announcer 1: "american history tv" is on c-span3 every weekend featuring museum tours, archival films, discussions on the presidency, the civil war and more. you can watch these in their entirety at our website. here is a quick look at one of our programs. [applause] >> i will prove it to you in just a few minutes. [applause] this convention met to express the will and reaffirm the beliefs of the democratic party. there have been differences of opinion, and that is the democratic way. those differences have been settled by a majority vote as they should be. now it is time for us to get

together and to defeat the common enemy. and that is up to you. we will be working together for victory and a great cause. victory has become a habit of our party. it has been elected four times in succession, and i am collect -- convinced it will be elected a fifth time this november. [applause] the reason is the people know the democratic party is the people's party and the republican party is the party of special interests, and it always has been, always will be. [applause] the record of the democratic party is written in the accomplishments of the last 16 years. i don't need to repeat them. they have been very ably place before this convention by the keynote speaker, the candidate

or vice president and by the permanent chairman. look at onea short of our many programs available in its entirety at our website, c-span.org/history. "american history tv", exploring our nation's past every weekend on c-span three. new york congresswoman geraldine ferraro was the first woman nominated by a major party for a presidential ticket. she accepts the vice presidential nomination at the 1984 democratic national convention in san francisco. she and want to mondale -- walter mondale would lose to ronald reagan and george hw bush. ♪ ["new york"]

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ms. ferraro: ladies and gentlemen of the convention. [applause and cheers] ladies and gentlemen of the convention. [applause and cheers]

ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my name is geraldine ferraro. [applause and cheers] i stand before you to proclaim tonight, america is the land where dreams can come true for all of us. [applause and cheers] as i stand before the american people and think of the honor this great convention has bestowed upon me, i recall the

words of dr. martin luther king, jr., who made america stronger by making america more free. he said, "occasionally in life, there are moments which cannot be completely explained by words. their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart." tonight is such a moment for me. [applause and cheers] my heart is filled with pride.

my fellow citizens, i proudly accept your nomination for vice president of the united states. [applause and cheers] [chanting "gerry"] >> who do we want? >> gerry.

[repeated] [chanting "gerry"] ms. ferraro: and -- and -- and i am proud to run with a man who will be one of the great presidents of this century, walter f. mondale. [applause and cheers]

tonight, the daughter of a woman whose highest goal was a future for her children talks to our nation's oldest party about a future for us all. tonight, the daughter of working americans tells all americans that the future is within our reach, if we're willing to reach for it. [applause and cheers] tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from italy has been chosen -- [applause and cheers] has been chosen to run for president in the new land my father came to love. [applause]

our faith that we can shape a better future is what the american dream is all about. the promise of our country is that the rules are fair. if you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of america's blessings. those are the beliefs i learned from my parents. and those are the values i taught my students as a teacher in the public schools of new york city. [applause and cheers] at night, i went to law school. i became an assistant district attorney, and i put my share of criminals behind bars. [applause and cheers]

i believe if you obey the law, you should be protected. but if you break the law, you should pay for your crime. [applause and cheers] when i first ran for congress, all the political experts said a democrat could not win my home district in queens. but i put my faith in the people and the values that we shared. together, we proved the political experts wrong. [applause] in this campaign, fritz mondale and i have put our faith in the people. and we are going to prove the experts wrong again. [applause and cheers]

we are going to win. [applause and cheers] we are going to win, because americans across this country believe in the same basic dream. last week, i visited elmore, whereota, the small town -- [applause and cheers] elmore. the small town where fritz mondale was raised. and soon fritz and joan will visit our family in queens. [applause and cheers] 900 people live in elmore. in queens, there are 2,000 people on one block.

[applause] you would think we would be different, but we're not. children walk to school in elmore past grain elevators. in queens, they pass by subway stops. but no matter where they live, their future depends on education, and their parents are willing to do their part to make those schools as good as they can be. [applause and cheers] in elmore, there are family farms, in queens, small businesses. but the men and women who run them all take pride in supporting their families through hard work and initiative. on the fourth of july in elmore,

they hang flags out on main street. in queens, they fly them over grand avenue. but all of us love our country, and stand ready to defend the freedom that it represents. [applause and cheers] americans want to live by the same set of rules. but under this administration, the rules are rigged against too many of our people. it isn't right that every year, the share of taxes paid by individual citizens is going up, while the share paid by large corporations is getting smaller and smaller. [applause and cheers]

the rules say everyone in our society should contribute their fair share. it isn't right that this year, ronald reagan will hand the american people a bill for interest on the national debt larger than the entire cost of the federal government under john f. kennedy. our parents left us a growing economy. the rules say we must not leave our kids a mountain of debt. [applause and cheers] it isn't right that a woman should get paid $.59 on the dollar for the same work as a man. [applause and cheers]

