CBS News Democratic Convention first half-hour - 1956-08-13
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[0:15] thank you
[0:25] National Convention
[0:28] of the democratic party will now come to
[0:31] order
[0:41] Mr chairman
[0:43] and members of this convention
[0:47] it is a genuine pleasure
[0:50] and a high privilege for me to present
[0:54] this gavel
[0:57] to you and to this convention
[1:02] this gamble was made from a hickory
[1:06] which grew at the little white house
[1:09] Warm Springs the Georgia home of our
[1:14] great president the late Franklin D
[1:17] Roosevelt
[1:20] foreign
[1:57] but downtown Chicago and the hotels
[1:59] where delegations are caucusing and
[2:01] where they vote the battle for ballots
[2:04] in the nominating balloting coming later
[2:07] this week is taking place one of those
[2:09] reports is ready for us now as our
[2:10] newsmen mess up them out Richard
[2:12] cottleett is in the Hilton hotel lobby
[2:14] with representative John Morse of
[2:16] California come in deck the first real
[2:19] news break water has been that the
[2:21] platform drafting subcommittee has
[2:23] finished the first two planks of its
[2:24] platform representative John Moss of
[2:26] California is one of the leading members
[2:28] Mr Moss will you tell us what you have
[2:30] just concluded we've concluded the
[2:31] platform on atomic energy and the
[2:34] platform on domestic policy the atomic
[2:37] energy platform is a six point
[2:39] restatement of a conviction that we must
[2:42] have a return to bipartisan
[2:45] 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
[2:54] step up the reactor development program
[2:57] so that the United States again can be
[2:59] the preeminent power in the field of
[3:02] atomic energy you mean government
[3:03] support fo