It is my great honor to present the next first lady of , anUnited States, my wife amazing mother, an incredible trump. Melania thank you very much. 19 you. Thank you very much. You have all been very kind to donald and me. And my whole family. It is a very nice welcome. We are excited to be with you at this historic convention. I am so proud of your choice for president of the United States, my husband, donald j. Trump. I can assure you he is moved by this great honor. The 2016 republican primaries were fears. They started with many candidates. 17, to be exact. They deserve respect and gratitude from all of us. [cheers and applause] however, when it comes to my husband, i will say that im definitely biased and for a good reason. I have been with donald for 18 years, and i have been aware of his love for this country since we first met. He never had a hidden agenda when it comes to his patriotism, because, like me, he loves this country very much. [applause] i was born in slovenia, a small, beautiful, and thencommunist country in central europe. My sister, ines, who is an incredible woman and a friend, and i were raised by my wonderful parents. My elegant and hardworking mother, amalija, introduced me to fashion and beauty. My father, viktor, instilled in me a passion for business and travel. Their integrity, compassion and intelligence reflects to this day on me and for my love of family and america. [cheers and applause] from a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond, and you do what you say and keep your promise, that you treat people with respect. They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily lives. That is a lesson that i continue to pass along to our son. And we need to pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow. Because [applause] because we want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them. [cheers and applause] i am fortunate for my heritage, but also for where it brought me today. I traveled the world while working hard in the incredible arena of fashion. After living and working in milan and paris, i arrived in new york city 20 years ago, and i saw both the joys and hardships of daily life. On july 28, 2006, i was very proud to become citizen of the United States. [cheers and applause] the greatest privilege on planet earth. [cheers and applause] i cannot or will not take the freedoms this country offers for granted, but these freedoms have come with a price so many times. The sacrifices made by our veterans are reminders to us of this. I would like to take a moment to recognize an amazing veteran, the great senator bob dole. [cheers and applause] and let us stand all of our veterans in the arena today and those across our great country. [cheers and applause] we are all truly blessed to be here. That will never change. I can tell you with certainty that my husband has been concerned about our country for as long as i have known him. With all of my heart, i know that he will make a great and lasting difference. Donald has a great and deep and unbonding determination and a nevergiveup attitude. I have seen him fight for years to get a project done or even started, and he does not give up. [cheers and applause] if you want someone to fight for you and your country, i can assure you hes the guy. [cheers and applause] he will never ever give up. And most importantly, he will never ever let you down. [applause] donald is and always has been an amazing leader. Now he will go to work for you. [cheers and applause] his achievements speak for themselves, and his performance throughout the primary campaign proved that he knows how to win. He also knows how to remain focused on improving our country, on keeping it safe and secure. [applause] he is tough when he has to be, but hes also kind and fair and caring. This kindness is not always noted, but it is there for all to see. That is one reason i fell in love with him to begin with. [applause] donald is intensely loyal to family, friends, employees, country. He has the utmost respect for his parents, mary and fred, to his sisters, maryanne and elizabeth, to his brother, robert, and to the memory of his late brother, fred. His children have been cared for and mentored to the extent that even his advisers admit theyre an amazing testament to who he is as a man and a father. [cheers and applause] there is a great deal of love in the trump family. That is our bond, and that is our strength. Yes, donald thinks big, which is especially important when considering the presidency of the United States. No room for small thinking, no room for small results. Donald gets things done. [cheers and applause] our country is underperforming and needs new leadership. Leadership is also what the world needs. Donald wants our country to move forward in the most positive of ways. Everyone wants change. Donald is the only one that can deliver it. We should not be satisfied with stagnation. Donald wants prosperity for all americans. [cheers and applause] we need new programs to help the poor and opportunities to challenge the young. There has to be a path for growth. Only then well see earnest results. My husbands experience exemplifies growth and successful passage of opportunity to the next generation. His success indicates inclusion rather than division. My husband offers a new direction, welcoming change, prosperity, and greater Cooperation Among peoples and nations. Donald intends to represent all the people, not just some of the people. [cheers and applause] that includes christians and jews and muslims. It includes hispanics and African Americans and asians and the poor and the middle class. [cheers and applause] throughout his career, donald has successfully worked with people of many faiths and with many nations. Like no one else, i have seen the talent, the energy, the tenacity, the resourceful mind, and the simple goodness of the heart that god gave to donald trump. Now is the time to use those gifts as never