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[0:19] >> Time Square, the heart of New York.

[0:21] Pulsing, alive, and this year thriving

[0:24] with a revival of Broadway's finest. The

[0:27] noise, the horns, the crowds. This is

[0:30] New York. If you can make it here, they

[0:32] say, you can make it anywhere. Well,

[0:34] just a few blocks south of here in

[0:36] Madison Square Garden, the Democrats are

[0:38] counting on a revival of their own. A

[0:40] revival that will put Governor Bill

[0:42] Clinton and the Democratic Party in the

[0:44] White House. Tonight, they're looking to

[0:46] the inspiring voice of New York's own

[0:48] Governor Mario Cuomo to set the stage.

[0:51] The curtain is going up. Get ready for

[0:54] the next act of the Democratic National

[0:56] Convention.

[1:09] campaign 92, the Democratic National

[1:12] Convention.

[1:15] Live from Madison Square Garden in New

[1:17] York City, here is Dan Rabbit.

[1:21] >> Good evening and welcome to the main

[1:23] floor of the main event. New York's

[1:25] Madison Square Garden delegates here for

[1:28] the culmination, the nomination of Bill

[1:31] Clinton, the candidate to be by the man

[1:34] who might have been New York's Governor

[1:36] Mario Cuomo. Making things perhaps just

[1:40] a little bit easier for Mario Como as he

[1:42] steps into this pressure situation where

[1:44] so much is expected of him tonight are

[1:46] two things. First of all, the results of

[1:48] some new polls, a new CBS News poll and

[1:52] an independent bipartisan overnight poll

[1:55] both indicate that Governor Clinton's

[1:58] message, what he hoped for most to get

[2:00] out of this convention, the message of

[2:02] change, may indeed be getting through to

[2:04] voters. Also helping at least a little

[2:07] is the fact that independent candidate

[2:10] for president to be Ross Perau today

[2:12] lost one of his main players Ed Rollins

[2:16] out of there in Dallas. More about that

[2:19] perhaps later on. Still, this is crunch

[2:22] time for Mario Cuomo for two reasons at

[2:24] least. First of all, so much is expected

[2:26] of him after his great keynote speech in

[2:29] San Francisco in 1984. and also the fact

[2:33] that it's very hard to make a great

[2:36] truly great nominating speech. Remember

[2:38] the last time when Cuomo made his

[2:39] reputation, so to speak, it was the

[2:41] keynote speech. This time, this is a

[2:43] nominating speech and almost no one can

[2:45] remember the last time a really great

[2:47] nominating speech was made. Now, earlier

[2:49] this evening here in Madison Square

[2:51] Garden, they were ringing down the echo,

[2:53] a tribute to a fallen hero, the late

[2:55] Senator from New York, Robert Kennedy.

[2:58] This tribute was played some little

[3:00] while ago before we reach this point,

[3:03] the point where the delegates are now

[3:04] seeing a film building up to the Mario

[3:07] Cuomo nominating speech tonight. Let's

[3:10] go to the podium and CBS News

[3:11] correspondent Bob Sheeper. Bob York.

[3:14] >> Thank you, Dan. And for whatever the

[3:16] reasons, this convention is working for

[3:20] Bill Clinton. It is accomplishing just

[3:21] what his people hoped it would. It is

[3:24] giving people outside the hole a more

[3:26] favorable impression of Bill Clinton.

[3:30] So, let's go back to Dan now. Dan and

[3:32] let's go straight up to the podium.

[3:34] Mario Cuomo facing the pressure, facing

[3:37] the crowd, and walking to the

[3:39] microphone.

[3:57] Thank you very much.

[4:02] Thank you very much. Thank you.

[4:07] Thank you.

[4:27] Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank

[4:29] you.

[4:31] Thank you very much.

[4:34] Thank you.

[4:37] Thank you very much. Ladies and

[4:38] gentlemen,

[4:42] thank you.

[4:46] Thank you.

[4:53] >> Thank you. I don't want to go over time.

[4:55] They warned me I might wind up playing

[4:56] the accordion on the Arenio Hall show.

[4:59] So let's

[5:03] tonight

[5:05] tonight I will have

[5:07] the great privilege

[5:10] and honor

[5:12] of placing before you

[5:16] the name of the next president of the

[5:18] United States of America, Governor Bill

[5:22] Clinton of Arkansas.

[5:50] It seems to me that this is not a matter

[5:52] of our wanting Bill Clinton. It is much

[5:56] much more than that. We need Bill

[5:59] Clinton because he is our only hope for

[6:03] change from this nation's current

[6:06] disastrous cause.

[6:14] Eight years ago

[6:16] in San Francisco, some of us tried to

[6:19] convince America that while President

[6:22] Reagan was telling us we were all one

[6:25] shining city on a hill, there was

[6:27] another city where people were

[6:29] struggling, many of them living in pain.

[6:32] And we tried to tell America that unless

[6:35] we changed policies, unless we expanded

[6:38] opportunity, the deterioration of the

[6:41] other city would spread.

[6:44] Well, we Democrats failed to reach

[6:47] enough Americans with that message. And

[6:50] now the nation has paid an awful price.

[6:55] We cannot afford to fail again.

[7:05] The price is too high. For the first

[7:07] time in their lives, millions of

[7:09] Americans who took for granted the basic

[7:11] right to make a living with one's own

[7:14] hands and mind and heart have been

[7:16] denied the dignity of earning their own

[7:18] bread. Today, a 50-year-old father lives

[7:22] nearly in terror at the prospect that if

[7:26] he is laid off now, as so many people

[7:28] around him have been, in addition to

[7:30] losing everything else, he loses health

[7:32] insurance, too. What if I'm struck by

[7:35] cancer? My god, what about the mortgage?

[7:38] What about my son in college and my

[7:40] daughter who's graduating high school?

[7:42] How will they get an education?

[7:44] And when will they find a job even if

[7:46] they get an education?

[7:49] How could it have happened

[7:52] in a country where the executives of

[7:54] companies that fail, the presidents and

[7:57] chairman of companies that make profits

[7:59] by trading solid American jobs for cheap

[8:02] labor overseas can make 5 million, 10

[8:05] million, 15 million a year? How did it

[8:08] happen?

