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thank you very much. thank very much. while the. eloquent. or eloquent introduction.

a great woman for economic democracy and social justice in this country. i thank you for your eloquent introduction. well they worked out a little different from the way i thought, but let me tell you, i still love new york. my fellow democrats and my fellow americans. i have come here tonight, not to argue as a candidate, but to affirm a cause. i'm asking you. i am asking you to renew the

commitment of the democratic party to economic justice. i am asking you to renew our commitment to welfare and lasting prosperity that can put america back to work. this is the cause that brought me into the campaign and that sustained me for nine months across a hundred thousand miles. in 40 different states, we had our losses. but the pain of our defeat is far, far less than the pain of the people that i have met. we have learned that it is important to take seriously, but

never to take ourselves too seriously. the serious issue before us tonight is the cause for which the democratic party has stood in its finest hours. the cause that keeps our party young and makes it in the second century of its age. the largest political party in this republic and longest lasting political party on this planet. our cause has been since the days of thomas jefferson. the of the common man and the common woman.

our commitment has been since the days of andrew jackson to all those he call the humble members of society. the farmers, mechanics and laborers on this foundation then we have defined our values redefined policies and reform our faith. now i take the step of carrying the cause and the commitment of my campaign personally to our national convention. i speak of a deep sense of urgency, about the anguish and anxiety i have seen across america. i speak out of a deep belief in the ideals of the democratic and in the potential of that party and of a president to make difference. and i speak, out of a deep trust

in our capacity, proceed with boldness and a common vision that will feel and heal the suffering of our time and the division of our party. the economic of this platform on its face concerns only material things. but it is also a moral issue that i raised. and tonight it has taken many forms over many years in this campaign and in this country that we seek lead. the challenge in 1980 is to give our voice and our vote for these fundamental democratic principles. let us pledge that we will never

misuse unemployment, high interest rates and human misery as false weapons against inflation. let us pledge that will be the first priority of our economic policy. let us that there will be security for all those who are now at work. and let us pledge that there will be jobs for all who are out of work. and we will not compromise. on the issues of job.

these not simplistic pledges. simply put, are at the heart of our tradition. and they have been the soul of our party across the generations. it is the glory and the greatness of our tradition to speak for. those who have no voice to remember, those who are forgotten, to respond to the frustration and fulfill the aspirations of all americans seeking a better life and a better. land. we dare not forsake th tradition. we cannot let the great purposes of the democratic party become the bygone of history history. we must not permit the republican to seize and run on the slogans of prosperity.

we heard the orators at their convention all trying to talk like democrats. they proved that even republicans can quote franklin through their own purpose. the grand old party thinks it has found a great new prey. but 40 years ago, an earlier generation of republicans attempted the same threat. and franklin roosevelt himself replied. both republican leaders have bitterly fought and blocked the forward surge of average men and women in their pursuit of happiness. let us not be deluded that overnight those leaders have become the friends of average men and women.

you know, he continued, very few of us are that gullible. and four years later, when the republicans that trick again, franklin roosevelt asked, can the old guard pass itself off as the new deal. i think not. we have all seen many marble stunts in the circus, but no performer being elephant head per handspring without falling flat on its back.

the 1980 republican convention was a war with crocodile tears for our economic distress. but it is by their long record and not their recent words that you shall know them. the same republican who are talking about the crisis of have nominated a man once said, and i quote, unemployment insurance is prepaid. vacation plan for freeloaders. and that nominee is no friend of labor. the same republicans who are talking the problems of the inner city have nominated a man who said, and i quote, i have included in my morning and

evening prayers every day the prayer that the federal government not bail new york. and that nominee, no friend of this city and our great urban centers across the nation nation. they say public enemy who are talking about secure for the elderly have nominated a man who said just four years ago that participation in social security should be made voluntary and that nominee is no friend of the senior citizens of this nation. the same republicans who are talking about preserve the

environment have a man who last year made the preposterous statement and i quote 80% of our air pollution comes from plants and rays. and that nominee is no friend of the environment. and the same republican who are invoking franklin roosevelt have nominated a man who said in 1976 and these are his exact words fascism was really basis of the new deal. and that nominee whose name is ronald reagan, has no right to quote franklin delano roosevelt.

