's bad, it's bad for

[12:04] everybody.

[12:05] >> The political ride has been a bit wild

[12:07] this year.

[12:12] A long way from those nostalgic, more

[12:14] sedate, less turbulent times. Mark

[12:17] Phillips, CBS News, Southfield,

[12:19] Michigan.

[12:21] >> We'll have more from the Democratic

[12:22] Convention a bit later. Coming up next,

[12:24] the rest of the today's news as we

[12:26] report live from Madison Square Garden.

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[14:11] In the most unusual presidential

[14:13] campaign in recent history, the

[14:15] Democrats nominate their candidate. Join

[14:17] Dan Rather and the CBS news team at the

[14:19] Democratic convention tonight.

[14:23] In Baltimore today, a jury decided that

[14:25] six companies that made or sold

[14:27] asbestous products are guilty of

[14:29] negligence. The Baltimore verdict came

[14:31] in a case that consolidated more than

[14:33] 8,000 asbesus injury lawsuits.

[14:38] Now, from around the world, more CBS

[14:40] News. In Rome, Pope John Paul is in the

[14:42] hospital for tests to determine what is

[14:44] causing an intestinal problem. The Pope

[14:47] is 72. His doctors have ruled out any

[14:49] connection to the wounds the Pope

[14:51] suffered in a 1981 assassination

[14:53] attempt. In Latafia, dozens of forest

[14:56] fires are burning out of control after 2

[14:59] months of hot, dry weather. One of the

[15:00] fires is near a military base, and

[15:02] firefighters are digging out abandoned

[15:04] mines and shells, trying to head off any

[15:07] explosions. In Scotland, scientists

[15:09] began the first detailed study of Loch

[15:11] Ness. They'll study the lakes's plant

[15:13] and animal life, and of course, keep an

[15:15] eye out for the legendary Loch Ness

[15:17] monster. And more than six inches of

[15:20] rain fell on central Ohio this morning,

[15:22] causing severe flooding. The rising

[15:24] water forced dozens of Ohio people to

[15:26] leave their homes for higher ground.

[15:28] Coming up next on the CBS Evening News,

[15:30] amid the shells in Sievo, an Olympic

[15:33] athlete runs for her life and her

[15:35] country, Bosnia.

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[16:20] But one morning, I gave him Kellogg's

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[16:24] same. More than fiber, they had whole

[16:26] grain wheat. Flakes were due, too.

[16:28] Crispy, crunchy. Why, that Kellogg's

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[16:45] Bill buys a hot.

[16:48] >> Thank you, Henry. Come on, Duke.

[16:50] >> Bye, Bill.

[16:50] >> Now, over the years, Bill drives and

[16:53] drives.

[16:53] >> Hey, look. Horses, Duke.

[16:55] >> Then drives his Honda.

[16:58] Then, when it's time, Bill trades his

[17:01] Honda. Well, thanks again, Bill.

[17:04] >> Thank you, Henry. For another Honda,

[17:09] number one in owner loyalty again. All

[17:12] right, sports fans, you've heard the

[17:14] controversies around his decisions. So,

[17:16] what's his next call? Baseball

[17:18] Commissioner Fay Vincent tomorrow on CBS

[17:20] This Morning with Harry Smith and Paul

[17:22] Aison.

[17:24] >> There is political news far beyond

[17:25] Madison Square Garden in Israel. Yet

[17:28] Rabbine took over his prime ministry

[17:30] today and Rabbine invited Arab leaders

[17:32] to Jerusalem and he offered to go to

[17:34] their capitals to talk peace. Fierce

[17:37] fighting spread today in the former

[17:39] Yugoslav Republic of Bosnia. A mortar

[17:41] barrage hit right next to the United

[17:43] Nations compound in Servo, killing one

[17:46] teenage civilian and wounding several

[17:48] more. The UN Secretary General said the

[17:50] new attacks left the relief airlift

[17:52] Serbo hanging by a slender thread.

[17:55] Earlier today, an infant with a

[17:57] potentially fatal heart defect was

[18:00] airlifted out of Sievo. The 6-week old

[18:02] girl was evacuated on a UN plane with a

[18:05] surgeon on board. Another person

[18:07] desperate to get out of the war zone is

[18:09] a worldclass runner. War correspondent

[18:12] Bob Simon in Sieo has her story.

