especially thank you for choosing as my running mate the best partner any president ever had, fritz mondale. [applause] carter: with gratitude and with determination, i accept your nomination. [cheers and applause] carter: and i am proud to run on the progressive and sound platform that you have hammered out at this convention. [applause] president carter: fritz and i will mount a campaign that defines the real issues, a campaign that responds to the intelligence of the american people, a campaign that talks sense. and we're going to beat the republicans in november! [applause] president carter: we'll win because we are the party of a great president who knew how to get reelected, franklin delano roosevelt. [applause] carter: and we are the party of a courageous fighter who knew how to give 'em hell -- harry truman. [applause] president carter: and as truman said, he just told the truth and they thought it was hell. [laughter] president carter and we're the : party of a gallant man of john fitzgerald kennedy. [applause] president carter and we're the : party of a great leader of lyndon bain

of our work, there wasn't much difference between john tower and frank church or john tower and fritz mondale and he was essential, i believe, to our winning and winning when we did in getting the documents. >> in response to the question about the white house, i think in general, the white house position with respect to the committee was they wanted to be able to preemppreempt the commi and thereby h led by rockefeller they thought if looking at intelligence activities in response to the public concern over them, that you could pre pree.the work. and in that sense, there was a -- maybe we can manage our way out of this, limit what the committee does, limit the documents and access to people otherwise available, but in the end, that just didn't work. >> we're about to show 45 minutes of this segment of the church committee's work. you referenced earlier that there was anotherer informant by the name of mary joe cook. and she represents investigating people that protested the war in vietnam. so, we should not be remisin talking about her. who was she and what did the committee want to learn fr

>> well, right after i made that statement, fritz mondale who was really the hero of the committee on the fbi side, everybody was a hero but he was a special one, he asked me a question. >> if i could interrupt. that was taken by dr. king to mean a suggestion for suicide, was it not? >> that's our understanding, senator. >> and the answer was, it was intended and it was taken as an effort by the king family and the king associates like andy young to get him to commit suicide. hoover hated king, j. edgar hoover hated king. a. hoover had a negative view of what were then called negroes, indeed on the very afternoon of king's "i have a dream" speech in washington, d.c., in the bowels of the fbi's office, they resolved to destroy martin luther king. and they set out to do that in lots of ways. they persuaded the kennedy brothers to agree to wire-tapping of king and king's close associates. they did that, we later discovered, by exaggerating the role of an adviser to king, his closest white advise her, stanley leave levison who had been part of the kmcommunist pay but left the party and th