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i think our border immigration to be solved instead it's a sign of the continuing appeal of the american dream yes from philadelphia pbs live coverage of the republican national convention millions of the world's oil supply

is due to clean energy sources this program was also made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to pbs stations from viewers like you and welcome to the first union center in philadelphia and tv's a special complete coverage of the republican national convention our entire newshour team is here senior correspondents when i fall race war as ann margaret warner analysts mark shields an alter ego perspective commentators michael beschloss doris kearns goodwin haynes johnson and kate james among others we will of course be going to the podium

throughout the evening for speeches another major happenings when i fall from her position just off the convention floor gives us a rundown of what's planned for tonight when they debuted in the night of the night for republicans to hear from delegates leaders will showcase bush campaign themes we're going to hear about accountability and standards and higher education and glorification of the year about a kinder and gentler view that the republican party brings on issues including immigration ever hear a lot of music at the end of the evening a big speech from laura bush the spouse the wife of the gandhi to be george w bush and also from retired chairman of the joint chiefs of staff colin powell will be the final speaker of the evening a few details about this crowd here tonight four thousand or more delegates nearly one third of them are elected officials more than half of them are first time delegates never treated conventionally for the youngest delegate four of them are nineteen years old before the youngest delegates at the oldest delegate is senator strom thurmond at the grand old age of ninety seven years much

be a roll call of the states is already begun it's a new wrinkle for this convention instead of doing it all at once and they have in the past on one night it will be done especially over four nights with over the top for george w bush's nomination coming on thursday night the roll call now as i understand it has now gone to idaho and the berries in here in the future the idea really rolling roll call it an invented by andrew carter management of this convention to watch videos or convention roll call so closely is that in nineteen ninety

six when art twenty eight minutes in hong kong primetime television like honestly with this idea because he says it in nobody messes at hand fong at eight eight players to go to indiana as the proud home of one of the world's most respected leaders senator richard g lugar aq the route of all of our next republican governor congressman david mack and ties and proud to be one of the strongest states in the union for our

next president of the united states george w bush madam secretary indiana passes both houses to counteract really are breadwinners in the state of iowa holds the first of the nation caucuses and last january we had the privilege of launching george w bush on the road to the president's a sort of a we follow up on the state of iowa world that's known for excellence in education family farmers who need the world and home loans and people who are citizens of this great country and we probably get started twenty five delegates votes for the next president of the united states there are just not be a boy

wanna fight now there will suspend the rules and because of the night the idea that the culture of the great state of texas and texas and it's so great to take it maybe has their solos all my family

friends and supporters back home in texas happy with us here tonight pursuant to the rules adopted by this convention the chair at this time intensive exercise of discretion and suspend the roll call to nominate our candidate for president it is our intention to resume the call of the role during the southern states you're in session three beginning with the great state of kansas we will now proceed with the order of business as a critic of the official program a person's because chess you're here with me i was talking to inadvertently earlier they were here in the us was wear heels and wall street journal columnist for hugo the deal here is that they will continue this rolling ball over roll call until wednesday night derisively bush will have enough votes to secure the nomination and that will continue it with but

some states are holding back their voter or passing and so what texas can put him over the top is not official it was explained a day until all the votes are cast in the officially nominated on no on thursday night marked this is george w bush's convention whatever else isn't it certainly is gender the twentieth century republicans all the way out fifty two years ago the senate for forty two years it allows for thirty two years and right now it's been since nineteen fifty three people the white house the senate and the house returns in this convention and this party sees george w bush as the tribune of the republican agenda at all three branches and he's calling all the shots is teachers that's what happens when you see a nominee who has that potential is in the polls as well and you see a party that's not a power for years wants very much to go and it sees george bush as a

vehicle for an awful lot of its effect is deferring the full show to hear this is this is a show i mean this is you're going to see a lot of members of congress here you have a sea otter republican politicians here and i see a lot of it is there's a lot of people that george bush wants to have here to illustrate his agenda his policies and his message is a new tomorrow there's an evil he wants to put his face on the party and the republican party right now is happy to have his face on it and he gets more popular in the party and there is any question that jim not since nineteen seventy six but one exception has been a republican so a scene tonight is a perhaps a dynasty interrupted their restoration and i get it now is also throughout the convention is another gathering of newshour regular isn't there with race norris we'll be getting a longer view of the conventions and the republican party from these newshour regulars presidential historians doris kearns goodwin and michael beschloss author and journalist james johnson

enjoying them tonight king james a senior fellow at the heritage foundation and director of its citizenship projects she's a bush delegate from virginia where she was dean of the robertson school of government at regent university well people like the co chair of the chair of the platform committee have said a different kind of convention with a different kind of candidate is it a different kind of republican party michael riley is a republican or if you look at the demographics of those delegates on that for what you know the difference is going to be that this is a party that has been out of power for eight years the white house yesterday and one of the things that really pushes parties to the center is not leaders say i was centrist party it's that sense of being out in nineteen fifty two the republicans had been out of the white house for twenty long years and turned over they were desperate to get back in they were willing to go along with dwight eisenhower was centrist policies they never would've accepted another time

