have lived what they've said. they've given us great advice and we know works because they've lived that advice. please join me in thanking for their experience and their

oh. and as you can see, he is working his way through the crowd. a powerful way of sorts has been cleared for shaking hands as we go. this is as well stage managed from entrance for a nominee.

as i have seen in a number of conventions entering through the delegate, not being behind the off. now walking up the steps in the back of the restroom and with from the back of. that for amy. amy.

were footing the in the well to

up to the podium. and entered the hall about 4 minutes ago. i feel good that his mother was william, 77 years old. his daughter amy. rosalynn carter, with this daughter.

how sweet it is that it flew today. i wonder, how's his mother was a picture of the day just done in the life of her son. nominated both. you know, even when a candidate

wins the election and becomes president, he doesn't do it in such circumstances as bush. he's not in a huge hall. he's probably in a hotel somewhere. my name is jimmy carter, and i'm running for president. as well. it's been a long time since i said those words the first time. and now come here.

after seeing our great country to accept your nomination. i accept it. and the words of john f kennedy with a full and grateful heart. and with only one obligation to devote every effort of body, mind and spirit to lead our party back to victory and our nation back to greatness. it's a pleasure to be here with all you democrats.

and to say that i'll bicentennial celebration and our bicentennial convention has been one of decorum and order without any fights or free for all among democrats. that can only happen once every 200 years. with this kind of a united democratic party, we are ready and eager to take on the republicans. whichever republican party they decide to send against us in november. 1976 will not be a year of politics as usual.

it can be a year of inspiration and hope, and it will be a year of concern, of quiet and sober reassessment of our nation's character and purpose. a year when voters have already confounded the experts. and i guarantee you that it will be the year when we give the government of this country back to the people of this country. there is a new mood in america. we've been shaken by a tragic war abroad and by scandals and broken promises at home. our people are searching for new voices and new ideas and new

leaders. although government has its limits and cannot solve all our problems, we americans reject the view that we must be reconciled to failure and mediocre or to an inferior quality of life. well, i believe that we can come through this time of trouble stronger than ever. like troops who've been in combat, we've been put under fire. we've been disciplined. and we've been educated. guided by a lasting and simple moral values. we've emerged idealists without illusions, realists who still know the old dream of justice and liberty of country. and our community. this year we've had 30 state primary more than ever before, making it possible to take your

campaign directly to the people of america. the homes and shopping centers. the partnership lines and colleges, the beauty parlors and barber shops, the farmers markets and union hall. this has been a long and a personal campaign, a kind of humbling experience, reminding us that ultimate political influence rests not with the power brokers, but with the people. this has been a time for learning and for the exchange of ideas. a time of tough debate on the important issues facing our

country. this kind of debate is part of our tradition and as democrats, we are as to a great tradition. i have never met a democratic president, but i've always been a democrat. years ago, as a farm boy, sitting outdoors with my family on the ground in the middle of the night, gathered close to round battery radio connected to the automobile battery and listening to the democratic conventions in far off cities. i was a long way from the selection process. then i feel much closer to it than i. i was is a part of the man who was nominated by those distant

conventions and who inspired and restored this nation in its darkest hours. franklin d roosevelt. i. i was at a party of a fighting democrat who showed us that a common man could be an uncommon leader. harry s truman. ours is a party of a brave young president who called the young at heart, regardless of age, to seek a new frontier of national

greatness. john f kennedy. and ours is also the party of a great hearted texan who took office in a tragic hour and who went on to do more than any other president in this century to advance the cause of human rights. lyndon johnson.

now our party was built out of the sweatshops of the old law. east side, the dark mills of new hampshire, the blazing horse of illinois, the coal mines of pennsylvania. the hardscrabble farms of the southern coastal plains. and the unlimited frontiers of america. ours is a party that welcomed generations of immigrants. the --, the irish, italians, the poles, and all the other, and listed them in its ranks and fought the political battles that helped bring them into the american mainstream and they have shaped the character of our party.