[8:15] How can our middle class workers be in

[8:17] such terrible jeopardy?

[8:20] A million children a year leaving school

[8:24] for the mean streets. A million a year

[8:27] surrounded by prostitutes and drug

[8:30] dealers, by violence and degradation of

[8:32] all kinds. Some of them growing up

[8:35] familiar with the sound of gunfire

[8:38] before they've ever heard an orchestra.

[8:41] becoming young adults only to be

[8:44] instructed by the powerful evidence of

[8:46] their surroundings that there is little

[8:47] hope for them. Even in America,

[8:52] nearly a whole generation surrendering

[8:54] in despair to drugs, to having children

[8:57] while they're still children, to

[8:59] hopelessness. How did it happen here in

[9:02] the most powerful nation in the world?

[9:04] It's a terrible tragedy

[9:07] not only for our children but for all of

[9:10] America.

[9:12] They are not my children perhaps.

[9:14] Perhaps they are not your children

[9:15] either. But Jesse is right. They are our

[9:19] children and we should love them.

[9:33] We should

[9:35] we should love them.

[9:39] That's compassion. But there's common

[9:41] sense at work here as well. Because even

[9:44] if we were hard enough to choose not to

[9:47] love them, we would still need them to

[9:51] be sound and productive because they are

[9:53] the nation's future. It would be bad

[9:56] enough

[10:00] >> if we It would be bad enough if we could

[10:03] believe that all of this unhappiness and

[10:05] failure is the result of a terrible but

[10:08] only a temporary recession.

[10:11] But this, ladies and gentlemen, is more

[10:13] than a recession. Our economy has been

[10:17] weakened fundamentally by 12 years of

[10:20] conservative Republicans supply side

[10:22] policy so-called. In fact, in fact,

[10:26] supply side was just another version of

[10:30] the failed Republican dogma of 65 years

[10:33] ago, then called trickle down, which led

[10:36] to the Great Depression. And it has

[10:38] failed us again.

[10:50] Think about supply side.

[10:53] Supply side operated from the naive

[10:55] Republican assumption that if we fed the

[10:57] wealthiest Americans with huge income

[11:00] tax cuts, they would eventually produce

[11:03] loaves and fishes for everyone.

[11:06] Instead, it made a small group of our

[11:09] wealthiest Americans wealthier than ever

[11:11] and left the rest of the country the

[11:13] crumbs from their tables. unemployment,

[11:17] bankruptcies, economic stagnation.

[11:22] Today, today, as we've heard so many

[11:24] times, a $400 billion annual deficit and

[11:28] a $4 trillion national debt hang like

[11:31] great albatrosses around our nation's

[11:34] neck, strangling our economy, menacing

[11:36] our future.

[11:38] Remember, we became a great nation by

[11:41] making things and selling them to others

[11:44] for their marks and their yen. But

[11:47] today, we buy from Japan and Germany and

[11:51] other nations, the things we used to

[11:53] make and sell to them, automobiles and

[11:56] radios and televisions and clothing,

[11:59] giving them our dollars for their goods.

[12:02] And then at the end of the year, because

[12:05] we spend so much more than we collect in

[12:08] these reduced taxes, we borrow back

[12:11] those dollars, paying billions more of

[12:14] our dollars in interest, increasing our

[12:17] debt, decreasing our ability to invest

[12:20] in our children, our schools,

[12:22] perpetuating a mad economic cycle that

[12:25] threaten threatens to spin us totally

[12:27] out of control. In no time at all, in no

[12:31] time at all, we have gone from the

[12:33] greatest seller nation, the greatest

[12:36] lender nation, the greatest creditor

[12:38] nation to today the world's largest

[12:41] buyer, the world's largest borrower, and

[12:44] the world's largest debtor nation. That

[12:47] is Republican supply side.

[13:02] And that, ladies and gentlemen, that is

[13:05] the legacy of the Bush years. The

[13:08] slowest economic growth for any 4-year

[13:11] presidential term since Herbert Hoover.

[13:15] An economy crippled by debt and deficit.

[13:17] the fading of the American dream.

[13:19] Workingass families sliding back down

[13:22] toward poverty again. Deprivation,

[13:25] inexplicable violence,

[13:28] and after 12 years, Americans are

[13:31] disillusioned. And they are angry and

[13:33] they are fearful.

[13:35] And Americans showed that with a quick

[13:37] embrace they gave to the sudden

[13:39] appearance on television of a

[13:41] provocative, wealthy businessman who

[13:43] said he'd like to be president. Before

[13:46] he told anyone what he intended to do or

[13:50] how he would do it, he used one word and

[13:54] applause broke out all over America.

[13:58] The word was change.

[14:02] Of course, the American people want

[14:04] change. Of course, we want something

[14:05] better than George Bush and the politics

[14:08] of decline, decay, and deception. And

[14:11] beginning with this convention, we, you

[14:13] and I, must demonstrate to all the

[14:16] American people that change for the

[14:18] better is at hand, ready, able, eager to

[14:23] serve in the person of, yes, Governor

[14:26] Bill Clinton of knocking for

[14:43] and this time

[14:47] this time we cannot afford to fail to

[14:50] deliver the message not just to

[14:52] Democrats but to the whole nation

[14:55] because the ship of state is headed for

[14:57] the rocks. The crew knows it. The

[15:01] passengers know it. Only the captain of

[15:04] the ship, President Bush, appears not to

[15:07] know it. He seems to think

[15:10] No, no, no. You see, the president seems

[15:13] to think that the ship will be saved by

[15:17] imperceptible undercurrens directed by

[15:20] the invisible hand of some cyclical

[15:22] economic god that will gradually move

[15:25] the ship so that at the last moment it

[15:28] will miraculously glide past the rock.

[15:43] Well,

[15:47] prayer prayer is always a good idea,

[15:52] but our prayers must be accompanied by

[15:55] good works. We need a captain who

[15:58] understands that and who will seize the

[16:00] wheel before it's too late. I am here

[16:02] tonight to offer America that new

[16:05] captain with a new course before it is

[16:08] too late. And he is Governor Bill

[16:10] Clinton of Arkansas.

