Democratic National Convention footage - 1968-08-28 - 8
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[0:02] it's
[0:37] [Applause]
[0:54] Mr
[0:56] chairman Mr Speaker
[1:00] fellow
[1:01] delegates and fellow
[1:05] Americans I've come to this platform
[1:08] tonight to place in
[1:10] nomination for the office of President
[1:13] of the United States the name of Senator
[1:16] Eugene J McCarthy of Minnesota
[1:35] [Applause]
[1:56] I do not speak for myself alone
[2:00] but for millions of Americans who
[2:02] believe this man has brought New Hope
[2:05] and New options to
[2:07] America we're in the midst of what can
[2:10] only be called a revolution in our
[2:12] domestic affairs and in our foreign
[2:15] policy as well and as the late President
[2:18] Kennedy once said those who would make
[2:21] peaceful Revolution impossible make
[2:24] violent revolution inevitable
[2:31] in this time of unprecedented crisis the
[2:34] nomination for the presidency is more
[2:37] than the selection of an able and a
[2:39] qualified individual for the office we
[2:42] must have bold leadership willing to
[2:45] undertake the basic changes in our
[2:48] political system that are so necessary
[2:51] to its
[2:52] survival we must seek a leader who can
[2:56] arrest the polarization in our society
[2:59] the AL alienation of the blacks from the
[3:01] whites the halves from the hav kns and
[3:05] the old from The Young we must choose a
[3:08] man with the wisdom and the courage to
[3:10] change the direction of our foreign
[3:12] policy before it commits us for an
[3:15] eternity to a maze of foreign
[3:18] involvements without clear purpose or
[3:21] moral
[3:23] justification but most of all the man we
[3:26] nominate must embody the aspirations of
[3:30] all those who seek to lift mankind to
[3:33] its Highest
[3:34] Potential he must have that rare
[3:38] intangible quality that can lift up our
[3:41] hearts and cleans