[18:21] Mrs. Burkage runs for her life every

[18:24] day. She's not dodging snipers. She's

[18:26] training for the Olympics. Mrs. Bosnia's

[18:29] prime long distance runner. She wants to

[18:31] go to Barcelona. She can't get out of

[18:33] Sieo.

[18:35] Now she runs through the ruins of her

[18:37] neighborhood. She's been shot at a few

[18:39] times. When the shelling is heavy, she

[18:41] skips rope or runs up and down the

[18:43] stairs of her building. She doesn't have

[18:45] much choice. This is what's left of the

[18:47] sports complex where she usually trains.

[18:52] Training under these conditions, I can't

[18:54] expect a medal in Barcelona, she says. I

[18:56] just want to get there. The Burich

[18:58] family home was in a village which no

[19:00] longer exists. Rada and her parents were

[19:03] there in June when Serbs overran the

[19:05] place. They were taken prisoner and

[19:07] released two weeks later. The young men

[19:09] of the village, 49 of them, were put in

[19:11] a bus and massacred. Mrs. May one of the

[19:15] men in the mass grave. He hasn't been

[19:17] heard from in 40 days. I think about him

[19:20] when I run, she says. I'm still in

[19:22] shock. I wonder if I will survive the

[19:24] war, if anyone will survive. Mada takes

[19:27] a big risk every evening as she rushes

[19:30] into the halfbombed out Holiday Inn. But

[19:33] it's the only place she can get a decent

[19:34] meal. The government arranged it to keep

[19:37] her strong for Barcelona.

[19:39] But the road to Barcelona runs through

[19:41] Serbian held territory. Her only hope of

[19:43] getting there is through the good

[19:45] offices of the United Nations. But so

[19:47] far, the Serbs have been uncooperative.

[19:49] After all, why should they let her run

[19:51] for a country which they're trying to

[19:53] obliterate?

[19:55] The Serbs are trying to wipe out Bosnia

[19:57] with big guns. The people of Sievo are

[20:00] retaliating with little affirmations. To

[20:03] triumph, Mrs. Burich doesn't have to win

[20:05] in Barcelona. All she has to do is be

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[22:22] >> Back now live from Madison Square

[22:24] Garden. One thing Governor Bill Clinton

[22:25] wants to do is leave here with what he

[22:28] considers to be a new mainstream

[22:30] Democratic party as united as possible

[22:32] for the fall. There are naturally

[22:34] stresses in this picture of unity, some

[22:36] of them by design. For example, Clinton

[22:38] has purposely taken on one of the

[22:40] party's key players in past elections,

[22:42] Jesse Jackson. I talked with Reverend

[22:44] Jackson earlier today.

[22:46] Why should the voter not think that

[22:48] there isn't much difference now between

[22:52] the mainstream Democrat and the

[22:54] mainstream Republican? So why not shrug

[22:56] his shoulders say listen there's really

[22:57] not much to choose here and that's why

[22:59] many people are shrugging their

[23:00] shoulders. That's why many are not

[23:03] voting or low voter turnout. That's why

[23:05] some others are looking to an

[23:06] alternative to that. There's enormous

[23:08] pain in the country. 10 million people

[23:11] unemployed.

[23:13] one of every 10 on food stamps, plants

[23:15] closing, jobs running cheap labor

[23:17] markets. If we address that gap with a

[23:21] massive plan to rebuild America, we will

[23:23] have the tools with which to mobilize a

[23:26] massive record-breaking vote. There he

[23:29] was in ' 84 with Montdale

[23:32] and in ' 88 with Dakus. No one outright

[23:36] blames Jesse Jackson for their defeats,

[23:38] but former Mandale and Dauakus aids

[23:40] don't hide the fact that Jesse damaged

[23:42] their candidates among white voters.

[23:44] >> And if my survival means your total

[23:46] destruction, then so be it.

[23:49] >> Which is why Governor Bill Clinton in a

[23:51] calculated move used a black rap singer

[23:53] to put distance between himself and

[23:55] Reverend Jackson.

[23:56] >> You know, they can have the distance

[23:58] that they seek. There's no contention

[24:00] about that. If if they want distance,

[24:02] they have it. There's no contention that

[24:05] if if they want distance from labor and

[24:08] from cities.

[24:10] It's an innovative way to build a

[24:11] coalition, but I will not interfere in

[24:14] the campaign.

[24:16] Jesse Jackson is one American politician

[24:18] who consistently speaks for the poor and

[24:20] downtrodden. One of the few national

[24:22] leaders openly advocating aid to the

[24:24] cities.