[16:27] Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton understands

[16:31] that a great political party must apply

[16:33] the best of its accumulated wisdom to

[16:36] the new configurations of a changing

[16:38] reality. He cherishes the ideals of

[16:41] justice and liberty and opportunity and

[16:43] fairness and compassion that Robert

[16:45] Kennedy died for. But he knows that

[16:48] these ideals require new

[16:50] implementations, new ways to provide

[16:53] incentive, to reward achievement, to

[16:55] encourage entrepreneurship, to develop

[16:57] jobs.

[16:59] Bill Clinton believes, as we all here

[17:01] do, in the first principle of our

[17:05] democratic commitment, the politics of

[17:07] inclusion, the solemn obligation to

[17:11] create opportunity for all of our

[17:13] people, not just the fit and the

[17:15] fortunate, for the aging factory worker

[17:17] in Pittsburgh and the school child in

[17:20] Atlanta. for the family farmer in De

[17:22] Moines and the eager immigrants sweating

[17:25] to make their place alongside of us here

[17:28] in New York City and in San Francisco.

[17:38] for all the people, for the bright young

[17:40] business woman in Chicago, all the

[17:42] people from wherever, no matter how

[17:44] recently, of whatever color, of whatever

[17:47] creed, of whatever sex, of whatever

[17:50] sexual orientation, all of them, equal

[17:53] members of the American family. And the

[17:56] neediest of them, the neediest of them,

[18:00] deserving the most help from the rest of

[18:03] us.

[18:06] Now,

[18:13] that is the fundamental democratic

[18:17] predicate.

[18:19] Surrender that democratic principle. And

[18:22] we might just as well tear the donkeys

[18:25] from our lapels, pin elephants on

[18:27] instead, and retreat to elegant estates

[18:30] behind ivycoed walls. Where when they

[18:33] detect a callous on their palms, they

[18:36] conclude it's time to put down their

[18:38] polo mallet.

[18:47] Oh my.

[18:53] Bill Clinton believes that the closest

[18:55] thing to a panacea that we have is

[18:58] described by a simple four-letter word,

[19:00] work. He has been living that truth all

[19:03] of his life. So, Bill Clinton believes

[19:05] that what we most need now is to create

[19:08] jobs by investing in the rebuilding of

[19:10] our cities, the shoring up of our

[19:12] agricultural strength by investing to

[19:15] produce well-trained workers, new

[19:17] technologies, safe energy,

[19:19] entrepreneurship, laying the foundations

[19:22] for economic growth into the next

[19:24] century with free enterprise for the

[19:26] many, not free enterprise for the few.

[19:28] pulling people off welfare, off

[19:31] unemployment, giving people back their

[19:34] dignity and their confidence.

[19:37] And unlike the other candidates, unlike

[19:40] the other candidates, and they all talk

[19:42] about jobs, Bill Clinton has a solid,

[19:45] intelligent, workable plan to produce

[19:48] these jobs.

[20:03] But President Bush disagrees with Bill

[20:06] Clinton. President Bush says we cannot

[20:10] afford to do all that needs to be done.

[20:12] He says we have the will but not the

[20:15] wallet.

[20:16] Bill Clinton knows that we have the

[20:19] wealth available. We have proven it over

[20:23] and over

[20:25] every time the dramatic catastrophe

[20:28] strikes. Remember the savings and loans

[20:32] governors and mayors had gone to

[20:33] Washington and I was among them to plead

[20:36] for help for education for job training

[20:39] for roads and bridges for drug

[20:41] treatment.

[20:43] Sorry, there is none, said the

[20:45] president. We're broke. We have the will

[20:49] but not the wallet.

[20:52] And we put our heads down. And then

[20:54] Americans discover that wealthy bankers

[20:56] educated in the most exquisite forms of

[20:59] conservative Republican banking through

[21:02] their incompetence and thievery and the

[21:04] government's neglect had stolen or

[21:07] squandered everything in sight.

[21:24] the world's greatest bank robbery.

[21:29] And we heard no moralizing about values

[21:33] then from our Republican leaders, did

[21:35] we?

[21:40] No. No.

[21:45] Instead of castigations

[21:50] dictu, all of a sudden the heavens

[21:52] opened and out of the blue billions of

[21:55] dollars appeared. Not for children, not

[21:58] for jobs, not for drug treatment or for

[22:01] the ill or for health care, but hundreds

[22:03] of billions of dollars to bail out

[22:05] failed savings and loans. Billions for

[22:08] war, billions for earthquakes if they

[22:10] strike, god forbid, in hurricanes. And

[22:12] Bill Clinton asks, "If we can do all of

[22:15] this for these spectacular catastrophes

[22:17] when they occur, why can we not find the

[22:21] wealth to respond to the quiet

[22:23] catastrophes that every day oppress the

[22:26] lives of thousands that destroy our

[22:28] children with drugs.

[22:32] All the quiet catastrophes.

[22:37] The quiet catastrophes that kill

[22:40] thousands with terrible new diseases

[22:42] like AIDS, that deprive our people of

[22:45] the shurness of adequate health care,

[22:47] that stifle our future. Bill Clinton

[22:50] asks the question. Bill Clinton has the

[22:54] answer. And America needs Bill Clinton,

[22:57] too, because he understands that we must

[23:00] deal with what could be eventually the

[23:04] most lethal problem of all, a degraded

[23:07] environment. One that kills life in our

[23:10] lakes with acid rain, allows cancer,

[23:12] causing rays to pierce a deteriorated

[23:15] ozone shield, and threatens to convert

[23:17] the entire planet into a cosmic hotouse.

[23:21] Bill Clinton made clear how well he

[23:24] understands that when he announced

[23:27] Senator Al Gore would be the next vice

[23:30] president of the United States of

[23:32] America.

[23:42] America.

[23:49] America needs Bill Clinton. America

[23:52] needs Bill Clinton for still another

[23:54] reason.

[23:56] We need a leader who will stop the

[23:59] Republican attempt through laws and

[24:01] through the courts to tell us what God

[24:04] to believe in and how to apply that

[24:07] God's judgment to our school rooms, our

[24:09] bedrooms, and our bodies.

[24:32] Bill Clinton.