i think you're looking at a new party are many core values are the same but they being articulated in quite a different way and there are many of us who are happy to see them come on tv tower mean spirited language that sometimes accompanied some of the rhetoric while he may agree with the principles that expressed just cringed at how they were calculated and i think you're seeing are some new leadership that's expressing expressing those views and compassionate and compelling ways really getting more perspectives later in the program back to you know all that's an interesting point that cage and just made that the tower mean spirited party is the law so you describe the party of the rich didn't always tried to islamic revolutionary fervor for a while was the voice was the face of the party bob dole became that face in nineteen ninety six and he was a man with an honorable path and i'm very liberal yes but he was floored by that person sometimes have a less optimistic vision of

conservatism than for example ronald reagan was the most successful conservative politician in the latter half of the central question about george bush i think has made the calculation correctly on the conservative ideas sell better beat up with a tall man in a concert of temptations always passes the world's going to hell in a hand basket is going there very fast and we're standing athwart history yelling stop the bill baucus famous phrase from the fifties what would you say now is this is our history and we can help create and we can create a governing conservatives that removes an easy target for the democrats there's a lot of steel idea running against newt gingrich and his characters' jet that part of that is born of the fact that the country is a big country is positive so there's not really that need the summit stand up and point of view of the law and center with support within the past week isn't a desire in the country the changes

that that would put their power over the bush tax cuts but without a reasonable cherry picking but we have only make it better so this is not a revolution we talk about it or not to talk about storming the gates just on the rampant and now i call it throughout most of the twentieth century and the nineteenth century conservatives sort of had a lot of grumpiness about the sort of a year or two to try to sell a smile and it i get jacked him putting an end reagan would follow that a conservative activist was a big hit it was already cold showers and i think that that was george w bush certainly that sunny side conservatism is as part of his caucus also believes temporarily because governments naturally the video you mentioned the

newshour earlier this at all that one of the big sources just begun but you looked at the schedule before the speakers are going to be there is a huge hole and that is anybody on the republican republican house representatives who had anything to do with the impeachment brought against president clinton and that's no accident as no it's not it's addictive deliberate calculation and also realize you're running against hillary rodham clinton new york state does not have a position here of promise at the convention in his delivery because bush's ideas one of his messages as well coming from outside of washington i wanna transcend partisan fights the food fights but boy was i they just republicans or transcend all bring to a bipartisan message that he's won it doesn't want to do that because he thinks that that could help the flecks of al gore's attacks we also thinks the public in the mood that marked his crimes which is not a really wants that kind

of a problem solver well i think it makes sense given that the public will become rich and make no mistake about it when he spoke about this a conventional this convention hall is far to the right of the country the delegates are going to have to watch it for example the new york times poll by a six to one margin americans at forty forty one in oregon and texas we see lots of children on this convention and republicans by by difficult for one republicans outside of this convention all feel the same way this convention split right down the middle on the question i think this is a conservative group before sending take the surplus when americans won overwhelmingly music there by a four one margin to take years a security medicare other tax at this convention hall of elegance once by three one margin tax cuts always a security medicare so he's trying to keep a tight rein on this crowd because left to your own devices it

requires you to get up here and i think what you see is a twenty five minute speech which they don't need it and he's doing this the difference between what these folks in this hall believe in what the party generally believes you really look all that i don't think it overstates it is a victory on taxes and there's been a change for the last four five points towards that publicly much more assertive on taxes without question these are the activists the democratic convention tens of the public employee unions that tends to be heavily on union members' heads to be more liberal parties of the reason the activities that people were in politics because of ideas because they care about a passionate about <unk> the senate amendment passes we do a lot of these activists do not but they decided that in this year they're the new senator and because of that he explained it yours you're not missing a thing of what happened that these things you know

other than the tendency is always a political convention like this is for things like well this one is running early they got an earlier start because they wanted to have some time to the key speaker remember the key speakers at the end of the evening or for the wife of the governor of the soon to be nominee and the first lady of texas and then colin powell and they're they're building up to that and they want all of that to come in a certain time so in order to do that they got a little bit early and the ruling they're rolling out a roll call didn't take quite as long as expected so they're playing music down there and the flow between now and in the time that big speakers come of course it would be going back for that vote in nevada to be talking about education and other going to be talking about other issues some of all of these geared toward interviews and laura bush first then alibaba let's go back now to ray suarez

still with male presidential historians doris kearns goodwin and michael beschloss journalist and author haynes johnson and heritage foundation's senior fellow and bush delegate kate james those alternatives that you see the republican party talked about it and the old splits main street versus wall street international us versus isolation as the regional differences are those relevant anymore in those terms mean anything anymore not as much in terms of american politics but what does matter is if you have a whole have the white house because that means you hit the courts they decide on what tax policy will be you decide where the country's going to go in this republican party right now as they were just friends with gm point where they desperately want where they won five out of the six presidents elect since nineteen sixty eight nineteen eighty two and then the last two elections they thought they should've won bill clinton and he never wanted to be the one of those elections so they think those so almost elections that they should have

