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1、精品文档2016 全新精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 1 / 141988 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address Ann Richards: 1988 Democratic National Convention Keynote AddressThank you. Thank you. Thank you, very much.Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Buenas noches, mis amigos.Im delighted to be here with you thi
2、s evening, because after listening to George Bush all these years, I figured you needed to know what a real Texas accent sounds like.Twelve years ago Barbara Jordan, another Texas woman, Barbara made the keynote address to this convention, and two women in a hundred and sixty years is about par for
3、the course.But, if you give us a chance, we can perform. After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.I want to announce to this Nation that in a little more than 100 days, the ReaganMeeseDeaverNofzigerPoindexterNorthWeinbergerW精品文档2016 全
4、新精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 2 / 14attGorsuchLavelleStockmanHaigBorkNoriegaGeorge Bush era will be over!You know, tonight I feel a little like I did when I played basketball in the 8th grade. I thought I looked real cute in my uniform. And then I heard a boy yell from the bleachers, Make that basket, B
5、irdlegs!And my greatest fear is that same guy is somewhere out there in the audience tonight, and hes going to cut me down to size. Because where I grew up there really wasnt much tolerance for selfimportance, people who put on airs.I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside
6、 Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio. Well, it was back then that I came to understand the small truths and the hardships that bind neighbors together. Those were real people with real problems and they had real dreams about getting out of the Depression. I can remember
7、summer nights when wed put down what we called the Baptist pallet, and we listened to the grownups talk. I can still hear the 精品文档2016 全新精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 3 / 14sound of the dominoes clicking on the marble slab my daddy had found for a tabletop. I can still hear the laughter of the man tellin
8、g jokes you werent supposed to hear talkin about how big that old buck deer was, laughin about mama puttin Clorox in the well when the frog fell in. They talked about war and Washington and what this country needed. They talked the straight talk. And it came from people who were living their lives a
9、s best they could. And thats what were going to do tonight. Were going to tell how the cow ate the cabbage.I got a letter last week from a young mother in Lorena, Texas, and I wanna read part of it to you. She writes,Well, of course you believe youre forgotten, because you have been.This Republican
10、Administration treats us as if we were pieces of a puzzle that cant fit together. Theyve tried to put us into compartments and separate us from each other. Their political theory is “divide and conquer.” Theyve suggested time 精品文档2016 全新精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 4 / 14and time again that what is of i
11、nterest to one group of Americans is not of interest to any one else. Weve been isolated. Weve been lumped into that sad phraseology called “special interests.” Theyve told farmers that they were selfish, that they would drive up food prices if they asked the government to intervene on behalf of the
12、 family farm, and we watched farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, thats wrong!They told working mothers its all their fault their families are falling apart because they had to go to work to keep their kids in jeans and tennis shoes and college. And theyre
13、 wrong!They told American labor they were trying to ruin free enterprise by asking for 60 days notice of plant closings, and thats wrong. And they told the auto industry and the steel industry and the timber industry and the oil industry, companies being threatened by foreign products flooding this
14、country, that youre protectionist if you think the government should enforce our trade laws. And 精品文档2016 全新精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 5 / 14that is wrong.When they belittle us for demanding clean air and clean water for trying to save the oceans and the ozone layer, thats wrong.No wonder we feel isol
15、ated and confused. We want answers and their answer is that something is wrong with you. Well nothings wrong with you. Nothings wrong with you that you cant fix in November!Weve been told weve been told that the interests of the South and the Southwest are not the same interests as the North and the Northeast. They pit one group against the other. Theyve divided this country, and in our isolation we think government isnt gonna help us, and were alone in our feelings. We feel forgotten.
