"Stand With Me" - Dukakis, Mike (Michael Stanley) - [Democratic], 1988
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Identifier: P-37-1097
"SUMMARY: Candidate pre-election eve talk about still being underdog; about Bush's distortions of his record on crime, environment; about foreign competition and foreign ownership of America ; education standards; health insurance; Bush's tax cuts for wealthy; housing SUBJECTS: negative campaigning; record; crime CREATOR: not listed LENGTH (extent): 00:00:04 GENDER (legacy): Male"
Dates
- Broadcast: 1988
Extent
From the Series: 14,137 Items (14,137 items (This series includes United States Office of President Campaign Ads from 1912-2016): Each item within this collection falls under the following categories: 16mm film reels, VHS videotape, 3/4" U-Matic videotape, 1" and 2" tap, Beta SP, Betamax, Mini DV, DVD, and born-digital video formats.)
Transcription
TRANSCRIPTION: My fellow Americans a year and a half ago. I entered this campaign as an underdog tonight. I enter the final days of that long journey still an underdog and some of you don't know much more about me than a name and a set of labels part of the fault May rest with our own effort but I think it is also fair to say that the other side has pursued a campaign of distortion and distraction of fear and of smear. Are you satisfied with what you were hearing this year? Do you think this is the way to The president of the United States and the leader of the Free World presidential campaign. Should inform not misinform in their TV ads the Republicans have criticized the pollution of Boston Harbor. We're already cleaning up Boston Harbor but what they don't tell you is that it was their Administration that cut off funds to clean it up. And that Mr. Bush supported the veto of the Clean. Water Act not once but twice in their TV ads. The Republicans accuse me of being soft on criminals. That's a lie. My family has been touched by violence at the age of 77. My father was gagged and beaten and robbed. My brother was killed by a hit-and-run driver the pain that my family felt was Indescribable and it's not easy for me to talk about it. But I've led the fight against Crime and Drugs in My Own State and I intend to do so as president. So that other families will not have to live through that kind of pain. It isn't easy for the truth to catch up with allies and to clear up the fog of deception that has been spread across the campaign but I'm determined to fight this fight because the question before us is the strength and the character of our country. I'm not content to see America standstill because all around us
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