Reply #39: as I recall...

[KoKo]

it was in a major speech and I don't think visiting a steel mill would have gotten the kind of coverage I remember. I think it's on Part I of the Nominating Speech...but I hit part II by mistake and once I got into it I had to hear Part III... I will go back to Part I when I have time. He mentioned Steel Workers again at end of Part III so that's what makes me think it's earlier.

I was hoping to find text because there are many young DU'ers who would be shocked to read this speech...since it seems it could be given today...and many others who probably vaguely remember it who would also find it interesting. But, listening to it is very depressing, to me. Actually, devastating when one thinks we are back at the beginning as if nothing occurred in all that time...and we had so many hopes and so many promises were offered. One could be a Rip Van Winkle and wake up 15 years later and the only thing to show for progress in the time inbetween is thousands of new shopping malls, fast food restaurants, big box stores and many, many new homes and gated communities in areas of the country that hadn't boomed at that time. Perhaps I'm being too gloomy about it...but I can't think of any candidate now who would change anything given that the one that was supposed to make all that promise a reality just squandered it away troubling personal behavior, despite the genuine likeability he has been gifted with. Don't see any with the talent of Clinton...but maybe that was his downfall...too much talent with not enough discipline.