Hello ladies and gentlemen of the convention. Ladies and gentlemen of the convention. Ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my name is Gerald Geraldine ferraro. I stand before you to proclaim tonight america is the land where dreams can come true for all of us. As i stand before the American People and think of the honor this great con evening has vent 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. My heart is filled with pride. My fellow citizens i proudly acce accept your nomination for Vice President of the united states. And theyre wonderful. And and i am proud to run with a man who will be one of the great president s of this century, Walter Mondale. Tonight, the daughter of a woman whose highest goal
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 Peoples 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 dont 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, cspan. Org history. American history tv, exploring our nations past every weekend on cspan three. New york congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman nominated by a major
Live and worldwide this is r. T. International from moscow glad to have you with us one colum break with the big stories were across at this hour wisconsins governor has said that hes sending 500 National Guard to help support local police tonight after hundreds of protesters there defied a curfew last night which was designed to bring an end to recent unrest violence erupted after police shot a black man multiple times in the back on sunday on the 3rd night of protests 2 people were shot dead a 3rd was injured and within the past few hours a 17 year olds been charged with 1st degree intentional homicide. Thats. Also her calling. In her that. Things. Are expensive and those things like that you can hear people talking about. Let me see if you think. Of it here. Theyre making some sort of announcement at exactly air. National guard plants and put on their gas masks. On the playing and. I think the crowd is magically moved back to the car. You can see the pepper balls 1st thing and then
Soldiers, spout spent time with self emancipated men, women and children and drafted the emancipation proclamation. Joan cummins is a public historian, artist and educator. Their public facing programming, particularly for students and teachers. She also works closely with one of their programs called students opposing slavery for young abolitionist working to combat human trafficking. She is the cohost of a podcast, called q and abe. Welcome to history happy hour. Thanks so much for having me. Im excited to be here and to share you all about lincolns experience during the summer of his presidency. He lived at the cottage for three summers while he was president. 1862, 1863 and 1864. The family was planning to come out again for the summer of 1865 when the president was killed. There were three main reasons the family moved to the cottage as opposed to staying in the white house through the summer. As many of you may know, summer in d. C. Can be very sticky and humid and unpleasant. Th
Our first guest tonight is from the lincolns cottage, where Abraham Lincoln resided for over a quarter of his presidency. Situated on a hilltop in northwest washington, d. C. , president lincoln made some of his most critical decisions at lincolns cottage. Lincoln visited with winded Wounded Soldiers, spent time with self emancipated men, women and children and drafted the emancipation proclamation. Joan cummins is a public historian, artist and educator. She supports their public facing programming, particularly for students and teachers. She also works closely with one of their programs called students opposing slavery for young abolitionist working to combat human trafficking. She is the cohost of a podcast, called q and abe. Welcome to history happy hour. Joan thanks so much for having me. Im excited to be here and to share you all about lincolns experience during the summer of his presidency. He lived at the cottage for three summers while he was president. The summer of 1862, 186