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| Lot # 105 PRESIDENT JAMES E. "JIMMY" CARTER - SPEECH UNSIGNED CIRCA 1976 - Document 266012 |
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ORIGINAL DRAFT OF JIMMY CARTER'S ADDRESS ACCEPTING THE 1976 DEMOCRATIC
NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT, BEARING 153 WORDS IN CARTER'S HAND INCLUDING THIS
ATTACK ON REPUBLICANS: "USE LINE ABOUT EVERY MISTAKE--/VIETNAM, CHILE, VIA
EXCESSES, ETC. - HAPPENED BECAUSE PLOTTED IN SECRECY WITHOUT U.S. PEOPLE".
JIMMY CARTER. Typed Manuscript, 8p. No date, but 1976.
Eight pages from a draft of his July 15, 1976 speech accepting the Democratic
nomination for President. Pages are numbered 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 14
(concluding page of speech). Not signed, but bearing 153 words in Carter's
handwriting. Adviser STUART EIZENSTADT is mentioned frequently by
Carter ("Stu") on these pages. In the Carter White House, Eizenstadt
served as Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs and Policy. The
following are quotes from the eight pages, Carter's handwritten edits and
comments, and related excerpts from Carter's acceptance address delivered at the
Democratic National Convention in Madison Square Garden on July 15, 1976.
ADDITIONAL EDITS COMMENTS AND EXCERPTS AT WWW.GALLERYOFHISTORY.COM. From
Typed Manuscript (page 5): "Our people want jobs, too, and a stable economy, and
we have outlined a program that combines incentives to increased hiring by the
private sector, with public employment programs that will help clean up our
urban areas and preserve our environment." At the left, Carter has handwritten:
"we need a stronger/statement on jobs, inflation/& unemployment".
From Carter's actual speech, delivered at Madison Square Garden on the
evening of July 15, 1976: "I believe that anyone who is able to work ought to
work-and ought to have a chance to work. We will never have an end to the
inflationary spiral, we will never have a balanced budget-which I am determined
to see-as long as we have eight or nine million Americans out of work who cannot
find a job." From Typed Manuscript (page 6): "I've always been a Democrat, as
were my parents and my grandparents. I've been one at least since I was eight
years old. In 1928 and 1932, when our Convention was going on, I used to go out
to our car in the middle of the night and hook up the battery radio into the
battery of the car to see who would be our nominee. In those days, on a farm
three miles outside of Plains, Georgia, in the middle of the night, I felt a
long way from the Democratic Party's selection process. I feel a lot closer to
it tonight. I can remember, as some of you can, when in the darkest hours of the
Depression, Franklin Roosevelt told us we had nothing to fear but fear itself.
We are the heirs of Harry Truman, who told the political faint of heart that if
they couldn't take the heat they should get out of the kitchen. Ours is the
party of John Kennedy, who inspired a generation by telling us not to ask what
out country could do for us, but what we could do for our country. Ours is the
Party of Lyndon Johnson, a Texan who told us, 'We shall
Overcome,' and helped us overcome racial prejudic[e wit]h his historic
legislative program." Carter crossed out "Texan", replacing it with
"Southerner" and replaced the entire line with: "perhaps more than any
President in this century advanced the cause of human equality in the United
States". Then everything was crossed out with a diagonal line. Carter then
penned: "add car/radio/story?" (which was done) and at the left,
handwrote: "Norman Cousins/phrase". From Carter's actual speech,
delivered at Madison Square Garden on the evening of July 15, 1976: "Years ago,
as a farm boy sitting outdoors with my family on the ground in the middle of the
night, gathered close around a battery radio connected to the automobile battery
and listening to the Democratic conventions in far-off cities, I was a long way
from the selection process. I feel much closer to it tonight. Ours is the party
of the man who was nominated by those distant conventions and who inspired and
restored this nation in its darkest hours-Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ours is the
party of a fighting Democrat who showed us that a common man could be an
uncommon leader-Harry S Truman. Ours is the party of a brave young President who
called the young at heart, regardless of age, to seek a 'New Frontier' of
national greatness-John F. Kennedy. And ours is also the party of a
great-hearted Texan who took office in a tragic hour and who went on to do more
than any other President in this century to advanced the cause of human
rights-Lyndon Johnson." Carter went back to "Texan", probably realizing that
Texas had 26 electoral votes and it would be important to mention the state by
name; Carter won Texas in November. On Typed Manuscript (page 7): Carter has
written a quote from theologian Reinhold "Niebuhr/Men's capacity for justice
makes/Democracy possible; man's inclination/to justice makes/democracy
necessary". This wasn't used in his convention address. From Typed
Manuscript (page 9): "More recently, with the leadership of Presidents Kennedy
and Johnson, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and others, we have seen the South,
and other regions as well, begin to move out of the darkness of discrimination
and into the light of human equality." Next to this paragraph, Carter has
handwritten: "Stu/questions/this/reference-/cut?" It was cut and was not
in the July 15th speech. From Typed Manuscript (page 10): "In recent years, our
foreign policy has drifted, has too often been conceived and executed in
secrecy, without the understanding and support of the American people, and has a
result lost its political and moral underpinnings." At this point, Carter has
penned: "Stu suggests use line about every mistake--/Vietnam, Chile, VIA
excesses, etc - happened/because plotted in secrecy without U.S. people".
From Carter's actual speech, delivered at Madison Square Garden on the evening
of July 15, 1976: "Every time our nation has made a serious mistake the American
people have been excluded from the process. The tragedy of Vietnam and Cambodia,
the disgrace of Watergate, and the embarrassment of the CIA revelations could
have been avoided if our government had simply reflected the sound judgment and
good common sense and the high moral character of the American people."
RARELY DO DRAFTS OF HISTORIC SPEECHES APPEAR ON THE MARKET. THEY ARE USUALLY
FOUND IN UNIVERSITY AND PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES. This speech marked the
official beginning of Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign, his first as
the Democratic nominee against President Ford. On November 2, 1976, in a close
election, Carter beat Ford 40.8 million to 39.1 million popular votes and
297-240 electoral votes. Ford won more states, 27, to Carter's 23 and the
District of Columbia. Creased. Lower edge on page 6 has been torn in several
places but is still readable. This document has been cut and pasted with clear
tape. Some of the pasted pieces are a slightly different color. Paper clip
impressions at upper left blank areas. Rust stain from paper clip at top of page
4. Staple holes at upper left corners.
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