the great advances which are opponents offer is a voyage into the past. progress is our heritage, theirs. what is right us as democrats is also right way for democrats to win. the commitment i seek not outworn views, old values that will never wear out progress which may sometimes become

obsolete. but the ideal of fairness always endures circa and stances may change. but the work of compassion must continue. it is surely correct that we cannot solve problems throwing money at them. but it is also correct that we dare not throw out our national problems. on pure scrap heap of inattention, indifference. the poor may be out of political fashion, but they are not without human needs. the middle class be angry, but they have not lost the dream that all cannot band together. to demand the demand of people in 1980 is not for smaller government, bigger government, but for better government. some say that government is

always and that spending for basic social programs is the root of our economic evils. but we reply, by the present inflation and recession, cost our economy $200 billion a year. we reply. inflation and unemployment are the biggest spenders. all. the task of leadership in 1980 is not to parade scapegoats or to seek refuge in reaction, but to match our power to the possibilities of progress. while others talked of free enterprise, it was the democratic party that acted and we ended excessive regulation in the airline and trucking industry. and we restored competition to the marketplace. and i take some satisfied action that this deregulation that i sponsored and passed in the congress of the united states. as democrats, we recognize that

each of americans has a rendezvous with a different reality. the answers of one generation, and become the questions of the next generation. but there is a guiding star in the american firmament. it is as old as revolutionary belief that all people are created equal and as clear as the contemporary condition of liberty city in the south bronx, again and again, democratic leaders have followed that star and they have given new meaning to the old values of liberty and justice for all. we are the party. we are the party. the new freedom. the new deal and the new frontier. we have always been the party

hope. so this year let us offer new hope. new hope to an america uncertain about the present. but unsurpassed in its potential for the future. to all those who idle in the cities and industries of america. let us provide new hope for the dignity of useful work. democrats have always believed that a basic civil right of all americans is that their right to earn their own way. the party of the people must always be the party of employment. to those who the future of our economy. let us provide new hope for the re industrialization of america and let our vision reach beyond the next election or the next year to a new generation of prosperity. if we could rebuild germany and

japan after world war two, then surely we can re industrialized our own nation revive our inner cities in the 1980. to all those who work hard for a living wage. let us provide new hope that their price of their employment shall not be an unsafe workplace and a death. at an earlier age. all those who inhabit our land from california to the new york island, from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters. let us provide new hope that prosperity shall not be purchased by poisoning the air, the rivers and the natural

resources that are the greatest of this continent. we we must insist that our children and our grandchildren shall inherit the land which they can truly call america the beautiful. to all who see the worth of their work and their savings taken by. let us offer new hope for a stable economy. we must meet the pressures of the present by invoking the full power of government. promised to increasing prices in. canada we must say that the federal budget can be balanced only policies that bring us to a balanced prosperity of poland ployment and price restraint.

and to all those overburdened by an unfair tax structure. let us provide new hope for real reform. instead, shutting down classrooms. let us shut off tax shelters. instead of cutting out school lunches. let us cut off tax subsidies for expensive business lunches that are nothing more than food stamps for. the rich. the tax cut of our republic opponents takes the name of tax reform in vain. it is a wonderfully republican idea that would redistribute

income in the wrong direction. it's good news for any of you with incomes over $200,000 a year for the few of you. it offers a pot of gold worth $14,000. but the republic in tax cut is bad news for the middle income families. but to many of you, they plan a pittance, a few hundred dollars a year. and that is not what the democratic party means when we say tax reform. the vast of americans cannot afford this panacea from a republican who has denounced the progressive income tax as the invention of karl marx. i am afraid he has confused karl marx with theodore roosevelt.

that, your republican who saw and fought for a tax system based on ability to pay. theodore roosevelt well, it was not karl marx and the republicans scheme is not tax reform. finally, we cannot have a fair prosperity in isolation from a fair society. so i will continue to stand for a national health insurance. we must we must not surrender. we must not surrender to the

relentless medical inflation that can bankrupt almost and that may soon break the budgets of government at every level. let us insist on real control over what doctors and hospitals can charge. and let us resolve that the state of a family's health shall never depend on the size of a family's as well. the president, the vice president, the members of congress have a medical plan that meets their needs and full. and whenever senate and representatives hatch a little cold the capital physician will see them immediately treat them promptly fill a prescription on the spot. we do not get a bill even if we ask for it. and when do you think was the