if you play by the rules, you deserve a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. [applause and cheers] it isn't right that if trends continue by the year 2000 nearly all of the poor people in america will be women and children. the rules -- the rules of a decent society say, when you distribute sacrifice in times of

austerity, you don't put women and children first. [applause and cheers] it isn't right that young people today fear they won't get the social security they paid for, and that older americans fear that they will lose what they have already learned. social security is a contract between the last generation and the next, and the rules say, you don't break contracts. [applause and cheers]

we're going to keep faith with older americans. [applause and cheers] we hammered out a fair compromise in the congress to save social security. every group sacrificed to keep the system sound. it is time ronald reagan stopped scaring our senior citizens. [applause and cheers] it isn't right that young couples question whether to bring children into a world of 50,000 nuclear warheads. [applause and cheers]

that isn't the vision for which americans have struggled for more than two centuries. and our future doesn't have to be that way. change is in the air, just as surely as when john kennedy beckoned america to a new frontier, when sally ride rocketed into space -- [applause and cheers] and when reverend jesse jackson ran for the office of president of the united states. [applause and cheers] by choosing a woman to run for our nation's second highest

office, you send a powerful signal to all americans. there are no doors we cannot unlock. [applause and cheers] we will place no limits on achievement. if we can do this, we can do anything. [applause and cheers] tonight, we reclaim our dream. we're going to make the rules of american life work fairly for all americans again. [applause]

to an administration that would have us debate all over again whether the voting rights act should be renewed and whether segregated schools should be tax exempt, we say, mr. president, those debates are over. [applause] on the issue of civil, voting rights and affirmative action for minorities, we must not go backwards. we must and we will move forward to open the doors of opportunity.

[applause and cheers] to those who understand that our country cannot prosper unless we draw on the talents of all americans, we say, we will pass the equal rights amendment. [applause and cheers] applause]d

era!ra! era! >> the issue is not what america can do for women, but what women can do for america. [cheering] to the americans who will lead our country into the 21st century, we say we will not have a supreme court that turns the clock back to the 19th century.

[cheers and applause] rep. ferraro: to those concerned about the strength of american and family values, as i am, i say we are going to restore those values. love, caring, partnership -- by including and not excluding those whose beliefs differ from our own. because our own faith is strong, we will fight to preserve the freedom of faith for others. [cheers and applause]

to those working americans who fear that bank utilities and large special interests have a lock on the white house, we say join us. let's elect a people's president and let's have a government for and by the american people again. [cheers and applause] to an administration that would savage student loans and education at the dawn of a new technological age, we say you fit the classic definition of a cynic. you know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. [cheering]

to our students and their parents, we will insist on the highest standards of excellence. because the jobs of the future require skilled minds. to young americans that may be called to our country's service, we say, we know your generation will probably answer our country's call as each generation before you. this past year we remember the bravery and sacrifice of americans at normandy. pay tribute as we should have done years ago, to the unknown soldier, who represents all of the brave

americans who died in vietnam. [cheers and applause] rep. ferraro: let no one doubt, we will defend america's security and the cause of freedom around the world. but we want a president who tells us what america is fighting for, not just what we are fighting against. [cheers and applause] we want a president who will

defend human rights, not just where it is convenient, but wherever freedom is at risk. from chile to afghanistan, from poland to south africa. [applause] to those who have watched this administration's confusion in the middle east, as it is tilted first toward one, then another of israel's long-term enemies, and wonder, will america stand by her friends and sister democracies? we say, america knows who her friends are in the middle east and around the world. america will stand with israel always. [cheers and applause]

finally, we want a president who will keep america strong. but use that strength to keep america and the world at peace. a nuclear freeze is not a slogan. it is a tool for survival in the nuclear age. [cheers and applause] if we leave our children nothing else, let us leave them this earth as we found it, whole and green and full of life.

[cheers and applause] i know in my heart that walter mondale will be that president. [applause] a wise man once said, every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. if it is preserved jealously, it preserved jealously nd selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens, but if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies. my fellow americans, we can debate policies and programs. but in the end, what separates the two parties in this election

campaign is whether we use the gift of life for others or only ourselves. [cheers and applause] tonight, my husband john, and our three children are in this room with me. to my daughters, donna and laura, and my son john jr., i say, my mother did not break faith with me, and i will not break faith with you. [cheers and applause]

to all the children of america, i say the generation before ours kept faith with us. and like them, we will pass on to you, a stronger, more just america. thank you. [applause] [cheering] ♪ ["new york, new york" playing]

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♪ [cheers and applause] ["those were the days" playing] ♪ >> next week, it is the republicans turn, starting monday and for four days. the republican national convention, hear their vision for the future and their priorities for the next four years, what president trump and

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