CBS News - 1976 Republican Convention - Night 2 (end)
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[0:06] have no consensus on this issue in our
[0:10] Republican party or on our platform
[0:13] committee no matter what the platform
[0:16] says not a single mind will be
[0:19] changed attempting to bind many of our
[0:22] candidates to a position they cannot
[0:25] support does only
[0:27] harm the Democrats made a mistake take
[0:30] on this issue by improperly binding all
[0:32] of their candidates to a rigid point of
[0:34] view there is no need for us to repeat
[0:37] it the inclusion of an anti-abortion
[0:41] plank in the Republican platform would
[0:44] be a tragic mistake for our minority
[0:47] party and for our
[0:53] candidates for this reason we have filed
[0:57] this Minority Report in our liberations
[1:00] of this Minority Report the suggestion
[1:03] was made that we select women speakers
[1:06] as the abortion issue is a women's
[1:09] issue obviously it takes a Man Too
[1:13] therefore I yield the remainder of our a
[1:15] lot of time to Dr George wood delegate
[1:18] from Maine and representative of the
[1:20] platform kmini thank
[1:22] you not was primarily the position of of
[1:26] the anti-abortion or the pro-abortion
[1:29] people
[1:30] the antiabortion amendment seems that
[1:33] the Reagan's chances for presidential
[1:36] nomination are considered finished by a
[1:38] lot of people on the floor of this
[1:40] convention hall and Mike Wallace is
[1:41] finding a movement on the floor to put
[1:43] him on the Ford ticket now as a Vice
[1:45] Presidential nominee Mike and one of the
[1:47] leaders of that movement one of the
[1:49] leaders of that movement is Gil
[1:51] carmichel of the state of Mississippi
[1:52] who backs President Ford do I understand
[1:55] Mr carmichel that there is a real move
[1:57] of foot in certain Southern de