[24:34] Bill Clinton knows the course from here

[24:37] past peril to a new era of growth and

[24:40] progress for this nation that will

[24:42] enable us to share our power and our

[24:44] abundance with the whole world

[24:46] community.

[24:48] He was born and raised fortunately for

[24:51] us with all the personal attributes

[24:54] needed for leadership. God-given

[24:56] intelligence, vitality, and an

[24:59] extraordinary quality of character that

[25:01] allowed him to survive the buffering and

[25:03] the trauma of a difficult youth. He was

[25:06] born poor in Hope, Arkansas. Now, the

[25:10] accents, even the colors, may have been

[25:12] a tint different, but the feelings were

[25:15] the same that many of us experienced on

[25:17] the asphalt streets of some of the

[25:19] nation's great cities. The same pain,

[25:22] the same anguish, the same hopes. He has

[25:25] lived through years of hard challenges

[25:28] since that difficult youth. And with

[25:31] each new challenge, he has grown wiser

[25:33] and stronger, as he demonstrated so well

[25:36] with his remarkable resiliency in the

[25:39] recent bruising Democratic primaries. I

[25:41] will tell you this, in a world of

[25:43] fragile and thin skinned politicians, he

[25:46] was an admirable aberration.

[26:01] Bill Clinton

[26:04] has always been driven by the desire to

[26:06] lift himself above his own immediate

[26:09] concerns to give himself to something

[26:12] larger than himself. His entire life has

[26:16] been devoted to helping others through

[26:19] public service. And for 11 years now, he

[26:22] has been the governor of his beloved

[26:23] state, protecting Arkansas from a

[26:26] federal government that has been

[26:27] depriving the states and cities for over

[26:30] a decade, balancing 11 budgets in a row,

[26:33] doing the things that governors and

[26:35] presidents are supposed to do, enforcing

[26:38] the laws, providing education and

[26:40] opportunities for children and young

[26:42] adults, expanding health care,

[26:45] attracting new jobs, and reaching out to

[26:49] heal wounds. caused by 300 years of

[26:52] unfairness and oppression.

[26:55] He has done it so well that the nation's

[26:58] other governors, both Democratic and

[27:01] Republican, have repeatedly acknowledged

[27:04] him to be a national leader.

[27:07] All this time, all this time, Bill

[27:10] Clinton has worked to relieve other

[27:13] people's discomfort

[27:15] because he remembers his own struggle.

[27:20] That's why we need Bill Clinton. Because

[27:23] Bill Clinton still remembers.

[27:26] Because he is equipped to break the

[27:28] awful gridlock in Washington to deliver

[27:30] effective government. Finally, because

[27:33] he will remind the nation that we are

[27:36] too good to make war our most successful

[27:39] enterprise.

[27:46] That's why we need Bill Clinton.

[27:51] We need Bill Clinton because he does not

[27:55] believe that the way to win political

[27:58] support is to pit one group against

[28:01] another.

[28:04] Bill Clinton does not believe in the

[28:07] cynical political arithmetic that says

[28:10] you can add by subtracting, you can

[28:13] multiply by dividing. He rejects that.

[28:24] Instead, instead he will work to make

[28:27] the whole nation stronger by bringing

[28:30] people together, showing us our

[28:32] commonality, instructing us in

[28:34] cooperation, making us not a collection

[28:38] of competing special interests, but one

[28:42] great special family, the family of

[28:45] America.

[28:52] For all these reasons, we must make Bill

[28:56] Clinton the next president of the United

[28:59] States of America.

[29:15] Ladies and gentlemen, a year ago

[29:20] in this great city led by our great

[29:22] mayor, Mayor Dinkens, we had a great

[29:24] parade in New York City to celebrate the

[29:27] return of our armed forces from the

[29:30] Persian Gulf. I'm sure you had one, too.

[29:34] But as joyous as those parades were, I'd

[29:36] like to march with you in a different

[29:38] kind of celebration. One regrettably,

[29:41] that we cannot hold yet. I'd like to

[29:43] march with you behind President Bill

[29:46] Clinton through cities and rural

[29:48] villages where all the people have safe

[29:51] streets and affordable housing and

[29:53] healthcare when they need it. I want to

[29:55] clap my hands and throw my fist in the

[29:57] air, cheering neighborhoods where

[29:59] children can be children, where they can

[30:02] grow up and get the chance to go to

[30:03] college and one day own their own home.

[30:07] I want to sing proud songs, happy songs,

[30:10] arm in-armm with workers who have a real

[30:12] stake in their company's success, who

[30:15] once again have the assurance that a

[30:17] lifetime of hard work will make life

[30:19] better for their children than it had

[30:22] been for them. I want to march behind

[30:24] President Bill Clinton in a victory

[30:26] parade that sends up fireworks

[30:29] celebrating the triumph of our

[30:30] technology centers and factories out

[30:33] producing and outs selling our overseas

[30:35] competitors. I want to march with you. I

[30:39] want to march with you knowing that we

[30:41] are selecting justices to the Supreme

[30:44] Court who are really qualified to be

[30:46] there.

[31:03] and and justices.

[31:07] justices who understand the basic

[31:09] American right of each individual to

[31:14] make his or her own private moral and

[31:17] religious judgment.

[31:28] I want to look around and feel the

[31:30] warmth, the pride, the profound

[31:32] gratitude of knowing that we are making

[31:35] America shurer, stronger, and sweeter. I

[31:38] want to shout out our thanks because

[31:41] President Bill Clinton has helped us to

[31:43] make the greatest nation in the world

[31:45] better than it's ever been. So step

[31:48] aside, Mr. Bush, you've had your parade.

[32:02] It's time. It's time for change. It's

[32:07] time for someone smart enough to know,

[32:09] strong enough to do, sure enough to

[32:11] lead, the comeback kid, a new voice for

[32:14] a new America. Because I love New York.

[32:17] Because I love America, I nominate for

[32:19] the office of the President of the

[32:21] United States, the man from Hope,

[32:23] Arkansas, Governor Bill Clint.

[32:55] Mario Cuomo doing what he was assigned

[32:57] to do.

[32:59] Hit the basic things that Governor Bill

[33:01] Clinton wanted in the speech that

[33:05] nominates him for his bid to be

[33:08] president of the United States.

