and has to be affirmed. i must say to you that the state of the union is not good these people somehow politics into power and make the government work. we re privileged to witness a significant achievement in the cause of peace. what was once a distant foreign policy to issue has become a domestic issue there is no delays in the spirit of this country. we can turn of this country around and we can turn our economy around. and the time to do it is now . just a few moments now, president nixon will be appearing before the people perhaps as last time as president of the united states. hail to the chief good evening, i shall resign the presidency affected tomorrow. turning over the direction of the government to vice president ford i know that the leadership of america will be in good hands. in those first few days and weeks when gerald ford ascended the presidency you can say if you were casting someone to play the road to heal a nation, gerald ford would win
go home! it s like a bomb. we re sitting on a bomb. you can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what you ll get. this is a revolution. should people be frightened? i think people should wake up. it s 1991. wake up. we have talked at each other and about each other for a long time. it s high time we all began talking with each other. no justice, no peace! can we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york city s 106th mayor and the city s first african-american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david dinkins being inaugurated on new year s day in 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. people are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was sworn in today a
despicable acts of terror. the world before 9/11 looks different than the world after 9/11. every nation has a choice to make. in this conflict, there is no neutral ground. the facts show that saddam hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce weapons of mass destruction. in this battle against terrorism, there is no silver bullet. today, america is again forging its future by choosing a man to lead it into the 21st century. this is cnn s coverage of election 2000. this is the last official stop of campaign 2000. [ cheers and applause ] if people do what i think they re gonna do, you re looking at the next president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] the schedule over the last 48 hours reflected a major worry florida, home of governor jeb bush. and when he looked me in the eye and said, florida s gonna be bush/cheney country, i believe him. in texas, george w. bush was known as a bipartisan governor. at the time, the s
peace. should people be frightened? people should wake up. it s 1991. we have talked at each other and about each other a long time. it is high time we started talking with each other. no justice, no peace. can t we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now, david dinkins is scheduled to take a public oath of office and become new york city s next mayor and the first african american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david being inaugurated on new year s day 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade. and the culmination of some of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s . people are seeing tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was worn? as the nation s first elected black governor. i was born in the 30s so you know i didn t think nothing like that was going to happen. after we saw hundreds of black elected officials, the reality set in that we made a step, but we had not gotten all the way to where we wante
So in some ways, the more obvious bi-racial identity that i have to affirm, african-americans also have to affirm, and white americans have to affirm, because they partake in a hybrid culture. you know, the truth of the matter is, is that american culture at this point, what is truly american, is black culture to a large degree. flip on the television set. and it s had a profound influence on this entire nation, and it has to be affirmed. in money matters this morning, wall street, where leaping stocks have investors jumping. we re going to turn the bull loose. ivan boesky: one of the great things about this nation is that we can seek profit. shriver: is money the number-one goal? yes.