that is our heritage. our party has not been perfect. we made mistakes and we paid for them. but ours is a tradition of leadership and compassion and progress. our leaders have fought for every piece of progressive legislation from our fda and rca to social security and civil rights in times of need. the democrats were there. but in recent years, our nation has seen a failure of leadership. we've been hurt and we've been disillusioned. we've seen a wall go up that separates us from our own government. we've lost some precious things

that historically have bound our people and our government together. we feel that moral decay has weakened our country, that it crippled by a lack of goals and values and that our public officials have lost faith in us. we've been a nation adrift too long. we've been without leadership too long. we've had divided and deadlocked government too long. we've been governed by veto too long. we've suffered enough at the hands of a tired and worn out administration without new ideas, without youth or vitality, without vision, and without the confidence of the

american people. there's a fear that our best years are behind us. but i say to you that our nation's best is still ahead. our country has lived through a time of torment. it's now time for healing. we want to have faith again. we want to be proud again. we just want the truth again. this time for the people who run the government and not the other way around.

it's time to honor and strengthen our families and our neighborhoods and our diverse cultures and customs. we need a democratic president and a congress to work in harmony for change with mutual respect for change and the open for change in next year. we're going to have that new leadership you can depend on. it's time for america to move and to speak, not with boasting and bold rage, but with a quiet strength. the dependance on affairs, not merely on the size of an arsenal, but on the nobility of ideals, and to govern at home,

not by confusion and crisis, but with grace and imagination and common sense. too many have had to suffer at the hands of a political and economic elite who have shaped the sturgeon and never had to account for mistakes, not to suffer from injustice. when unemployment. when unemployment prevailed. they never stand in line looking for a job. when deprivation results from a confused and bewildering welfare system. they never do without food or clothing or a place to sleep.

when the public schools are inferior or torn by strife, their children go to exclusive private school. and when the bureaucracy is bloated and confused, the powerful always manage to discover and occupy niches of special influence and privilege. an unfair tax structure serves their needs. and tight secrecy always seems to prevent reform.

all of us must be careful not to cheat each other too often. unholy, self-perpetuating alliance has never been formed between money and politics and the average citizen has been held at arm's length. each time our nation has made a serious mistake, the american people have been excluded from the process. the tragedy of vietnam and cambodia. the disgrace of watergate and the embarrassment of the cia. revelations could have been avoided if our government had simply reflected the sound judgment and a good common sense and a high moral character of the american people.

it's time for us to take a new look at our own government, to strip away the secrecy, to expose the unwarranted pressure of lobbyists, to eliminate ways to release ourselves of servants from bureaucratic power, to provide tough management, and always to remember that in any town or city, the mayor, the governor and the president represent exactly the same

constituents. as a governor. i had to deal each day with a complicated and confused and overlapping and wasteful federal government bureaucracy. as president, i want you to help me evolve an efficient, economical, purposeful and manageable government for our nation. now i recognize the difficulty, but if i'm elected, it's going to be done and you can depend on it.

we must strengthen the governments closest to the people. business, labor, agriculture, education, science, education and government should not struggle in isolation from one another, but should be able to strive toward mutual goals and shared opportunities. we should make major investments in people and not in buildings and weapons. the poor, the aged, the weak, the afflicted must be treated with respect and compassion and

with love. now, i've spoken a lot of times this year about love, but love must be aggressively translated into simple justice. the test of any government is not how popular it is with a powerful, but how honestly and fairly it deals with those who must depend. on it. it's time for a complete overhaul of our income tax system.

i still tell you it's a disgrace to the human rights. all my life i've heard promises about tax reform, but it never quite happens. with your help, we are finally going to make it happen and you're going to find it. here's something that can really help our country. it's time for a universal voter registration.

it's time for a nationwide, comprehensive health program for all our people. it's time to guarantee an end to discrimination because of race or sex by full involvement in the decision making processes of government by those who know what it is to suffer from discrimination. and they will be in the government if i'm elected.

it's time. it's time for the law to be enforced. we cannot educate children. we cannot create harmony among our people. we cannot preserve basic human freedom unless we have an orderly society. now, crime and a lack of justice or special accrual to those who

are least able to protect themselves. swift arrest and trial. fair and uniform punishment should be expected by anyone who would break the law. it's time. it's time for our government leaders to respect the law. no less than the homeless citizen. so that we can end once and for all a double standard of justice. i see no reason. i see no reason but big shot crooks should go free. and the poor ones go to jail.