had and now they are putting together a unified front that has great resonance about the state of the country now the thing that strikes me is that it's completely understandable that in order to win they paper over their differences and there have absolutely every right to do that and i think it's actually good for the country that the language is toned down i don't think it helps anyone in the country in nineteen ninety two to hear buchanan railing against certain parts of our country on the other hand politics is about the vision it's about fighting for once ideas and i think it's possible to have an exciting convention and have it not be scarlett they could've had debates between pro and pro choice people i'm pro life people they could have those politicians that they're afraid to put on the floor on debating senator trent lott of the world didn't have the power once this presidency gets going instead they put ordinary people are talking very movingly about things but that's not what politics as i'm in the old days the convention floor with a place where platform plank actually debated on the floor and made a story what they would say no as you wanted if you're in the media we

have stories like it's much more fun to write about a doll is rather than divisive they might say what are those differences still there is there's still an isolationist sentiment in certain regions of the country versus an outward looking into the nationalist wing of his party were who were any other there used to be about one one boy eisenhower became president in nineteen fifty three he had a day with a republican party that was that was not only mentally isolationist but many of them didn't even support nato which eisenhower been the chief of retired from to run for president we sometimes forget how much he had to do to get many in his own party to accept you america being in an international system and fighting the soviet union so he was able to do that nowadays the divisions are different but i think in a way george w bush was an alum the old war between the moderate and conservative wings because his father george bush or george h w bush began in connecticut shows sort of the epitome of a moderate eastern republican

went down to texas and george bush president bush's political career took place within the time the republican party really move from the northeast to the southwest he tried to adapt to that finally caught doing what we're going to see tonight in this week is whether his son can do that better than he can let's be clear you're absolutely right when you talk about the different types of republicans that have existed over the years but there's one type of republican at this convention and that's a republican that wants well let's be clear there and you know when we talk about that as though it were original idea by republicans all my work let's put on a happy face lead so let's set aside our differences let's come together and unify word we learned that how about democrats a debit so affectively and not one the white house so both parties do it out of chicago and sixty eight countries changed very

sensitive to people today than we were ten years ago twenty years ago people travel overseas americans were hoping to be an interesting thing to me we never saw before now when allied but that they are profoundly affected the way people feel about their no longer is the isolation used to get him in a little town well you're right the backup know most of people are voting so these conventions are the art is to try to persuade people we got something he was like well how does the convention reflect the end of the cold war the changes in america knew that you alluded to that affluence does it take the sting out of some of these traditional fights the tensions between a globalizing economy and people who worry about farmers of the tension between capitals represented by wall street and people who worry about main street well you know i think that there's still a

gory deal of debate and discussion and tension that goes on within the parties it's just at different times i think you'll see that happen in both parties for the platform debates and discussions carefully were here last week and caught some of the debate that was going on during that period you would've seen it happen they are such just been moved out of prime time but those debates going on they went on a civil manner people express their views on a variety of issues and so i think it was seen that kind of guy yeah make the place to look for it now is not necessarily on the convention floor but perhaps a scary to me you know about young people's attitudes have heard a study recently that said they didn't think it mattered who became president that's a luxury that you can only say in a time of peace and prosperity and it's not true even now and you wish they were watching these conventions i mean it's like forget whether people will go into war by the president's social justice issues economic issues and even though the cold war is not there as it was when we could tell it mattered one side might winnow the

other even though we're not in a recession or depression thank god leadership matters enormously a country and it just makes me so sad that young people can come away on a paul say who cares which one that we don't need to watch this thing we should be watching on that matters marin you know that moment when people were galvanized doris is actually write our winner is an international crisis great questions of warren is like nineteen eighty the soviet union nineteen forty what to do about hitler you don't need leadership rouse people because everyone knows what the stakes are same thing with economics when you're in a depression of course the president to make a big difference in those issues is sure it's fascinating are actually off the table more or less because if george w bush al gore becomes president you're not going to have a hugely different foreign policy from one of the other is the same thing is true more or less in economics so what you've got is a debate a look at more on the margins and what you really need is a leader who's going to arouse people with his or her vision to get them to enter the system and these activists doris

is unfortunately still has passed now that's interesting because the elections the last elections were harmed actions they were won by when bill clinton was elected by women republicans can't win this thing and a lot of the polls now show them actually having a little bit of an edge over their democratic candidate but also takes place against a backdrop of a demographic revolution has continued to study one out of every ten americans at this moment or more that's mostly patent hundred years and the n and that population is increasing enormous freight hispanic voter aesthetic citizens are thirty seven percent increase this is just an enormous change in what the old america was not reach into this country politically you know i hope we can keep this campaign on the issues because i would disagree i think there are some major differences and the economic policies of both candidates major issues of difference on their foreign policy as well as some of