last time a member of congress for a bill from the federal government. and i say again, as i have before. if health insurance is good enough for the president, vice president, the congress of the united, then it's good enough for you and every family in america. there were some there were some who said should be silent about our difference on issues during

this convention. but the heritage of the democratic party has been a history of democracy. we fight hard because care deeply about our principles and purposes. we did not flee the struggle. we welcome the contrast with the empty and expedient spectacle last month in detroit. where no nomination was contested no question was debated. and no one dared to raise any doubt or dissent. than democrats can be proud that we chose a different course and a different platform. we can be proud that our party stands for and based investment and safe energy instead of a nuclear future that may threaten the future itself.

we must not permit the neighborhoods of america to be permanently shadowed. the fear of another three mile island. we can be proud that our party stands for our fair housing law. unlock the doors of discrimination once and for all. the house will be divided against itself so long there is prejudice against any buying or a home. and we can proud that our party stands plainly and publicly and persistent only for the ratification. the equal rights amendment. women hold their rightful place

at our convention, and women must have their rightful place in the constitution. the united states. on this issue, we will not yield. we will not equivocate. we will not rationalize. explain or excuse. we will stand for and for the recognition at long last, that our nation made up of founding mothers as well as founding fathers. a fair prosperity and a just society are within our vision and our grasp. and we do not have every. there are questions not yet

asked, waiting for us in the recesses of the future. but of this much we can be certain because it is the of all of our history together a president and the people can make a difference. i have found that faith alive wherever i have traveled across this land. so let us reject the counsel of retreat and the call to action. let us go forward. the knowledge that history only helps those who help themselves. there will be setbacks and sacrifices in the years ahead. but i am convinced that we a people are ready to give something back to our in return for all it has given to us us. let this let this be. our commitment. whatever sacrifice faces must be

made will be shared and shared fairly. and let this be our confidence. at the end of our journey and always us times that ideal of liberty and justice for all. in closing, let me say a few words to all those that i have met and to all those who have supported at this convention and across the country. there were hard hours on our journey, and often we sailed against the wind, but always kept our rudder true. and there were so many of who stayed the course and shared our hope. you gave your help, but even more. you gave your heart because of you. this has been a happy campaign. you're welcome.

joan bey and our family. and to your homes and neighborhoods, your churches, your campuses is your union hall. and when i think back of all the miles and all the months and all the memories, i think of you and i recall the poet's words and i say, what golden friends i had among you, my golden friends across this land. i have listened and learned. i have listened to kenny dubois, a glassblower in charleston west virginia, who has penned children to support, but has lost his job after 35 years. just three years short of qualifying for his pension. i have listened through the track to family who farm in iowa and who wonder whether they can pass good life and the good on to their children. i have listened to the grandmother east lausanne in east oakland who no longer has a phone to call her grandchildren

because she gave it up to pay the rent on small apartment. i listened to young workers out of work. the students without the tuition for college and the families without the chance to own a home. i have seen the closed factories and the stalled assembly lines abandoned indiana and southgate, calif. and i have seen too many, far too many idle men and women desperate to work. i have seen too many, far, too many working families, desperate protect the value of their wages from the ravages of inflation. yet i have also sensed yearning for new hope among the people in every state where i have been and i have felt it their handshake. i saw it in faces, and i shall never forget the mothers who carry children who are rallies. i shall always remember the elderly who have lived in an america of high purpose and who believe that it can happen again tonight in their name. i have come here to speak for

them and for their sake, i ask you to stand with them on their behalf. i ask you to restate and reaffirm the timeless truth of our party. i congratulate carter on his victory here. i am. i am confident that the democratic party will reunite on the basis of democratic principles and that together will march toward a democratic victory in 1980.

and someday long after this convention. long after the signs come down and the crowd stopped cheering. and the band stop playing. may it be said of our campaign that we kept the faith. may it be said of our party 1980, that we found our faith again. and may it be said of us both in dark passages and bright days, in the words tennyson, that my brothers quoted and loved, and that have special meaning for me now i am a part of all that i have met. too much has taken. much abides that which we are. we are one equal temper of heroic hearts strong and will to strive to see, to find and not yield. for a few hours ago, this campaign came to end.

for all those whose cares have been our concern. the work goes on. the cause endures. the hope still lives. and the dream shall never die.