a simple. a simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong. now, as an engineer, a planner, a business man, i seek clearly the value to our notion of a strong system of free enterprise based on increased productivity

and adequate wages. we, a democrat, believe that competition is better than regulation. and we intend to combine strong safeguards working servers with minimal intrusion of government in our free economic system. i believe i believe that anyone who's able to work on a work. ought to have a chance to work. we'll never have an end with an inflationary spiral. we will never have a balanced

budget, which i am determined to see as long as we have eight or 9 million americans out of work who cannot find a job. not any system of economics is bankrupt. if it's easy, the value of virtue in unemployment, we simply. we simply cannot check inflation by keeping people out of work. the foremost. the foremost responsibility of any president, above all, is to guarantee the security of our nation, a guarantee of freedom from the threat of successful attack or blackmail, and the ability with our allies to maintain peace.

but peace is not the middle absence of war. peace is action to stamp out international terrorism. these. peace is the unceasing effort to preserve human rights and. peace is a combined demonstrate of strength. and goodwill. we'll pray for peace and we will work for peace until we are removed from all nature for all time. the threat of nuclear destruction.

america's birth opened a new chapter in mankind's history. ours was the first nation to dedicate itself clearly to basic moral and philosophical principles that all people are created equal and endowed with an equitable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. the power of government is derived from the consent of the governed. this this national commitment was a singular act of wisdom and courage. and it brought the best and the bravest from other nations to our shores. it was a revolutionary development that captured the imagination of mankind. it created a basis for our unique role for america, that of

a partner in shaping more decent and just relations among people and among societies. today, 200 years later, we must address ourselves to that role both in what we do at home and how we act abroad among people everywhere who have become politically more alert, socially, more congested, and increasingly impatient with global inequities and and who are now organized, as you know, into some 150 different nations. this calls for nothing less than a sustained architectural effort to shape an international framework of peace within which our own ideal gradually can

become a global reality. our nation should always derive its character. directly from the people. and let this be the strength and the image to be presented to the world. the character of the american people. to our friends and allies. i say that what unites us through our common dedication to democracy is much more important than that which occasionally divides us. on economics of politics for the nation's that seek to lift themselves from poverty. i say that america shares your aspirations and extends its hand to you, to those nation states

that wish to compete with us. i say that we need a fair competition. i see it as an obstacle to wider cooperation and to all people. i say. that after 200 years, america still remains confident and youthful in its commitment to freedom and equality. and we always will be. during this election year. we candidates will ask you for your votes and from us will be demanded. our vision.

my vision of this nation and its future has deepened and matured during the 19 month that i've campaigned among you for president. i've never had more faith in america than i do today. we have an america that, in bob dylan's praise, is busy being born, not busy dying. we can have an american government that's turned away from scandal and corruption. an official sent racism and has once again as decent and competent as our people.

we can have an america that has reconciled its economic need with its desire for an environment that we can pass on with pride to the next generation. we can have an america that provides excellence in education to my child and your child and every child. we can have an america that encourages and takes pride in our ethnic diversity, in our religious diversity, our cultural diversity, knowing that out of this pluralistic heritage has come the strength and the vitality and the creativity that made us great and will keep

great. we can have an american government does not that does not oppress or spy on its own people. but respect our dignity and our privacy and our right to be, let alone. we can have an america where freedom, on the one hand and equality are on the other hand, a mutual, supportive and not in conflict. and where the dreams of our nation's first leaders are fully realized in our own day and age. and we can have an america which

harnesses the idealism of the student, the compassion of a nurse or the social worker, the determination of a farmer, the wisdom of a teacher, the practicality of the business leader, the experience of a senior citizen, and the hope of a labor to build a better life for us all. we can have it and we are going to have it. as i've said many times before, we can have an american president who does not govern negativism and fear of the

future, but with vigor and vision and aggressive leadership. a president who's not isolate it from the people, but who feels pain and shares your dreams and takes the strength and his wisdom and his courage from you. i see in america. on the move again, united, a diverse and vital and tolerant nation entering our third century with pride and

confidence. an america that lives up to the majesty of our constitution. and a simple decency of our people. this is the america we want. this is the america that we will now. we will go forward from this convention with some differences of opinion, perhaps, but nevertheless, united and i'll come. determination to make our country large and driving and generous spirit. once again, ready to embark on great national deeds.

and once again. as brothers and sisters, our hearts will swell. pride to call ourselves americans. thank you very much. for.