before for purposes far greater than ever. And he will do this better than anyone else can, and it wont even be close. [cheers and applause] everything depends on it for our cause and for our country. People are counting on him. All the millions of you who have touched us so much with your kindness and your confidence, you have turned this unlikely campaign into a movement that is still gaining in strength and number. [cheers and applause] the primary season and its toughness is behind us. Lets all come together in a National Campaign like no other. [cheers and applause] the race will be hardfought all the way to november. There will be good times and hard times and unexpected turns. It would not be a trump contest without excitement and drama. [cheers and applause] but trust throughout it all my husband will remain focused on only one thing, this beautiful country that he loves so much. [applause] if im honored to serve as first lady, i will use that wonderful privilege to try to help people in our country who need it the most. One of the many causes dear to my heart is helping children and women. You judge society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security with the best possible education. [cheers and applause] as the citizens of this great nation, it is kindness, love and compassion for each other that will bring us together and keep us together. These are the values donald and i will bring to the white house. [cheers and applause] my husband is ready to lead this great nation. Hes ready to fight every day to give our children the Better Future they deserve. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, donald j. Trump is ready to serve and lead this country as the next president of the United States. [cheers and applause] thank you. God bless you, and god bless america. [we are the champions by queen plays] announcer mary fisher had recently been diagnosed with hiv when she took the stage at the Rnc Convention in 1992. The mother has written six books, founded a nonprofit for aids research and education, and traveled the world as an ambassador. Her speech is considered one of the best speeches of the 20th century. Her father, max fisher, has been a republican leader and advisor for three decades. One year ago, mary fisher, who had herself served for gerald ford, discovered she was hivpositive. After agonizing family deliberations, she told the public her story, but in going public, mary says her most important audience is her two children, max and zachary. Mary when i tuck each of you into bed, i tell you, since you came from my body, zach, and from my body, zachary, i knew that one day, i would have to give you up. I rehearse for the day when i must give you over. That is why when i reach for the days last kiss and hug, you will hear me say these words. Sleep with the angels. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, mary fisher. [cheers and applause] mary less than three months ago, at platform hearings in salt lake city, i asked the Republican Party to lift the shroud of silence which has been draped over the issue of hiv and aids. I have come tonight to bring our silence to an end. I bear a message of challenge, not selfcongratulation. I want your attention, not your applause. I would never have asked to be hiv positive, but i believe that in all things, there is a purpose, and i stand before you and before the nation gladly. The reality of aids is brutally clear. 200,000 americans are dead or dying. A million more are infected. Worldwide, 40 million, 60 million, or 100 million infections will be counted in the coming few years. But despite science and research, white house meetings, and congressional hearings, despite good intentions and bold initiatives, campaign slogans, and hopeful promises, it is, despite it all, the epidemic which is winning tonight. In the context of an election year, i ask you, here in this great hall, or listening in the quiet of your home, to recognize that aids virus is not a political creature. It does not care whether you are democrat or a republican. It does not ask whether you are black or white, male or female, gay or straight, young or old. Tonight, i represent an aids community whose members have been reluctantly drafted from every segment of american society. Though i am white and a mother, i am one with a black infant struggling with tubes in a philadelphia hospital. Though i am female and contracted this disease in marriage and enjoy the warm support of my family, i am one with the lonely, gay man sheltering a flickering candle from the cold wind of his familys rejection. [applause] this is not a distant threat. It is a present danger. The rate of infection is increasing fastest among women and children. Largely unknown a decade ago, aids is the third leading killer of young adult americans today. But it wont be third for long, because unlike other diseases, this one travels. Adolescents dont give each other cancer or Heart Disease because they believe they are in love, but hiv is different, and we have helped it along. We have killed each other with our ignorance, our prejudice, and our silence. We may take refuge in our stereotypes, but we cannot hide there long, because hiv asks only one thing of those it attacks. Are you human . And this is the right question. Are you human . Because people with hiv have not entered some alien state of being. They are human. They have not earned cruelty, and they do not deserve meanness. They dont benefit from being isolated or treated as outcasts. Each of them is exactly what god made, a person, not evil, deserving of our judgment, not victims, longing for our pity. People, ready for support and worthy of compassion. [applause] my call to you, my party, is to take a public stand, no less compassionate than that of the president and mrs. Bush. They have embraced me and my family in memorable ways. In the place of judgment, they have shown affection. In difficult moments, they