[24:25] >> We must be the party of and for and by

[24:29] the people. We must have our power

[24:32] bottom up. And when we speak, the coal

[24:34] miners in West Virginia says that's my

[24:36] party. The unemployed youth in LA says

[24:39] that that's our way out. The youth who

[24:41] want more scholarships and less tuition

[24:43] say that's my way out. Those who lost

[24:45] their plants say well that's our way

[24:47] out. We are the party of the people.

[24:50] Only this is the year Democrats are

[24:52] reaching out to the suburbs where the

[24:54] majority of votes are and appealing to a

[24:56] middle class electorate not in the mood

[24:58] to see much more money spent on the

[25:00] poor. We do not suggest you need to

[25:02] choose between inner city and suburb.

[25:05] Put America back to work is not inner

[25:06] city or suburb. It's not black or white.

[25:09] It's big tent. We need not demean each

[25:11] other in this process. We need not dare

[25:13] each other in the process. We need not

[25:15] have winners and losers. Why not winners

[25:19] and winners?

[25:20] >> There have always been two Jesse

[25:21] Jacksons. There's Jesse the radical who

[25:24] preaches rage and black separatism. That

[25:26] Jesse has always angered whites.

[25:32] And there's Jesse the self-promoter who

[25:34] preaches desegregation and compromise.

[25:36] To many African-Americans, including

[25:38] this group we spoke with in Detroit,

[25:40] that Jesse is regarded as irrelevant and

[25:42] p.

[25:43] >> When Jesse ran in ' 84, he was a much

[25:46] stronger

[25:47] blacker, if you will, he was a much

[25:50] stronger candidate.

[25:52] >> Jesse benefits uh by doing these things.

[25:56] the the the average black person on the

[25:58] street, the black child in these urban

[26:01] schools, these black people in these

[26:03] worn out urban decadent cities still

[26:07] lose. The next day, they going to still

[26:09] be hungry. They going to still be out

[26:11] there with that sign, give me uh some

[26:13] money, I'll work for food and Jesse will

[26:16] be, you know, paid again. I still speak

[26:19] in more schools,

[26:22] more churches,

[26:24] bought more picket lines,

[26:27] spend more time in jails,

[26:30] pray over more babies, work with more

[26:33] families,

[26:35] register more voters than any leader in

[26:38] this country.

[26:40] And because I do, the people respond

[26:42] when I make appeals to them for support.

[26:45] So, the Reverend Jesse Jackson comes to

[26:47] this convention ready to play team, he

[26:49] says, but obviously not completely happy

[26:51] with the Clinton Gore ticket or its

[26:52] message. But how do other Democrats

[26:54] feel? Richard Thrill has been talking to

[26:57] and listening to the delegates. Richard,

[26:58] are we going to have a fractured party

[27:00] and a splintered convention as usual for

[27:02] the Democrats? Two chances, Dan. Slim

[27:04] and none. Look, Jesse and the Rainbow

[27:06] Coalition feel they've been dissed

[27:08] disrespected by Bill Clinton and as you

[27:10] saw maybe with with some reason, but

[27:12] there are other black politicians. John

[27:13] Lewis, a congressman from Atlanta, comes

[27:16] to mind, who are solidly behind this

[27:17] ticket. Most of the Democratic left,

[27:19] Marty Frank, congressman from

[27:21] Massachusetts, comes to mind, solidly

[27:23] behind this ticket. The Democratic left

[27:25] doesn't want to lose. They're tired of

[27:26] committing Harry Kerry every four years.

[27:28] And the thinking is, let's get Bill

[27:30] Clinton elected president, see if we can

[27:31] make a liberal of him in office. If we

[27:33] don't elect him, all of this is for n.

[27:36] Richard, thanks. We talking to you later

[27:38] in the evening. CBS News has confirmed

[27:42] in a late development that Nelson

[27:43] Mandela from South Africa, it is now

[27:46] believed, will be speaking live to the

[27:49] convention here on Wednesday night. More

[27:51] about that later. So stay with CBS, this

[27:54] CBS station for continuing coverage of

[27:56] the Democratic National Convention as

[27:58] evening goes along. We'll be back on the

[27:59] air live from here in Madison Square

[28:01] Garden at 9:30 Eastern time. Dan Rather

[28:05] for the CBS Evening News. I'll see you

[28:07] again here soon.

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