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convention, future president warren g. harding said, "we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it, and more anxious about what it can do to exalt the nation." sound familiar? listen to this democrat 45 years later. >> ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. >> pelley: now to the history- protesters are having their say outside in public square. reporter: good evening, scott. we're three blocks away from the convention site fair. about an hour ago we had hundreds if not thousands of protesters who were here at the public square making their voices heard. we have video of them shoving each other when things got out of hand, but there is a technique that law enforcement have been using that sort of splits up the crowd. it's called the split and move back, and it appears to have been working. not just for this protest, but for other demonstrations across the weekend and over the past couple of days. again, they sort of cleared this space out pretty nice, pre

convention, future president warren g. harding said, "we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do to exalt the nation." sound familiar? listen to this democrat 45 years later. >> ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. >> pelley: now to the history-making nomination happening right here tonight. here's major garrett. >> it is my distinct honor and great pleasure to nominate donald j. trump for the office of president of the united states of america. [cheering and applause] >> reporter: it's the moment donald trump craved and the republican establishment dreaded, the roll call cementing him as the g.o.p. nominee. it opened day two of the convention. >> 36 votes for the next president of the united states, donald j. trump. >> reporter: donald trump, jr., will read the new york delegation's total and put his father other -- over the top and later gave prime time speech team trump hopes will be less controversial than hi

at the 1916 gop convention, future president warren g. harding said "we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do to exhalt the nation." sound familiar? listen to this democrat 45 years later. >> ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. >> now, to the history-making nomination happening right here tonight. here's major garrett. >> it is my zing honor and great pleasure to nominate donald j. trump for the office of president of the united states of america. >> it's the moment donald trump craved and the republican establishment dreaded. the roll call cementing him as the gop nominee. it opened day two of the convention. >> 36 votes for the next president of the united states, donald j. trump! >> interviews with more than two dozen revealed those who were behind trump, those who are resigned to his nomination and the smallest category of all, those who still cannot make up their mind. >> major garrett, thank you. and while republicans a

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. >> calvin coolidge strongly advocated for cleveland because warren g. hardingd recently died, was an ohioan. >> reporter: john grabowski is author of "the encyclopedia of cleveland history." >> cleveland is also a great place at this time. it is fifth largest city in the nation, and it has a relatively new public auditorium. >> reporter: so the delegates attending the 19 24 r.n.c. were visiting a city on the rise? >> on the rise. if they went out to the east, they could have seen this new suburb shaker heights being built. they would have looked around and seen all the construction for the cleveland union terminal. >> near the inland waters, this driving terminal of trade and transportation... >> reporter: since that heydey it's been a long nine decades for cleveland, with some ups -- >> just after world war ii, it is the best location in the nation. >> reporter: -- and a lot of downs. ♪ the cuyahoga river goes smoking through my genes ♪ perhaps none more unfortunately symbolic than when the cuyahoga river caught on fire, and not for the first time. >> this cit