have raised our spirits. In the darkest hours, i have seen them reaching not only to me, but also to my parents, armed with that stunning grief and special grace that comes only to parents who have themselves leaned too long over the bedside of a dying child. With the president s leadership, much good has been done. Much of the good has gone unheralded, and as the president has insisted, much remains to be done. But we do the president s cause no good if we praise the American Family but ignore a virus that destroys it. [applause] we must be consistent if we are to be believed. We cannot love justice and ignore prejudice, love our children and fear to teach them. Whatever our role as parent or policymaker, we must act as eloquently as we speak, else we have no integrity. My call to the nation is a plea for awareness. If you believe you are safe, you are in danger, because i was not hemophiliac, i was not at risk. Because i was not gay, i was not at risk. Because i did not inject drugs, i was not at risk. My father has devoted much of his lifetime guarding against another holocaust. He is part of the generation who heard pastor nemoellor come out of the nazi death camps to say, they came after the jews, and i was not a jew, so, i did not protest. They came after the trade unionists, and i was not a trade unionist, so, i did not protest. Then, they came after the roman catholics, and i was not a roman catholic, so, i did not protest. Then they came after me, and there was no one left to protest. [applause] the lesson history teaches is this if you believe you are safe, you are at risk. If you do not see this killer stalking your children, look again. There is no family or community, no race or religion, no place left in america that is safe. Until we genuinely embrace this message, we are a nation at risk. Tonight, hiv marches resolutely toward aids in more than a million american homes, littering its pathway with the bodies of the young young men, young women, young parents, and young children. One of the families is mine. If it is true that hiv inevitably turns to aids, then my children will inevitably turn to orphans. My family has been a rock of support. My 84yearold father, who has pursued the healing of the nations, will not accept the premise that he cannot heal his daughter. My mother refuses to be broken. She still calls at midnight to tell wonderful jokes that make me laugh. Sisters and friends, and my brother phillip, whose birthday is today, all have helped carry me over the hardest places. I am blessed, richly and deeply blessed, to have such a family. But not all of you [applause] but not all of you have been so blessed. You are hiv positive, but dare not say it. You have lost loved ones, but you dare not whisper the word aids. You weep silently. You grieve alone. I have a message for you. It is not you who should feel shame. It is we we who tolerate ignorance and practice prejudice, we who have taught you to fear. We must lift our shroud of silence, making it safe for you to reach out for compassion. It is our task to seek safety for our children, not in quiet denial, but in effective action. Someday our children will be grown. My son max, now four, will take the measure of his mother. My son zachary, now two, will sort through his memories. I may not be here to hear their judgments, but i know already what i hope they are. I want my children to know that their mother was not a victim. She was a messenger. I do not want them to think, as i once did, that courage is the absence of fear. I want them to know that courage is the strength to act wisely when most we are afraid. I want them to have the courage to step forward when called by their nation or their party and give leadership, no matter what the personal cost. I ask no more of you than i ask of myself or of my children. To the millions of you who are grieving, who are frightened, who have suffered the ravages of aids firsthand have courage, and you will find support. To the millions who are strong, i issue the plea set aside prejudice and politics to make room for compassion and sound policy. [applause] to my children, i make this pledge i will not give in, zachary, because i draw my courage from you. Your silly giggle gives me hope; your gentle prayers give me strength; and you, my child, give me the reason to say to america, you are at risk. And i will not rest, max, until i have done all i can to make your world safe. I will seek a place where intimacy is not the prelude to suffering. I will not hurry to leave you, my children, but when i go, i pray that you will not suffer shame on my account. To all within the sound of my voice, i appeal learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word aids when i am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all. God bless the children, and god bless us all. Good night. [applause] what the reverend Jesse Jackson was the president ial candidate when he addressed the Democratic National convention. Themately, he lost president ial nomination to Vice President walter mondale, declaring he wanted to create a Rainbow Coalition various minority groups, he later founded the rainbow push coalition. Hes a civil rights leader who worked with dr. Martin luther king and served as a u. S. Senator for washington, d. C. He was honored by the. Ongressional black caucus my fellow democrats, my fellow americans, it is my honor to introduce an american in the most profound sense. The next future, president of the United States the reverend jesse lewis jackson. [applause] rev. Jacskon thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Tonight, we come together bound by our faith in a mighty god, with genuine respect and love for our country, and inheriting the legacy of a great party, the Democratic Party, which is the best hope for redirecting our nation on a more humane, just, and peaceful course. This is not a perfect party. We are not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission. Our mission to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race. [applause] we are gathered here this week to nominate a candidate and adopt a platform which will expand, unify, direct, and inspire our party and the nation to fulfill this mission. My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected, and the despised. They are restless and seek relief. They have voted in record numbers. They have invested the faith, hope, and trust that they have in us. The Democratic Party must send them a signal that we care. I pledge my best not to let them down. There is the call of conscience, redemption, expansion, healing, and unity. Leadership must heed the call of conscience, redemption, expansion, healing, and unity, for they are the key to achieving our mission. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. No generation can choose the age or circumstance in which it is born, but through leadership it can choose to make the age in which it is born an age of enlightenment, an age of jobs, and peace, and justice. Only leadership that intangible combination of gifts, the discipline, information, circumstance, courage, timing, will and divine inspiration can lead us out of the crisis in which we find ourselves. Leadership can mitigate the misery of our nation. Leadership can part the waters and lead our nation in the direction of the promised land. Leadership can lift the boats stuck at the bottom. I have had the rare opportunity to watch seven men, and then two, pour out their souls, offer their service, and heal and heed the call of duty to direct the course of our nation. There is a proper season for everything. There is a time to sow and a time to reap. Theres a time to compete and a time to cooperate. I ask for your vote on the first ballot as a vote for a new direction for this party and this nation a vote of conviction, a vote of conscience. But i will be proud to support the nominee of this convention for the presidency of the United States of america. [applause] thank you. I have watched the leadership of our Party Develop and grow. My respect for both mr. Mondale and mr. Hart is great. I have watched them struggle with the crosswinds and crossfires of being Public Servants, and i believe they will both continue to try to serve us faithfully. I am elated by the knowledge that for the first time in our history a woman, geraldine ferraro, will be recommended to share our ticket. Throughout this campaign, ive tried to offer leadership to the Democratic Party and the nation. If, in my high moments, i have done some good, offered some service, shed some light, healed some wounds, rekindled some hope, or stirred someone from apathy and indifference, or in any way along the way helped somebody, then this campaign has not been in vain. [applause] for friends who loved and cared for me, and for a god who spared me, and for a family who understood, i am eternally grateful. If, in my low moments, in word, deed or attitude, through some error of temper, taste, or tone, i have caused anyone discomfort, created pain, or revived someones fears, that was not my truest self. If there were occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. My head so limited in its finitude, my heart, which is boundless in its love for the human family. I am not a perfect servant. I am a Public Servant doing my best against the odds. As i develop and serve, be patient, god is not finished with me yet. This campaign has taught me much, that leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, Strong Enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving. For leaders, the pain is often intense. But you must smile through your tears and keep moving with the faith that there is a brighter side somewhere. I went to see Hubert Humphrey three days before he died. He had just called Richard Nixon from his dying bed, and many people wondered why. And i asked him. He said, jesse, from this vantage point, the sun is setting in my life, all of the speeches, the Political Conventions, the crowds, and the great fights are behind me now. At a time like this you are forced to deal with your irreducible essence, forced to grapple with that which is really important to you. And what ive concluded about life, Hubert Humphrey said, when all is said and done, we must forgive each other, and redeem each other, and move on our party is emerging from one of its most hard fought battles for the Democratic Partys president ial nomination in our history. But our healthy competition should make us better, not bitter. [applause] we must use the insight, wisdom, and experience of the late Hubert Humphrey as a balm for the wounds in our party, this nation, and the world. We must forgive each other, redeem each other, regroup, and move one. Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow red, yellow, brown, black and white and were all precious in gods sight. America is not like a blanket one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread. The white, the hispanic, the black, the arab, the jew, the woman, the native american, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay, and the disabled make up the american quilt. Even in our fractured state, all of us count and fit somewhere. We have proven that we can survive without each other. But we have not proven that we can win and make progress without each other. We must come together. [applause] from Fannie Lou Hamer in Atlantic City in 1964 to the Rainbow Coalition in San Francisco today; from the atlantic to the pacific, we have experienced pain but progress, as we ended american apartheid laws. We got public accommodations. We secured Voting Rights. We obtained open housing, as young people got the right to vote. We lost malcolm, martin, medgar, bobby, john, and viola. The team that got us here must be expanded, not abandoned. [applause] 20 years ago, tears welled up in our eyes as the bodies of schwerner, goodman, and chaney were dredged from the depths of a river in mississippi. 