[33:11] Theme number one, America needs jobs and

[33:14] Bill Clinton has a plan to produce more

[33:17] jobs on that. In essence, Mario Cuomo,

[33:21] Bill Clinton can and will deliver.

[33:25] Mean too,

[33:27] time for change after 12 years of mayor

[33:30] leadership

[33:32] in the Democrats view.

[33:36] Theme number three,

[33:38] we the Democrats are the unifiers

[33:41] and so on down the line.

[33:46] Now, there'll be two major seconding

[33:48] speeches, Maxine Waters, Congresswoman

[33:52] from Los Angeles, David Mccertie,

[33:54] Congressman from Oklahoma, who be

[33:58] following to the podium, Mario Cuomo.

[34:02] But it was Cuomo who was to set it up,

[34:06] lay the groundwork for Governor

[34:07] Clinton's own acceptance speech tomorrow

[34:09] night. Let's go to Susan Spencer, the

[34:11] New York delegation for reaction. Susan,

[34:14] between these shots of Mario, I hope you

[34:16] can hear me. This this was clearly the

[34:19] place to listen to Mario Cuomo's speech.

[34:21] The New York delegation went wild over

[34:23] this, responding to every jeer and every

[34:25] satirical jab at President Bush. I think

[34:28] from the standpoint of the Clinton

[34:29] campaign, they could hardly have asked

[34:32] for more. Uh, as you said, the emphasis

[34:34] on leadership, on the concerns of the

[34:36] middle class, especially on change. Now,

[34:39] the question may be whether Bill Clinton

[34:41] can match this speech, Dan.

[34:46] >> Now, let's go over for the to the

[34:48] California delegation with CBS News

[34:50] correspondent Ed Bradley. Ed. Dan, I

[34:53] think uh Susan was in a good place to

[34:55] hear it in New York, but I've got to

[34:56] tell you, this speech played well all

[34:58] over the hall. I'm not far away from the

[35:00] California, closer actually to the

[35:02] District of Columbia. You hear people

[35:04] shouting now, "We want Bill and we want

[35:06] Mario." He did everything in this speech

[35:08] that they wanted him to do. He outlined

[35:10] the problems in this country, the

[35:12] perceived shortcomings of the

[35:13] administration in handling them, and the

[35:15] strengths and the ideals and the plans

[35:17] of Bill Clinton to take care of those

[35:19] problems. It was a speech that was well

[35:21] paced. It was wellreceived. I tell you,

[35:23] it was about six or seven pages long if

[35:24] you look at the printed version and that

[35:26] last page was a real stem winder and

[35:28] people down here really reacted well to

[35:30] it. Dan, that's true. And the four or

[35:33] five delegations we've had a chance to

[35:34] check with very quickly. That was pretty

[35:36] much the reaction particularly did Cuomo

[35:40] do a good job of building to a crescendo

[35:42] in those last two or three pages. Our

[35:44] CBS News coverage live from Madison

[35:46] Square Garden in New York City will

[35:49] continue in a moment.

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[36:45] new taste you can only find at Wendy's.

[36:48] >> Hey, Wendy.

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[38:24] We're back uh just off the floor Madison

[38:26] Square Garden with the Reverend Jesse

[38:28] Jackson. First of all, Reverend Jackson,

[38:31] congratulations on your address and a

[38:33] quick burst of what you thought was the

[38:35] central attraction of Mario Cuomo's

[38:37] nominating speech.

[38:38] >> I don't know whether to say he's the

[38:40] poor politician or he puts music to

[38:42] message the way he puts it, but he

[38:44] brings comfort and he walks in, there's

[38:46] a sense that it's going to be all right,

[38:49] that he he feels, understands, and can

[38:52] say it. And the reason why say it is so

[38:54] important in the beginning was the word.

[38:57] There's power in the word. and he he

[39:00] says the ru it with authenticity and a

[39:02] moral authority. You just kind of feel

[39:04] it all over the room.

[39:06] >> But the last time in 1984 when he made

[39:09] the great nominating the great keynote

[39:11] speech, the Democrats were barely able

[39:13] to carry one state. Well, look at the

[39:15] difference. At that time, uh there was

[39:17] an economic growth rate of 6%. Reagan

[39:20] was a very popular incumbent and of

[39:22] course Mandel who was a good man but ran

[39:26] on raising taxes that was exploded. And

[39:28] so it was the context. Now you have this

[39:31] depression, you have 10 million

[39:33] unemployed, you have plants closing.

[39:36] There's a sense that people know there

[39:38] must be a way out. To think that when uh

[39:41] Bill Clinton talks about uh uh values

[39:44] plus in some sense now with a guy like

[39:46] Cuomo on board, it's Clinton plus Cuomo,

[39:49] it's it's Clinton plus Democratic

[39:51] leadership. It's it's Clinton plus

[39:53] Jackson.

[39:54] The plus factor begins to give breath

[39:57] and strength to this ticket even to help

[39:59] guide its direction. I remind people

[40:00] over and over again that Roosevelt ran

[40:03] not on a New Deal ticket. He ran on

[40:05] balance the budget but the people plus

[40:08] his will to move moved him to a new

[40:10] deal. I think that's what we're looking

[40:12] at here. You're talking you're talking

[40:14] positively. You're talking up the

[40:15] ticket. But listen, you know, I know

[40:18] that everybody in this hall knows you

[40:19] have some problems with the way Governor

[40:22] Clinton has conducted the convention and

[40:24] thus far has conducted the campaign.

[40:25] Let's talk candidly. Where are the

[40:27] problems?

[40:27] >> Well, for example, there was the problem

[40:29] of making room for Jared Brown's 4

[40:31] million voters and the 600 delegates.

[40:33] That adjustment has been made. That's a

[40:35] growth. During the campaign, there was a

[40:38] kind of strategy of being distanced from

[40:40] from mayors. Many of them came on very

[40:42] late, from labor, from the rainbow. But

[40:44] slowly but surely, it seems that the

[40:47] opening is coming. It's significant to

[40:49] me that Governor Clinton supports DC

[40:51] statethood and on-site same day their

[40:53] registration. These have been big fights

[40:54] this year. Uh raise at minimum wage and

[40:57] index and minimum w minimum wage for

[40:58] working poor people. Uh a willingness to

[41:01] tax the rich and the powerful and to cut

[41:03] the military budget and reinvest in

[41:05] America. These programs begin to go to

[41:07] the heart of the new opportunities. And

[41:10] that's what the struggle has been about.