the best policy issues if we can keep it civil and if we can keep it on issues then i think there is a major choice been presented to the american people how exciting that would be to see a campaign based on issues where they're presented to the american people that they debated vigorously and the people decide for civility certainly going to be a watchword tonight and this week i've never heard so many politicians talking about a convention that should be fun and upbeat and positive and forward looking so they were going to have some of those fights you've been talking about what we've had in the past ha ha ha i suppose i mean i suppose if they can conduct a debate on the issues as you say without descending into personal recriminations the country will stand for that any more countries telling their politicians we don't like that sort of stuff this is joint which is

that people are looking to see if the products that are very chemical nobody can like how you figured what you see his father served as the genetic it all comes down to the map the test he said i am that man that's russia we ask about this well let's wrap it up for now and go back to the convention coverage and to mark and all before we are he's following up on what they were signing a desire when coming together cetera what this convention's about what the campaign to be about is about although is what they are going to do when they win and that is what now live in a moment the convention i were going to some of these issues and everything that the sticky years i was at as one of the keys to the end of the first key is pushes a person bush leadership bush character make the country comfortable with with him as a leader of the second key and something common be watching carefully is that agenda and that substance because there is a

danger i think michael dukakis fell for it somewhat in nineteen eighty eight when he said the campaign is not about this campaign will not be about ideology but competence and this this this there is a tendency there were some that the bush campaign has to kind of were distinctions a little too much they do have to have an agenda an agenda on the table that can just be about personality they have to show that here at the convention you know i think when george w bush has done so far gm which has been affected since the primaries as he's cut down the edge to the democrat party on issues like health care on issues like education i think he sees religion a considerable degree pledged over the differences between the two parties it is not in it because the republicans are so eager to win and pragmatism is in the driver's seat there's been precious little criticism in his spending increases in the past would've gotten editorial writers in the conservative side very exercised and he's done was spent

billions more in education and an end and i really think that you know he has really done a terrific job of cutting the angel of advantage democrats against oregon you mentioned education and that's the us the topic where the convention's moving now let's go first got it when i thought her position has thought the convention floor for an interview dr jemmott and abel maldonado is a delegate from california and he's the son of mexican immigrants he also will be giving a speech on thursday night at the convention and in spanish it's going to be one of those speeches but also the first speech and why he's speaking spanish and the tone of the country what america means to me why am the son of immigrants came to this country with nothing in his pockets are working hard to save money to have a sign of the republican party nomination will be about immigration it will be

about opportunity was given opportunities committee about what america means to me how can a poor man come to america work harder and speak at the republican national convention is thirty years later it's the holiday closely the debate in the form of that immigration issue much fanfare kind of a governor bush has made it very clear that he's a nigerian who's going to bring people together and i think that having a mere speaking on thursday night on this night there's a sense of you don't bring people together you say that you need to bring one with an accent why has that is there some reason why ronnie lott you see hispanic populations grow it's going over the country but in the olden days the republican party would go up no say you know we're bringing hispanic support for spanish an image of hope for this guy to come on board but i can tell you this is these are new times and if you go to the orioles we have to go talk to the hispanics and tell him who we are what we stand for and why were the party for hispanic community so why is this party

towards a new party we have a new messenger we have new faces and it's a great party were excited this convention the new convention bring a lot of tourist now as you know you cannot lump all hispanics the latinos together and different people from different countries if they want to defend how do you do that without looking like if you're being you're being in making the whole hispanic media giant monolith this is a country of opportunities in their militias and no one in his administration i would try to do is that my speech party in spanish which is going to be historic and nobody's ever done that and we're going to try to do is to make sure that we let the states now that we're not going to take a vote for granted we want their votes in our party and we know that if we give a hispanic but we're gonna win this race in the final simultaneous translation to know that they're absolutely going the boats that don't speak spanish are we surveyed have simultaneously symbolism on the part of the party is how valuable is that i think it's very valuable i think i'm a symbol a symbol of opportunity

and just having the governor hand the speech on thursday night this is for america i think hispanics are very very crowded going to be very proud of the port of great speech on thursday night just being here until you're stuck to the ceiling just being here is incredible like it was the minister delegate never ever speak to now that i have this opportunity and looking forward to hopefully we get more hispanic americans of all over latin america please come on board enjoy newport with new faces and human sneeze because the platform has changed its language on immigration that the party has really changed i think so i think governor bush proposed media he has given some type of permits to bring people to america what my father and my father he was a guest worker with searle in nineteen sixty four the first time he came in the front seat like most americans all americans do and that's what we're trying to do to mexico's our neighbor we needed to your neighborhood at our neighbors

also there's an official at the official language is that something that you apply absolutely i mean i i believe you want to transform america better no english but also the one atrocity there are no other languages but also a nice coarse language is spanish this education as claudia kirkley great teacher who will thank you thank you so much mr stein i graduated from what's the guys go and say these state university and i'm not very many at their