20 years later, our communities, black and jewish, are in anguish, anger, and pain. Feelings have been hurt on both sides. There is a crisis in communications. Confusion is in the air. But we cannot afford to lose our way. We may agree to agree; or agree to disagree on issues; we must bring back civility to these tensions. We are copartners in a long and rich religious history the judeochristian traditions. Many blacks and jews have a shared passion for social justice at home and peace abroad. We must seek a revival of the spirit, inspired by a new vision and new possibilities. We must return to higher ground. We are bound by moses and jesus, but also connected with islam and mohammed. These three great religions, judaism, christianity, and islam, were all born in the revered and holy city of jerusalem. We are bound by dr. Martin luther king jr. And rabbi abraham heschel, crying out from their graves for us to reach Common Ground. We are bound by shared blood and shared sacrifices. We are much too intelligent, much too bound by our judeochristian heritage, much too victimized by racism, sexism, militarism, and antisemitism, much too threatened as historical scapegoats to go on divided one from another. We must turn from finger pointing to clasped hands. We must share our burdens and our joys with each other once again. We must turn to each other and not on each other and choose higher ground. [applause] 20 years later, we cannot be satisfied by just restoring the old coalition. Old wine skins must make room for new wine. We must heal and expand. The Rainbow Coalition is making room for arab americans. They, too, know the pain and hurt of racial and religious rejection. They must not continue to be made pariahs. The Rainbow Coalition is making room for hispanic americans who this very night are living under the threat of the simpsonmazzoli bill, and farm workers from ohio who are fighting the Campbell Soup company with a boycott to achieve legitimate workers rights. [applause] the rainbow is making room for the native american, the most exploited people of all, a people with the greatest moral claim amongst us. We support them as they seek the restoration of their ancient land and claim amongst us. We support them as they seek the restoration of land and water rights, as they seek to preserve their ancestral homeland and the beauty of a land that was once all theirs. They can never receive a fair share for all they have given us. They must finally have a fair chance to develop their great resources and to preserve their people and their culture. The Rainbow Coalition includes asian americans, now being killed in our streets scapegoats for the failures of corporate, industrial, and economic policies. The rainbow is making room for the Young Americans. 20 years ago, our young people were dying in a war for which they could not even vote. 20 years later, Young America has the power to stop a war in Central America and the responsibility to vote in great numbers. Young america must be politically active in 1984. The choice is war or peace. We must make room for Young America. The rainbow includes disabled veterans. The color scheme fits in the rainbow. The disabled have their handicap revealed and their genius concealed; while the ablebodied have their genius revealed and their disability concealed. But ultimately, we must judge people by their values and their contribution. Dont leave anybody out. I would rather have roosevelt in a wheelchair than reagan on a horse. [applause] the rainbow is making room for small farmers. They have suffered tremendously under the reagan regime. They will either receive 90 percent parity or 100 percent charity. We must address their concerns and make room for them. The rainbow includes lesbians and gays. No american citizen ought be denied equal protection under the law. We must be unusually committed and caring as we expand our family to include new members. All of us must be tolerant and understanding as the fears and anxieties of the rejected and the Party Leadership express themselves in many different ways. Too often what we call hate as if it were some deeplyrooted philosophy or strategy is simply ignorance, anxiety, paranoia, fear, and insecurity. To be strong leaders, we must be longsuffering as we seek to right the wrongs of our party and our nation. We must expand our party, heal our party, and unify our party. That is our mission in 1984. [applause] we are often reminded that we live in a great nation, and we do. But it can be greater still. The rainbow is mandating a new definition of greatness. We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these. President reagan says the nation is in recovery. Those 90,000 corporations that made a profit last year but paid no federal taxes are recovering. The 37,000 military contractors who have benefited from reagans more than doubling of the military budget in peacetime, surely they are recovering. The big corporations and rich individuals who received the bulk of a threeyear, multibillion tax cut from mr. Reagan are recovering. But no such recovery is under way for the least of these. Rising tides dont lift all boats, particularly those stuck at the bottom. For the boats stuck at the bottom theres a misery index. This administration has made life more miserable for the poor. Its attitude has been contemptuous. Its policies and programs have been cruel and unfair to working people. They must be held accountable in november for increasing infant mortality among the poor. In detroit, one of the great cities of the western world, babies are dying at the same rate as honduras, the most underdeveloped nation in our hemisphere. This Administration Must be held accountable for policies that have contributed to the growing poverty in america. There are now 34 Million People in poverty, 15 percent of our nation. 