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live by well. that was that occurred. what happened after that first. asked you to wrap yourwell as o. rights leaders you you can do whatever but they my belief is, you know what's really unique about graceland archives is that it really tells us a complete story and it really is one of the largest archives dedicated to one individual that exists here in the united states in the archives at graceland, we have over 1.5 million artifacts,

everything documents to books, to wardrobe the spaces around thousand square feet. and it really gave us the opportunity to explore the collection and display things that might have never seen before. a lot of our visitors, of course, want to see jumpsuits. so we've over 30 of them on display throughout elvis presley's memphis. it's what people really connect because of shows and concerts, what they remember, cars. the cars are huge. if even if you're not an elvis fan, there's a lot of people that just love the car collection because he has such an amazing collection of cars, probably the biggest part of our collection or the biggest item in our collection, besides the mansion would be the lisa airplane, which that's always a big hit. elvis buys the plane in 1975 and uses it over 200 times in two years. and as you're driving down elvis presley boulevard. you can't but see it sitting right on the boulevard. probably one of the pieces that i thought i would never, ever

get a chance to see would be the cape that goes with is aloha from hawaii. eagle jumpsuit that he wore on january of 73 at the very end of the show, elvis tosses into the audience the cape that he has on the final song and it changed hands a couple of times in private. was it a private collection when the owner passed, he actually willed it back to the estate. so the owner of cancer, his name was andy kirn. he was in florida. after his passing. his mom calls, says andy had something that wanted to donate to graceland and. a week later, the cape was here and his only condition was that it always be on display and always his name attached to it. so it was pretty amazing. we actually got that in 1995 and it was its only missing stone. keep it up with the archives, not just displaying things, having things tell stories. it's also there's a lot of care, a lot of preservation in and

restoration work that goes on. we've had several items restored over the years including original musical equipment that's on display in the archives experience. there's also a car that probably was the most thing we ever did. it was the 1973 stutz blackhawk. it's the last car elvis. and we worked with a company in north carolina. did it, had the car shipped there, you know, kind of under hush conditions. we didn't want anyone to know was going on. it took several months trying to find the right tires and the right parts and everything that was needed to actually do the proper preservation of the car. it was really difficult simply because was one of the biggest projects we had taken on. probably the most challenging part an archives that contains basically almost everything under the sun is the fact that it contains everything under the sun and, you know, documents they get brittle if they get too dry, you don't want to have them

in a very dry atmosphere. but there are, you know, video footage and film and likes to be stored cold wardrobe needs to be stored at a certain temperature. so it's finding that happy medium in our archival storage that keeps everything at the proper preservation level. even though some things might like to be a little colder and some things might be a little bit warmer, having even balance since we have so many different materials stored in place and then the preservation of it all, our collection is relatively young compared to other collections. you know, we're not restoring, you know, 100 year old silks and we're not doing tapestries that, you know, were made, you know, several hundred years ago or, you know, like at the vatican or things like that. we're storing and caring for, you know, wool or 1970 plastic fruit that you see in the kitchen. so it really is that's probably the most challenging is the stability of the collection as

far as the material is made out of it. so young a lot of it is, you manmade, synthetic stuff. and people really don't know how it's going to react. you know, 100 years from now, you know, every collection is different and unique. this collection really tells elvis's complete story. it tells the story of a loving son tells the story of a friend, a father, a husband. it tells the story of. a teen idol, a hollywood leading man to a the king of rock and roll. basically, it really covers all gamuts and it helps give an insight into who elvis was not only the person, but also the