[41:11] opening up the party and creating more

[41:13] possibilities. I do not like any theory

[41:16] of suburb or inner city, black or white.

[41:20] Let's talk big tent and make room for

[41:23] all of us under one tent. That's what

[41:25] equal protection under the law means to

[41:26] me. What about the theory that Jesse

[41:28] Jackson's influence in the Democratic

[41:30] party is waning and one of the reasons

[41:32] it's waning to quote a newspaper

[41:33] headline is that Bill Clinton went eye

[41:36] to eye with Jesse Jackson and Jesse

[41:37] Jackson blinked. who are less kind of

[41:40] foolish and provocative. Uh I don't have

[41:43] the same influence here I had in 88. I'm

[41:45] not a candidate. Uh I'm here as a

[41:47] Democrat, as a senator from Washington

[41:49] DC. Uh and I think we should not get

[41:52] trapped trying to measure uh who and

[41:54] where we are by popularity, but rather

[41:57] by will to serve. It finally comes down

[41:59] to is there a will to serve? I have that

[42:02] will to serve. I've spoken NAACP

[42:04] convention today are in Nashville,

[42:06] Tennessee, making the same case that we

[42:08] measure the greatness of our nation by

[42:10] how we treat the least of these. Not who

[42:12] is the most popular among us, but who

[42:14] has the greatest will to serve our

[42:15] children, our poor, our old, those who

[42:17] want a job. And so I will keep focusing.

[42:20] I would like to thank on the moral

[42:22] imperative as the measurement, not by

[42:25] fickle polls. Let's talk let's talk real

[42:27] stuff. Reverend Jackson, always good to

[42:28] see you. We're going to go up now to

[42:30] Charles Carroll. Charlie

[42:32] >> Dan, you know, um I'm still in the glow

[42:36] of that Cuomo speech. Mario Cuomo is

[42:38] like one of those three-way light bulbs.

[42:40] He had been going around telling people

[42:42] to expect a 75 watt speech from him

[42:45] tonight. He said he was going to stay on

[42:47] dim so as not to put Bill Clinton in the

[42:50] shade. And then he stepped up here

[42:52] tonight and delivered a genuine 250

[42:56] water. A speech bright and hot enough to

[42:59] light up this dark room. I think tonight

[43:02] was Cuomo's night as last night was

[43:04] Jesse Jackson's. And in spite of all the

[43:07] indecision uh about Cuomo's own future,

[43:10] he may still have one in the Democratic

[43:12] party. The Democrats have been at pains,

[43:14] as you must have noticed, to make room

[43:16] on this program this week for the party

[43:18] leaders of the future. By contrast, the

[43:21] candidates of the immediate past,

[43:23] Michael Dukakus and Walter Manddale,

[43:26] were introduced tonight in exactly 15

[43:29] seconds each. And before the television

[43:32] network signed on, politics can be very

[43:36] cruel. I'm afraid the Clinton people who

[43:38] are running this convention don't want

[43:39] voters even to think about Dukakus in

[43:41] Manddale. We have been out and around

[43:44] the country today asking television

[43:46] viewers what has impressed them about

[43:48] the Democratic convention so far. And

[43:49] the answer so far is overwhelmingly the

[43:52] women of the party. All those women

[43:55] Senate candidates, some of whom look

[43:56] like winners this fall, and Anne

[43:59] Richards, the Texas governor, and

[44:02] emphatically Barbara Jordan, who excited

[44:04] the convention night before last.

[44:06] Senator Ted Kennedy predicted in this

[44:08] hall tonight that the day is coming when

[44:10] the Senate will be mainly women. So,

[44:13] we're about to have a roll call vote on

[44:15] this floor. It's to nominate a

[44:17] president. But I just wanted to mention

[44:20] that there is a lot more going on here

[44:22] than a presidential nomination. Namely,

[44:24] the slamming of a door on the past of

[44:28] the Democratic Party and a showcase and

[44:31] a prophecy of what they hope will be

[44:33] this party's future. Dan Thanks,

[44:36] Charles. Let's go to the podium just

[44:38] back here now. And Bob Sheeper, who's

[44:39] with New York Governor Mario Cuomo. Bob,

[44:41] >> until then, I I had said what I said in

[44:43] 1988, which was in 1987, actually, that

[44:46] I didn't think they should invite me to

[44:48] a convention to speak because I had been

[44:50] given an opportunity in 1984.

[44:53] And you should select somebody like

[44:55] McCertie, and I named him like Nancy

[44:57] Pelosi. Put them up there, let them get

[45:00] the publicity, and then you've created a

[45:02] new force for your party. I said with me

[45:04] you get nothing additional you know

[45:07] whatever publicity I can get I got in

[45:10] 1984 so so my theory my logic was that

[45:14] uh you know let's do it for somebody

[45:16] else you've got me already um they

[45:18] didn't like the logic that was about 10

[45:20] days ago Dan we were just asking the

[45:23] governor before you came to us why and

[45:25] and when he decided to make this speech

[45:28] and when Governor Clinton uh asked him

[45:30] to do it and he I'm going to ask you

[45:32] again governor You just spoke to the uh

[45:35] to Governor Clinton after making the

[45:36] speech and and tell us what he said.

[45:39] >> Well, Governor Clinton said uh he he

[45:41] liked the speech a lot and I told the

[45:43] governor that it was a very easy speech

[45:45] to make. Uh that as a lawyer, I've made

[45:48] some cases for people where I had to

[45:50] strain. But that's not the case with

[45:52] Bill Clinton. I told him that there's a

[45:54] lot more I can say on his behalf and Al

[45:56] Gore's behalf and Matilda and I and

[45:59] everybody in this state who are

[46:01] Democrats are going to be doing that

[46:02] between now and the campa campaign's end

[46:05] on election day.

[46:06] >> Governor, thank you very much. Back to

[46:07] you, Dan.