23 million are white, 11 million black, hispanic, asian, and others mostly women and children. By the end of this year, there will be 41 Million People in poverty. We cannot stand idly by. We must fight for a change now. [applause] under this regime, we look at Social Security. The 81 budget cuts included nine permanent Social Security benefit cuts totaling 20 billion over five years. Small businesses have suffered under reagan tax cuts. Only 18 of total business tax cuts went to them. 82 went to big business. Health care under mr. Reagan has already been sharply cut. Education under mr. Reagan has been cut 25 . Under mr. Reagan, there are now 9. 7 million female head families. They represent 16 of all families. Half of all of them are poor. 70 of all poor children live in a house headed by a woman, where there is no man. Under mr. Reagan, the administration has cleaned up only 6 of 546 priority toxic waste dumps. Farmers real net income was only about half its level in 1979. Many say that the race in november will be decided in the south. President reagan is depending on the conservative south to return him to office. But the south, i tell you, is unnaturally conservative. The south is the poorest region in our nation and, therefore, the least to conserve. In his appeal to the south, mr. Reagan is trying to substitute flags and prayer cloths for food, and clothing, and education, health care, and housing. [applause] mr. Reagan will ask us to pray, and i believe in prayer. I have come to this way by the power of prayer. But then, we must watch false prophecy. He cuts Energy Assistance to the poor, cuts breakfast programs from children, cuts lunch programs from children, cuts job training from children, and then says to an empty table, let us pray. [laughter] [applause] apparently, he is not familiar with the structure of a prayer. You thank the lord for the food that you are about to receive, not the food that just left. [laughter] [cheers and applause] i think that we should pray, but dont pray for the food that left. Pray for the man that took the food to leave. We need a change. [cheers and applause] we need a change in november. [applause] under mr. Reagan, the misery index has risen for the poor. The danger index has risen for everybody. Under this administration, weve lost the lives of our boys in Central America and honduras, in grenada, in lebanon, in Nuclear Standoff in europe. Under this administration, onethird of our children believe they will die in a nuclear war. The danger index is increasing in this world. All the talk about the defense against russia, the russian submarines are closer, and their missiles are more accurate. We live in a world tonight more miserable and a world more dangerous. While reaganomics and reaganism is talked about often, so often we miss the real meaning. Reaganism is a spirit, and reaganomics represents the real economic facts of life. In 1980, mr. George bush, a man with reasonable access to mr. Reagan, did an analysis of mr. Reagans economic plan. Mr. George bush concluded that reagans plan was voodoo economics. He was right. [applause] [crowd booing] thirdparty candidate John Anderson said a combination of military spending, tax cuts, and a balanced budget by 84 would be accomplished with blue smoke and mirrors. They were both right. Mr. Reagan talks about a dynamic recovery. Theres some measure of recovery. Three and a half years later, unemployment has inched just below where it was when he took office in 1981. There are still 8. 1 Million People officially unemployed, 11 million working only parttime. Inflation has come down, but lets analyze for a moment who has paid the price for this superficial economic recovery. Mr. Reagan curbed inflation by cutting consumer demand. He cut consumer demand with conscious and callous fiscal and monetary policies. He used the federal budget to deliberately induce unemployment and curb social spending. He then weighed and supported tight monetary policies of the Federal Reserve board to deliberately drive up Interest Rates, again to curb consumer demand created through borrowing. Unemployment reached 10. 7 . We experienced skyrocketing Interest Rates. Our dollar inflated abroad. There were record bank failures, record farm foreclosures, record business bankruptcies, record budget deficits, record trade deficits. Mr. Reagan brought inflation down by destabilizing our economy and disrupting family life. He promised he promised in 1980 a balanced budget. But instead, we now have a record 200 billion budget deficit. Under mr. Reagan, the cumulative budget deficit for his four years is more than the sum total of deficits from George Washington to jimmy carter combined. I tell you, we need a change. [cheers and applause] how is he paying for these shortterm jobs . Reagans economic recovery is being financed by deficit spending 200 billion dollars a year. Military spending, a major cause of this deficit, is projected over the next five years to be nearly 2 trillion, and will cost about for every taxpaying 40,000 family. Borrows government annually to finance the deficit, 200 billion this encourages the private sector to make its money off of Interest Rates as opposed to development and economic growth. Even money abroad, we dont have enough money domestically to finance the debt, so we are now borrowing money abroad, from foreign banks, governments and financial institutions. 40 billion in 1983. Billion in 1984. 40 of our total, over 100 billion. 