home and they can distort to law school because they're failing sometimes in incorporating unable to read and write but nonetheless my colleagues and i tell them that expectations for achievement i very high and we tell them we understand that life is hard but we still expect outstanding effort and achievements weeks now that we expect them to be young ladies and gentlemen at all times on a story we're last year we took out for greatest of the theater to see him play with bill would not really students from others will and that's the performance the magic came to me and said i don't know how you do it enough to start with your children where a pleasure to have been here three tickets out next performance please come back the differences expectations may flare expectations and

to pontiac and democrats who are hard workers laid off our students are reading by the end of kindergarten they studied foreign languages and astronomy and tackles subjects like algebra and plane geometry and the fourth grade and we consistently score and that's up five percent on national exams students wear uniforms actually distress like professionals and our lady or small it's a bright and cheery even the community around this has improved and since we opened our doors forty years ago still enrolled minutes down from one hundred and fifty students to six hundred and we're growing kind of the point and here is their choice schools that fail to school that up orderly and

demand success with high expectations mart's giving teachers the freedom to create an innovative marcus jordan teaches accepting no excuses marcus welby and a wealthy are going up more carbon sense to pay people a wide support and i understand all of these things and education pizza my languages as the prime

years of this convention education of the discussion of education at a republican convention as is going on tonight he's also one of them mark solve the new republican party which is everyone has been talking about tonight mr warner has more on that governor bush and the republican party is trying to shape going to take a look at right now in perspective we turn to congressman peter king of new york and ralph reed an advisor to the bush campaign former director of the christian coalition he's now president of a political consulting firm and author david frum a senior fellow at the manhattan institute a conservative policy research organization welcome gentlemen from here we had the opening of the convention republican party that came from it acacia and the training that parents saying what you make of the whole tenor and cast of this convention the registry what this is like that first scene and singing in the rain with a soundtrack and they didn't track don't quite

nationality with the science of film actors and you look at the platform this is a staunch firm conservative party sexual platform from a conservative or interview with a strong views on missile defense and on privatizing social security the images they're projecting however are not soft but also rejecting the tradition republicans are is like fabulous in which would say education is not that dramatic and these two things are attention and the hope is i think that each of the different audiences will hear different portions the question will be what happens if the same audience years both do you see it that way that that the face of this convention really is not to face the republican party ideas into resigning and over the past few years we got away from a traditional republican conservative i think education should be strong republican position that began as a sidetrack of an officer other issues that caught up in the whole world in our president clinton i think that is a genuine selling all the republican position would tune in a way that the average person can understand so when david is right things i think the fact is i would much rather have apologist

for porsche people in terms appreciate those then governor bush insisted on this face of the convention while offering well i think it was a matter of the grassroots also one that today's summit was remembered that we as a party not just governor bush but all of us those at the grassroots support and this convention really reflect our will on after all governor bush was not imposed on this party he won the primaries overwhelmingly the grassroots wanted him to be the nominee and out what was happening or is we allowed for too long the issues that were critical to our country like education health care and the environment to be conceded to the other party that was a mistake we're not gonna do any more now we're going to have different views than them our agenda for those issues is very different than the democrats were going to make our views known to make a priority as opposed to just ceding the entire field where was this is the democrats recognize going on at that they'd see defense krugman well for us and a change that we're now that shows that for healthcare environment education is in fact governor bush

doing trying to get the republican party what bill clinton did to the democratic i would just try to reshape it in a more centrist direction those terms actually the governor i think one of the things that he's trying to do is a terrific gamble is his vision is that the republicans do better in a low intensity environment that the less people care the less enthusiasm his side has and the other side has the better he'll do that hasn't always worked in the thing that because you're saying that the bass was just the conservative base these these are issues that i think the republican base and the republican on base both say about those are moderately important things but they are not the issues that really get people the polls really get excited really get them watching television this is not exciting television and i don't think that happened by accident that that that mr bush we set a low intensity environment is his best one end what that the great great risk for him is that the republican victories in the past and one in high intensity

burns republican issues are issues that people really care about it is it just the other way i think is a prescription for winning is it also the american people have made it clear they want to greece towards the white house they don't want partisan cheap one way to show until twenty one way to show leadership is to do what on issues and not necessarily partisan or philosophical or education they made one healthcare being one the environment and more he's all issues with george bush and show that he is prepared to lead that is difficult predecessor is a man of integrity is not going to abide by people over the head with corruption issues and i would just say by the way david to david's point that and it depends on how you define high intensity and in the cow palace in nineteen sixty four when nelson rockefeller was built insufficient intensive pat buchanan declaring a quarter were knighted convention i was on the floor during that speech there was a loud loud cheering you know we carry sixteen states that for an end when governor bush has shown this part isn't new way he's made clear that you don't have to have this false dichotomy between both conservative and compassion you can be both

and what's happened the result is that when he first ran in ninety four we held a nine out of twenty eight statewide offices in texas today we hold twenty out of twenty eight he's doing something right the national party has a lot to learn from george w bush and it should do so so what's wrong with that vision well two things that did it make it may well be brilliantly may well works that one of the things that the george bush's would have trouble asserting its bosses that he's had a mandate for government republicans have been since nineteen eighty the party of reform that democrats are the party more lessons spending the status quo that they are republicans or the nineteen thirties nineteen sixties one of the reasons that we have to our faces are so much more bruises than theirs is because we've been on opposite you you get kicked him and more of the republicans continue to be the party of major change reform the privatization of social security is no small matter and if you have not amassed it is not a mass popular sport it's hard to get much