[46:08] >> Thanks, Bob. And Governor Cuomo has that

[46:11] smile and that easy, relieved, relaxed,

[46:14] confident look he thinks he knows he put

[46:17] it in the upper deck here for Bill

[46:18] Clinton tonight. Bill Clinton counting

[46:20] on Mario Cuomo to help him make it with

[46:23] northern urban bluecollar workers who

[46:26] the last three elections have voted

[46:29] Republican where before they voted

[46:30] Democrat. Our CBS News coverage of the

[46:32] National Democratic Convention will

[46:34] continue in a moment. So stay here with

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[47:51] >> CBS News live coverage of the Democratic

[47:53] National Convention will continue.

[47:57] >> While he's polishing the Big Apple,

[47:59] these people are polishing his image.

[48:01] Who are they and how are they doing it?

[48:02] Find out tomorrow. Also, if you think

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[48:27] This is CBS.

[48:59] Dave Thomas's daughter Wendy loves ranch

[49:02] dressing. So Dave rustled up a delicious

[49:04] new sandwich. Wendy's Monterey Ranch

[49:06] Chicken Sandwich. It's a whole chicken

[49:08] breast fillet with cheese. But not just

[49:11] any cheese, Monterey Jack. And to top it

[49:13] off, he cooked up a ranch dressing with

[49:15] an extra special touch. Real bacon. The

[49:18] Monterey Ranch Chicken Sandwich. A great

[49:21] new taste you can only find at Wendy's.

[49:24] >> Hey, Wendy.

[49:26] Oh well, I guess I have to eat it

[49:28] myself.

[49:30] >> A look back at the 82 World's Fair

[49:31] tonight at 10 on News Channel 5.

[49:40] Campaign 92. CBS News coverage of the

[49:44] Democratic National Convention

[49:46] continues.

[49:47] Live from Madison Square Garden in New

[49:50] York City, here again is Dan Rather. And

[49:53] on the floor of the Democratic National

[49:55] Convention, the first first faint

[49:58] indications these Democrats, rightly or

[50:01] wrongly, are beginning to believe that

[50:03] they smell a win in November. Sometimes

[50:07] it goes that way at conventions. You

[50:08] begin to sort of feel it and smell it.

[50:11] Sometimes it's actually there, sometimes

[50:12] it isn't. We'll see as time goes along.

[50:15] Right now, let's go to Ed Bradley who's

[50:16] in the Pennsylvania delegation with a

[50:18] selfdescribed one-time radical. He's now

[50:21] for Bill Clinton. Ed, what's the story?

[50:23] >> Dan, I'm I'm with a man who I think it

[50:26] represents much of the change that

[50:28] you've seen in the Democratic party over

[50:30] the last 10, 15, 20 years. John Street,

[50:33] when I met him in the early '7s, was a

[50:35] classic outsider along with his brother

[50:37] Milton. A radical, a demonstrator, a

[50:40] demonstrator, a protester. He was

[50:41] arrested how many times?

[50:44] >> Many times. many times today. He's

[50:46] president of the city council in

[50:47] Philadelphia. What do you think of this

[50:50] ticket?

[50:51] >> Well, I I think that that this ticket is

[50:54] is going to sell. Uh what people people

[50:57] are concerned about what's happening in

[50:59] this country. The cities are in terrible

[51:02] terrible problems. Uh in the city of

[51:04] Philadelphia, we are totally unable to

[51:06] cope with the with the problems that we

[51:08] have, drugs and crime and uh the need

[51:12] for health care and the like. And we

[51:14] know that we're going to have to do

[51:15] something in Washington to solve those

[51:17] problems. And I think that uh this

[51:20] convention and the way the Clinton

[51:22] people uh and the the national committee

[51:25] have handled it, it's going to give us a

[51:28] leg up on on the November election. And

[51:30] I think that people are are really going

[51:33] to be enthusiastic that there can really

[51:36] be some change. Some people have said

[51:38] that this was a ticket that was aiming

[51:39] more at the suburbs than people in the

[51:42] cities. You agree? disagree.

[51:44] >> Well, I I really can't tell you why they

[51:48] put the ticket together the way they

[51:50] did. I mean, Clinton, I think, had a

[51:52] right to pick the person with whom he

[51:55] was going to feel most comfortable. But

[51:56] this business of regionalism hasn't ever

[51:58] worked for us in the last several year c

[52:01] campaigns, and I don't know why there's

[52:02] any reason we should stick to it now.

[52:04] >> One quick question, John. You

[52:05] enthusiastic about this ticket?

[52:07] >> Oh, yeah. I'm enthusiastic about the

[52:09] ticket. I'm enthusiastic about the party

[52:11] and I'm enthusiastic about the way this

[52:13] convention has been run and the hope

[52:16] that it gives us for November. Thank you

[52:17] very much, Dan. Back to you, Ed Bradley.

[52:20] Thanks. And from the floor of the

[52:22] convention, we're going to try to

[52:23] something a little new here and let's

[52:24] carry on a conversation with the former

[52:27] governor of Massachusetts, one-time

[52:29] candidate for president of the United

[52:30] States, Michael Dakus, and his lovely

[52:32] wife, Kitty Dakus, who some distance

[52:34] from us up a little closer to the

[52:36] rafters. Thank you very much for being

[52:37] with us, Governor. and Mrs. Dakus,

[52:39] thanks for having us in. Uh, Governor

[52:41] Dakus,

[52:42] >> you got to have some regret that being

[52:45] nominated here tonight was Bill Clinton

[52:47] and not Michael Dakus being nominated

[52:49] for a second term. I don't have any

[52:52] regrets about Bill Clinton being

[52:53] nominated. I've known him for 15 years,

[52:55] Dan. He's one of the best people I've

[52:56] ever served with in public life. Would I

[52:58] like to be here as a candidate for

[53:00] re-election? Sure, I would. But it

[53:02] didn't happen. We've got a great ticket.