50 of our total in 1985. By 1989, it is projected that 50 50 of all individual income taxes will be going just to pay for interest on that debt. The United States used to be the largest exporter of capital, but under mr. Reagan we will quite likely become the largest debtor nation. About two weeks ago, on july the 4th, we celebrated our declaration of independence, yet every day, supplyside economics is making our nation more economically dependent and less economically free. 5 to 6 of our Gross National product is now being eaten up with president reagans budget deficits. To depend on Foreign Military powers to protect our National Security would be foolish, making us dependent and less secure. Yet, reaganomics has us increasingly dependent on foreign economic sources. This consumerled but deficitfinanced recovery is unbalanced and artificial. We have a challenge as democrats to point a way out. Democracy guarantees opportunity, not success. Democracy guarantees the right to participate, not a license for either a majority or a minority to dominate. The victory for the Rainbow Coalition in the platform debates today was not whether we won or lost, but that we raised the right issues. [applause] we could afford to lose the vote issues are nonnegotiable. We could not afford to avoid raising the right questions. Our selfrespect and our moral integrity were at stake. Our heads are perhaps bloody, but not bowed. Our back is straight. We can go home and face our people. Our vision is clear. [applause] when we think, on this journey from slaveship to championship, that we have gone from the planks of the boardwalk in Atlantic City in 1964 to fighting to help write the planks in the platform in San Francisco in 1984, there is a deep and abiding sense of joy in our souls in spite of the tears in our eyes. Though there are missing planks, there is a Solid Foundation upon which to build. Our party can win, but we must provide hope which will inspire people to struggle and achieve, provide a plan that shows a way out of our dilemma and then lead the way. In 1984, my heart is made to feel glad because i know there is a way out. Justice. The requirement for rebuilding america is justice. The linchpin of progressive politics in our nation will not come from the north, they, in fact, will come from the south. That is why i argue over and over again. We look from virginia around to texas, theres only one black congressperson out of 115. Nineteen years later, were locked out of the congress, the senate and the governors mansion. What does this large black vote mean . Why do i fight to win second primaries and fight gerrymandering and annexation and at large . Why do we fight over that . Because i tell you, you cannot hold someone in the ditch unless you linger there with them. Unless you linger there. If you want a change in this nation, you enforce that Voting Rights act. Well get 12 to 20 black, hispanic, female and progressive congresspersons from the south. We can save the cotton, but weve got to fight the boll weevils. Weve got to make a judgment. Weve got to make a judgment. [cheers and applause] its not enough to hope the era will pass. How can we pass era . If blacks vote in great numbers, progressive whites win. Its the only way progressive whites win. [laughter] if blacks vote in great numbers, hispanics win. When blacks, hispanics, and progressive whites vote, women win. When women win, children win. When women and children win, workers win. We must all come up together. We must come up together. [cheers and applause] thank you. [applause] i tell you, for all of our joy and excitement, we must not save the world and lose our souls. We should never shortcircuit enforcing the Voting Rights act at every level. When one of us rise, all of us will rise. Justice is the way out. Peace is the way out. We should not act as if Nuclear Weaponry is negotiable and debatable. In this world in which we live, we dropped the bomb on japan and felt guilty, but in 1984 other folks also got bombs. This time, if we drop the bomb, six minutes later we, too, will be destroyed. Its not about dropping the bomb on somebody. It is about dropping the bomb on everybody. We must choose to develop minds over guided missiles, and think it out and not fight it out. Its time for a change. Our Foreign Policy must be characterized by mutual respect, not by gunboat diplomacy, big stick diplomacy, and threats. Our nation at its best feeds the hungry. Our nation at its worst, at its worst, will mine the harbors of nicaragua, at its worst will try to overthrow their government, at its worst will cut aid to American Education and increase the aid to el salvador, at its worst, our nation will have partnerships with south africa. Thats a moral disgrace. Its a moral disgrace. Its a moral disgrace [applause] we look at africa. We cannot just focus on apartheid in southern africa. We must fight for trade with africa, and not just aid to africa. We cannot stand idly by and say we will not relate to nicaragua unless they have elections there, and then embrace military regimes in africa overthrowing democratic governments in nigeria and liberia and ghana. We must fight for democracy all around the world and play the game by one set of rules. Peace in this world. Our present formula for peace in the middle east is inadequate. It will not work. There are 22 nations in the middle east. Our nation must be able to talk and act and influence all of them. We must build upon camp david, and measure human rights by one yard stick. In that region we have too many interests and too few friends. There is a way out jobs. Put america back to work. When i was a child growing up in greenville, south carolina, the reverend sample used to preach every so often a sermon relating to jesus. And he said, if i be lifted up, ill draw all men unto me. I didnt quite understand what he meant as a child growing up, but i understand a little better now. If you raise up truth, its magnetic. It has a way of drawing people. With all this confusion in this convention, the bright lights and parties and big fun, we must raise up the simple proposition if we lift up a program to feed the hungry, theyll come running. If we lift up a program to study war no more, our youth will come running. If we lift up a program to put america back to work, and an alternative to welfare and despair, they will come working. If we cut that military budget without cutting our defense, and use that money to rebuild bridges and put Steel Workers back