done as it is at the politics is like that or babe ruth long homerun baseball week what precisely the place these days we want to or if you haven't gotten your mum and so many disconnects about pregnant with that intensity if you agree with david frum that he may have trouble actually advance in a very conservative agenda is in rome i think in thirty years i think is running on the ball this reform agenda other nominee of either party says right away sorry we have threatened can do you can guess we're gonna volume for more on education from largo mayors of milwaukee wisconsin cheese of and trained for native new yorkers of parents whose orders you know bushes are on the night

new one of three you will win as a nine years new the entire family to point to this newest washington was thinking lynn lost the presidency himself most favorably warren's of education and the importance of including parents teachers workers folks that are going to work every day and to communities across this country the next person that i would say is

a prime example of someone who was out there every day doing the hard work to improve the lives of children in her community villagomez is a mother who knows the character equality in education both how to use a forceful advocate for her own children and for those of low income families everywhere the latinos that the right education makes all the difference in the parental school choice as the key to our children's future ladies and gentlemen please welcome the woman's the pages he's been the problem chris bees bees and money and

it's her to be in philadelphia tonight to share my story with all of you and this thing a mother i worry i worry for my children their safety and their future but as you know my children have attended both public and private schools the arnold in school with school didn't want a parental choice program the countries birth school choice program for low income family law trying to find myself speaking here i'm surprised because i'm a democrat but i'm the closest to my heart and the education of my

children and my right to choose their schools are in line for a no child should be in school that doesn't work at every child deserves the chance to learn and fifty parental choice is not about public versus private schools have the right school for each child about our appearance to make that choice here in sanaa what works more flexibility more accountability and more choice reports supported by governor and governor bush parental choice parental choice

is about trust when i got into that school choice he was seeing people leaving me in the ability of the low income parents give you the best tools for children as i come here tonight as one of the fortunate few i have been empowered by school choice and i know how much you have meant to my children and me the challenge now is to bring parental choice the families like mine a part of this country that's why i work for an organization that works to give here and more school choice and that's why i'm here tonight at the institute for justice governor tommy thompson and the bank for supporting real options her parents were working in your parents like me the power to operate your children up quality education and the opportunity to

succeed governor bush or believing in parents and children we know you will leave no child behind and truly important role appear again you would not see in anbar through here one of our nation's foremost advocate for adoption with chronic or a director and president of the institute for children foreigners all worthwhile experience guides her work and inspired all were fortunate enough to meet her because migrants today to introduce ms cohen a gray

as how as frankie lyman i a few years ago a few years ago i met a twelve year old girl named katrina hitting ads spent most of her life

she explains to me that by the time she was two years old and now the resistance strands heintze says that understand the first nine times the judge was trying to get my mom that sense but on the tenth time when a pitcher you know this town's authority says her mother admitted to burning a child and the judge thinks that foster care issue remains rest of her childhood to tell me all i ever wanted was the last eighteen months the family members here is not alone more than seven hundred thousand children

was then fall apart in foster care stadiums why this sounds of this convention center not only all children for adoption and some nights and waving their families i understand the wings i was a foster child's for eight years then family adopted me and gave me a lasting memory of my dad joe

grey and sadness the institute for children institute works for policymakers to remove the bureaucratic obstacles that question to languish in foster care we work with love interests me more humane stations loving child welfare system that really works understands the needs of children lost their favorite events in texas demonstrate its commitment to real change its kind children's in texas waiting for adoption has been cut nearly in during the past decade more than doubled since nineteen ninety six

george w bush has announced his strong families save children initiative to give states more resources to help families in crisis to ensure that children living things unstable environments to provide more financial support for adoption and to help children age out of power and as president you're supposed to say it's commitment nationwide notes what my father would not even a new zealand more than promises

morning programs and impermanence loving family and you also have a politician facing what's the focus of this convention with a more inclusive elections

one place was then where you report that for the early supporters of the congress and george w bush to sign on the point of the piece be we want to hear here the future of the georgia any irrigation water from schoolyard for this neighborhood as well as in washington dc and in indianapolis indiana for was alive and well and cornerstones films and are coming here as a profile and for that

we're not going to go to win i thought for an interview in her position when it and i didn't hear it again people of arizona he's obviously out of our republic and she is also a former schoolteacher and this is the first republican convention she's actually ever attended is called welcome telling what is it about george w bush's record in education particularly the use the accountability the ability to set standards in texas is that some of the highest in the nation were trying to raise their standards and the ability to believe that nine thousand eleven and nine and i believe that as a teacher i have always believed in and id character his best advice to sample were you surprised in watching the way that the republican platform unfolded that they decided to embrace that language that would call for the abolishing of education now it was time to do than any and we've invited little bitty things that i think