[53:04] We've got a great opportunity here to

[53:06] provide this country with new

[53:07] leadership. and I'm as enthusiastic as

[53:09] anybody in this hall and a lot a lot of

[53:11] people outside about this ticket. Uh

[53:13] it's been a great convention and they're

[53:15] going to go out of here with a lot of

[53:17] enthusiasm, a lot of energy and and lots

[53:20] of opportunity to win this thing. The

[53:22] governor, there is some indication now

[53:25] that Bill Clinton may actually come out

[53:26] of this convention leading in the pose

[53:29] as you did coming out of Atlanta in

[53:31] 1988. What are the dangers for him if he

[53:33] walks out of here with momentum going

[53:34] his way and even leading in the pose? I

[53:37] respect you and I respect uh all of the

[53:39] folks in the national media. I have one

[53:41] urgent request. Stop taking polls. Um

[53:45] they don't mean anything at this point.

[53:46] The only thing these polls tell us is

[53:48] that about 75% of the American people

[53:50] want a new president. And Bill Clinton

[53:52] and Al Gore now have to go out across

[53:54] this country and persuade

[53:56] an angry, frustrated, but always hopeful

[53:58] electorate that they are the people to

[54:00] provide this country with the leadership

[54:01] we need. But these polls aren't worth

[54:04] the power to blow them to hell, to tell

[54:05] you the truth, at this point. What's

[54:07] important now is for us to focus on

[54:08] issues, for them to go out there across

[54:10] the country and talk about their vision

[54:12] for this country. If they do that,

[54:13] they're going to win. And I think

[54:14] they're going to win decisively.

[54:16] >> Mrs. Dakus, if I can bring you into this

[54:18] for a moment, obviously, in fact,

[54:20] Governor Clinton has confirmed the

[54:21] decision was made some time ago, try to

[54:23] lower the profile and change the

[54:25] direction of Mrs. Clinton's campaigning.

[54:28] You think that was a mistake?

[54:30] >> Well, I think that you have to make

[54:31] adjustments in campaigns. And I've known

[54:34] Hillary as I've known Bill Clinton for

[54:36] close to 15 years. She is an

[54:38] extraordinary woman with wonderful

[54:41] qualities. She will be a great first

[54:43] lady and I think she is doing what

[54:46] spouses need to do in her position. She

[54:49] is making adjustments and I think that's

[54:51] just fine. I think she has

[54:55] >> been a a uh model for people all over

[54:58] this country and will continue to be. I

[55:01] applaud all of her efforts and I just

[55:04] think she will be a terrific first lady

[55:06] of this country. She is a woman of the

[55:09] 90s.

[55:10] >> Governor Caucus, very quickly, uh, this

[55:12] ticket obviously has a lot of southern

[55:14] comfort in it. Does it have a chance to

[55:16] carry the big industrial northeastern

[55:18] states? It must be

[55:20] >> I think so, Dan. You know, um, for one

[55:23] thing, Al Gore is a national figure in

[55:24] his own right. Bill Clinton now is is

[55:26] known across this country. Um, and I

[55:29] think the advantages of of regional

[55:31] balance have been exaggerated. Sure. Uh,

[55:34] I think it was an extra bonus for uh me

[55:36] to pick a Lloyd Benson who happened to

[55:38] come from Texas, but frankly, if he'd

[55:39] come from Montana, I would have picked

[55:40] him. If he'd come from Mississippi, I

[55:42] would have picked him. I picked him

[55:43] because he could be a great president if

[55:46] called upon to do so and would have been

[55:48] a very strong and good vice president.

[55:50] And knowing Bill Clinton, as I do, I

[55:51] know that's exactly why he picked Al

[55:53] Gore. I think Al Gore will be

[55:54] tremendously helpful to this ticket in

[55:56] the West because of environmental

[55:57] leadership. I think he's going to have

[55:59] great appeal for us in the Northeast

[56:01] because he's done so much in in the area

[56:03] of new technologies and competitive

[56:05] industries and these kinds of things.

[56:07] So, I think he provides some very real

[56:09] national balance and the fact that these

[56:12] two candidates happen to come from

[56:13] Arkansas and Tennessee, I think is is is

[56:16] really irrelevant in in a broad national

[56:18] sense. They're going to be a good

[56:19] national ticket.

[56:20] >> Governor Dauus, Mrs. Caucus, thank you

[56:21] very much for being with us. Our CBS

[56:24] News coverage from the floor of the

[56:25] National Democratic Convention continues

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[59:23] >> On the floor of the convention in

[59:25] Madison Square Garden, all the talk as

[59:27] you expect would be is about Governor

[59:29] Mary Cuomo's nominating speech tonight

[59:32] for Bill Clinton. There's other good

[59:34] news for Bill Clinton and Bob Sheeper on

[59:36] the podium has more about that. Bob.

[59:38] >> Thank you, Dan. As we went on the air,

[59:40] we were saying that some polling CBS

[59:42] News has been doing this week shows that

[59:45] this convention is beginning to work for

[59:47] Governor Clinton, creating the

[59:49] impression outside this home. Uh

[59:51] changing the impression of Bill Clinton

[59:53] outside this home. We now have a moment

[59:55] and we can give you some of those

[59:56] numbers. Look at these figures. 3 weeks

[59:58] ago, Bill Clinton had an unfavorable

[60:00] rating of 40% and it had been that way

[60:03] for months. Last week, that dipped down

[60:05] to 31% and since his convention has been

[60:09] on this week, according to our new

[60:11] polling, it is shrunk to 24%. Now, that

[60:14] is just a part of it. His favorable

[60:16] rating, which was at 16% in June, uh

[60:20] rose to 20% last week and then jumped to

[60:23] 29%

[60:24] this week. So, for the first time since

[60:27] March, Bill Clinton's favorable rating

[60:29] is running higher than his unfavorable

[60:31] rating. There's some more good news in

[60:33] the poll for Clinton. Only 40% looked on

[60:36] him as a strong leader last week. Since

[60:38] a convention began this week, that

[60:40] percentage has risen to 60%. And he is

[60:44] now looked on as a candidate who can

[60:45] best bring about change. 41% felt that

[60:49] way about him last week, compared to 30%

[60:52] who see Perau as a candidate of change.

[60:55] And now only 15% feel that way about

[60:57] George Bush. I should say this week 41%

[61:01] now see Bill Clinton as a candidate of

[61:03] change as you and I know. Uh Dan. Uh