○  名人演讲：a tale of two cities  ○

tive few who are lucky enough to live in its good neighborhoods. but for the people who are excluded -- for the people who are locked out -- all they can do is to stare from a distance at that city's glimmering towers.

it's an old story. it's as old as our history. the difference between democrats and republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. the republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind by the side of the trail. the strong, the strong they tell us will inherit the land.

we democrats believe in something else. we democrats believe that we can make it all the way with the whole family intact. and, we have more than once. ever since franklin roosevelt lifted himself from his wheelchair to lift this nation from its knees -- wagon train after wagon train -- to new frontiers of education, housing, peace; the whole family aboard, constantly reaching out to extend and enlarge that family; lifting them up into the wagon on the way; blacks and hispanics, and people of every ethnic group, and native americans -- all those struggling to build their families and claim some small share of america.

for nearly 50 years we carried them all to new levels of comfort, and security, and dignity, even affluence. and remember this, some of us in this room today are here only because this nation had that kind of confidence. and it would be wrong to forget that.

so, here we are at this convention to remind ourselves where we come from and to claim the future for ourselves and for our children. today our great democratic party, which has saved this nation from depression, from fascism, from racism, from corruption, is called upon to do it again -- this time to save the nation from confusion and division, from the threat of eventual fiscal disaster, and most of all from the fear of a nuclear holocaust.

that's not going to be easy. m

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