the most important thing is what republicans and we're even arguing with democrats well and manny has seen that federal dollars a blow to the state's image we're flexible banner because we're the ones now yang of republicans saying almost to a person that it's important for the federal government to have a whirlwind areas of education that suggest that i had it i think you will see that republicans would like the department to run well we weren't organizing around and wealth we wanted to say yes we want it it went with a certain director to set policy for the painting is we want to see those federal dollars if they're gonna be in the education business has to do the best job we can do is because every state has different tommy thompson of wisconsin told us the platform we just

republicans are positioning themselves and that republicans have rediscovered education and i think there are a lot of us that never forgot a line in arizona where portions we're still joyous we have situations vouchers we have a well competition we have built last year years ten years a well accountability and those things to me first and i believe that we're doing a good job in arizona to educating our children will do a better job with immigration as president you say the governor that the republicans have rediscovered education you're from the state of arizona and the republican party who also are discovered here one of your senior senator senior senator john mccain knew when he didn't necessarily see it his campaign with anything that is a presence in the race has changed things i believe the tragedy and i knew all i would be a very good soldier he always has them and i knew that in the end really can't really do what he has done and he really sees no evidence

that he is supporting and i believe his philosophy which is a very very close together on education and other domestic social issues and won more of the voters now that those between now november the government needs to allow us to talk to us you know everybody is doing that we're going to go to margaret warner and for perspective on how far the republican party has moved on education and why we turn to margaret lamontagne governor bush's education advisor delegate cheryl wins in oklahoma a platform committee member and a longtime volunteer in oklahoma school system and republican pollster bill mcinturff i came

in eighty six platforms devices and formed called for an end to federal meddling in local schools that used the phrase governor bush insisted on far different language this time with a greater federal law well i think that of the ways that the american people believe that that the federal law to be limited lean and muscular and that that there is a role for the federal government we spent fourteen billion dollars a year or so on education policy and we ought to get something for it when you have seventy percent of kids in fourth grade here read we better get the war ended and there are a lot of solutions and that the governor's idea of using the leverage of whatever filling their ears which is a lot to really demand accountability her standards from schools reform absolutely and that's the recipe that we've used in texas as local control and here's what the patrol with strong accountability and that's how we're going to get to the real deliver on no child be left behind if you don't do those things were not going to be national once you're leading voice in the platform committee calling for going back to the original language abolish the department of education the particular liking

this language of greater federal involvement why because i've seen firsthand what federal involvement as the policy unit in schools and less than four percent of the total amount of money from the federal government and the federal government dictates ninety percent of the paperwork there has changed and i think it should be a long term goal that we can size limit curtail abolished participation because we have state department educational common and george bush weighed sets and what needs to be done and i would see him only a guess and it's going to take time to get there but it's just an ultimate goal that i would like to see says they sound like two different parts of the party in an interview on the source the republican party really moving the system is well i think most republicans want less federal bolivar that when i want better local schools but what happened in nineteen ninety six was our party said we're going to cut the federal education so that ten a billion dollars could be spent locally what happened though politically is no one ever heard the second

part they just heard cut the department of education and for too many american cement basin will that means i don't really want to i think the topic they don't really care about education and we never got the second part kroszner was our fall and we have to get we have to as a party and go over bushes done this demonstrates americans that we're serious about improving local schools i think that's what's been exciting about governor bush camp and i think thats the one issue was really carried forth from the day and asked is he right that as far as voters are concerned i know you're not in office or you don't run for office but that the american public is looking for greater accountability if that means a little federal engagement than as a parent as a mom is a longtime volunteer and i'm just a mom and i think that proves the republican party is the party of the people we ourselves i hear and the federal government to help you why are the schools to be better there is a

clamoring for and pregnant and we see it in texas we all want a world where little scared because of kauai virus mr sachs it stopped selling party that was one states to develop standards and assessment systems to the standards on along too and i think parents are going to be empowered and connect all in on their decisions when they have more information and that's what we that's the lesson of texas that when parents know how good or bad or schools are they demand change and that's the power of accountability mr bush think the party's been essentially wrong for quite a while on this woodsy think the times have changed and that is what's necessitating perhaps more federal involvement that the party would ordinarily embrace well i think more the times have changed and i think we've got to get out the notion i were illiterate it that george bush versus al gore jr and al gore wants to be the federal superintendent education with lots of processed in flint dictates from from washington and george bush's about results over process we're gonna take sixty program streamline them down to five

more local control and accountability that's the recipe for success texas leads the nation and let's let's put it in place have had to vote for your polling voters' views changed in terms of what they were victims the degree of federal involvement they're ready to sell now that you know people don't really coming in most americans anyway the republicans not what a heavy hand of federal government but i'll tell you what is important and that is that people care about education here in this panel their minds they are swing voters and their very critical the selection and we have a candidate right now on the issue of education is tied with a democrat four years ago our candidate bob dole was sixteen points down interesting people thought was good on this issue and because governor bush has been at once every day talking about educational what he's done in texas a lot of women a lot of swing voters it is a different republican and he really does know a terrible position and a summer read again some of the prior i will say his strongest suit from those in the primary period every time i go back to education could seize partial comfort and you could see