to work, and use that money and provide jobs for our cities, and use that money to build schools and pay teachers and educate our children and build hospitals and train doctors and train nurses, the whole nation will come running to us. [cheers and applause] as i leave you now, we vote in this convention and get ready to go back across this nation in a couple of days. In this campaign, ive tried to be faithful to my promise. I lived in old barrios, ghettos, and reservations and housing projects. I have a message for our youth. I challenge them to put hope in their brains and not dope in their veins. [applause] i told them that like jesus, i, too, was born in the slum. But just because youre born in the slum does not mean the slum is born in you, and you can rise above it if your mind is made up. [cheers and applause] i told them in every slum there are two sides. When i see a broken window thats the slummy side. Train some youth to become a glazier thats the sunny side. When i see a missing brick thats the slummy side. Let that child in the union and become a brick mason and build thats the sunny side. [applause] when i see a missing door thats the slummy side. Train some youth to become a carpenter thats the sunny side. And when i see the vulgar words and hieroglyphics of destitution on the walls thats the slummy side. Train some youth to become a painter, an artist thats the sunny side. We leave this place looking for the sunny side because theres a brighter side somewhere. Im more convinced than ever that we can win. We will vault up the rough side of the mountain. We can win. I just want Young America to do me one favor, just one favor. Exercise the right to dream. [applause] reality, that which is. But then dream of a reality that ought to be that must be. Live beyond the pain of reality with the dream of a bright tomorrow. Use hold and imagination as weapons of survival and progress. Use love to motivate you and obligate you to serve the human family. Young america, dream. Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and dont burn the people. Dream dream of a new value system. Teachers who teach for life and not just for a living, teach because they cant help it. Dream of lawyers more concerned about justice than a judgeship. Dream of doctors more concerned about Public Health than personal wealth. [applause] dream of preachers and priests who will prophesy and not just profiteer. Preach and dream our time has come. Our time has come. Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. In the end, faith will not disappoint. Our time has come. Our faith, hope, and dreams will prevail. Our time has come. Weeping has endured for nights, but now joy cometh in the morning. Our time has come. No grave can hold our body down. Our time has come. No lie can live forever. Our time has come. We must leave racial Battle Ground and come to economic Common Ground and moral higher ground. America, our time has come. We come from disgrace to amazing grace. We come from disgrace to amazing grace. Our time has come. Give me your tired, give me your poor, your huddled masses who yearn to breathe free and come november, there will be a change come se our time has thank you and god bless you. [cheers and applause] [chanting] wayne jess win, jesse, win win, jesse, win win, jesse, win win, jesse, win [applause] [cheers and applause] lets join hands. Lets join hands. Just ordinary people god uses ordinary people he uses people just like you and andho are willing to do space commands. God uses people who will give him all youresnt matter how small all may seem to you because little becomes much as when you place it in the masters hand. Just ordinary people i am so glad god uses ordinary people he uses people just like you and do what hewilling to commands god uses people who will give him all it doesnt matter how small your all may seem to you whense little becomes much you place it in the masters hand. Just like the little lad who gave jesus all he had and the multitude were fed with the fish and a loaf of bread it cant be much, but it yielded handthe masters loving and you will understand how your life will never be the same ust ordinary people arent you glad god uses ordinary people . He uses people just like you and as heo are willing to do commands god uses people who will give him all youresnt matter how small all may seem to you muchse little becomes when you place it in the masters hand. All you got to do is give god your all little becomes much when you ce it in the masters hand [cheers and applause] announcer Jesse Jackson won five democratic primaries and caucuses in 1984, but ultimately lost to Vice President walter mondale. Cspan has covered every minute of every Political Convention since 1984. Hour Video Library includes those and many hours of archival conventions. As the Republican National convention is underway, make historicalch more Convention Speeches at cspan. Org rnc. Cspans washington journal, every day. Coming up this morning, we are taking your calls live on the air, discussing the second night of the Republican National convention, with a Washington Examiner to go reporter, and an author, on Vice President mike pence and rnc. Rob smith will be on to talk about campaign 2020 and the role of military voters and young people. 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Next, michigan governor Gretchen Witmer and new jersey senator cory booker holding a video press briefing on the second day of the Republican National convention. They discuss Coronavirus Response and the first night of the rnc. This is chris from the dnc war room. Today, we will be talking about the trump chaos presidency in light of and with a focus on crisis formy in american families. With us today, we had governor gretchen whitmer, senator cory booker, and biden for president Deputy Communications director bill russo. A reminder to please raise your hand if you had a question, we will be doing that after