that enthusiasm as he told the texas story so is the gardener persuaded that he would be able to bring the party along on what he wants to say and the congress people such as bitter winds might vote for her representatives absolutely i don't think you're always have a lot of confidence that a george bush administration the george bush secretary of education understands this lean and muscular progressively diminishing role of the federal government and my choice is your choice we know you have done i said evolving and that is george burgess and so he's the one we are supporting we don't always agree on everything they do thank you and as we're going back to the podium there was jc watts who mostly to

southern california voters immigration and civil society the speaker is with heritage foundation he's coordinator of the united way mark warkentin on labor day than america's opportunities elaine chao overcame early challenges to become one of the nation's leading advocates of volunteers and community service serving as the president's executive officer of united way of america land turn the organization around restoring the public's trust and confidence of the right to use force to stop was the first out of the programs in the newly independent states of the former soviet union and its deputy secretary of the united states department of transportation she became dean martin you're the highest ranking asian pacific american in us history have served in the

executive branch of our government recognizes one of america's great success stories plays local lanes job ahead sen believe me i have to say a special special law and give my love to my post a delegation of kentucky said haiti's and this is just one of the union tonight and we love you well

eighties and i also wanted a special thank you to my parents were in the audience nod as well thank you gave me you know i am proud to be here tonight to share a story of an immigrant family my families love for america you know many years ago my parents young and that's totally with all the injuries that the whole land torn by war and instability i was a child my father when he had to make a life for us in america and it's over three long years before you could bring us to this country my mother my sisters and i failed for months on a cargo ship in new york harbor

the statue of liberty to join my father in this great land where freedom and opportunity beckons now i don't have to tell you up early years in america are really tell my father hale three jobs to make ends meet and my mother word over our meagre budget and we missed our friends and family now a world away and the third grade not understand a word of english and every day i would copy whatever was on the blackboard into my notebook and every night after a long day where my father translated that faith lights and struggling to make sense of my child just crawled as i would try and scolds big teeth and the heat and the heat and accused and that's how i learned english

when you know despite these hardships are a state that america was steadfast strengthened by faith in god and family we knew in our hearts that with far more perseverance and the help of new leaf than neighbors and friends we could indeed achieve the american dream when you know the story of my family is not unique it's a story shared by millions of immigrants to america that continues to unfold in communities across our great country every single day you know that story is one of hope and promise of new rivals finding support from their communities their churches are charities and among their neighbors and that's what governor bush's compassionate conservatism is all about strengthening the civil society and

empowering people and communities to care for one another as an everyday job across america immigrant families like mine are drawn to this very special land of call an opportunity with its long standing promise to protect our rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness i also want to say in my travels as peace corps director to remote reaches of the world and challenged by the internet television or even electricity i'd found universal recognition of the word america in any language in these three

young an opportunity for governor george w bush knows the great contribution immigrants make to america and he appreciates that america's image this comes from its diverse heritage individual initiative the bonds of family and community and god's grace and you know offering new immigrants are not welcomed with open arms but instead are confronted with a long line and a bureaucracy that is the interference or worse suspicion will as president george w bush would change the character of the ins more welcoming

immigrant you will lead to the imf cutting into two eighty one or thirty one more important for guiding people and goods as president george w bush will leave this nation by drawing upon its terrain of freedom and opportunity for all and in so doing inspired the world as we move into the twenty first century thank you very much

will speak to the convention by satellite from his church the greater exodus that this church here in philadelphia i love the audience and i see some of my colleagues are on the floor tonight to serve openly in the united states house of representatives led to numerous the name they serve your respective state and our nation extremely well you please give our house members and senators around the law of the state and we're going

now to the great anchors baptist church where you'll be welcomed and inspired by a remarkable man reverend herbert loss as an all american one and back in nfl thought the philadelphia eagles to cover a lot of ground and scored a lot of points today still covering a lot of ground this time in north philadelphia creating opportunity rebuilding lives destroying workers' giving glory to god robin it's an honor to call your number it's been the pride republicans are filmmaking

community renew the pan to the forefront of the american conscience there are no lions and human resources are going to vote because we know that he understands that we must give way so what abc years ago i came to this community live and economic depression and spiritual this is a seven memphis is always a small chance of terrorism thousand five hundred thousand dollars and only three hundred

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it's been bp is continuous live coverage of the republican national convention and i'm jim lehrer and we're back here at the first union center in philadelphia where the musical interlude triggered by the reverend herbert hoover left the second of the greater exodus that this church here in philadelphia's just now included among the maniacal now or position has thought for doubles what remains been on the seat when i had him i have to try again but let's remember to let the foreclosure on a republican national convention that the candidate tonight we've seen any member of evil of roaming the streets here really live here and it actually volunteer pat robertson and later the formative a chance of push push push on the floor with a former president and mrs bush