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of Ronald Reagan. But I am surprised by the relative silence of the Democratic Party in the aftermath of these dismissals.

"As Governor, I believed we must be willing to use busing until we can be certain that an end of busing will not lead to a return to segregated public schools. As Governor I gave substance to my speeches about equal rights and equal opportunity by appointing women and Hispanics to important offices and by appointing, among many others, a black as my educational adviser, a black as secretary of State, a black as Secretary of the State Department of Community Affairs, blacks to every Board of Trustees for every state and community college in Florida, a black who became Chairman of the Board of Regents that governs Florida's State University System, blacks to the circuit and appellate courts and the first black to the Supreme Court of any southern state since Reconstruction.

"As Governor I pushed through legislation, making the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a legal holiday in that state.

"As President, I would do the same things for this nation."

Senator Ernest Hollings (D., S.C.)

I don't have a chip on my shoulder because I, and many of my distinguished colleagues here at this convention, have come a long way together through the years. Let me start right away with my voting record.

"When I read that NAACP Report Card had put me in the same category as Ronald Reagan, I was ready to fight. At the Mo Udall dinner a few weeks ago, I said, 'Look, I'm trying to get recognized. If you've been an astronaut or a vice president they know you but if you're from the South, you're not known.'

"I'm trying to break out of the pack. When I picked up the newspaper yesterday morning, I saw the NAACP broke me out of the Democratic Party and put me in with Ronald Reagan. Now, I can tell you right now, that's moved me ever since. Getting rated with Ronald Reagan is like the fellow who went to the psychiatrist for an inferiority complex. He kept going back to the psychiatrist every week for a year. Then, after a year, the psychiatrist approached him with a smile and said, 'Son, I've got some good news for you.' the young man asked what the good new was. The doctor replied, 'You really are inferior.'

"Unemployment among our young people is a serious problem is a serious problem that's not being handled. Properly targeted, it could be cut by 50 percent. The NAACP was on one side and I was on the other in the early days...back in the 60s. Now, the NAACP, Dr. Hooks, and most of you have turned around on cloture. In fact, you have discovered it can work for you with the Republican-controlled Senate we have in Washington today.

"And Haynesworth, yes. You didn't like that particular nomination and you graded me instead of grading Haynesworth. We differed on that vote, but I brought in your NAACP attorney to testify, just as I brought in the American Civil Liberties Union and other liberal legal scholars. I played fair...trying to air all sides.

"On Tuition Tax Credits, I was amazed when you representative picked me up at the airport two hours ago and said she hoped I 'would oppose Tuition Tax Credits.' It means that my record in generally unknown...because I've stood in the well against Tuition Tax Credits when no one else would in 1978...

"The Department of Education, as I viewed it, stood for equal rights. And we needed the Department of Education, but you graded me wrong twice for voting for it and supporting it.

"Reganomics has put 3 million additional Americans out of work and onto the street looking for jobs. That's not even part of the 379 votes checked by the NAACP. Let's not fuss, though. I can correct that paper, too. I've seen these voting records, and I've served in the vineyards, and I want you to travel with me for just five minutes. You'll understand why I feel so strongly, because they say a person can grow in public office, or he can swell.

"I've seen a lot of them that have swollen I saw my counterpart. Lyndon Johnson. If they'd have given him an exam or a report card as a candidate, you'd have run him out of the country. But he grew and led the way: Civil rights, Title I for the disadvantaged, education, courts and everything else. Coming from our part of the country, no he'd never have your support being a white Southerner. That's where I am.

"But during my term of office...during those four year...not a single life was lost. Not a soul was seriously hurt. That's a crass statement to make, but, as the illustrious dean of field directors who preceded Dr. Gibson in introducing me will attest, I've grown - not swollen - in office.

"Yes. I learned as a Southern Governor it's far cheaper to feed the child than it is to jail the man.

"I say, find that in your report card!

"I'm telling you about the Bob Jones case and the school wanting me to finance discrimination with the public's purse. And I'm saying they're talking about freedom of religion while I'm talking about American equal justice under the law.

"Senator Strom Thurmond, of my state, is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The record is there. He's saying we don't need the Voting Rights Act because there are no examples of discrimination. I called Dr. Gibson and asked  him and about discrimination. He told me, 'You've got it in Greenville.' And then he tells me the courts are seeing it - even Republican judges.

"Senator Thurmond, and my appointee Judge Chapman, didn't see it. So I had to get up there in Washington and tell my own Senior Senator, the President Pro Team of the Senate, 'You're wrong Senator. You know it and I know it.' And I got up there and talked about the fundamental of full citizenship in this country.

"Now, we'll get to the matter of Ronald Reagan and the issues that we have before us. I look and see it was the Voting Rights Act. It's the Bob Jones case. It's legal services that I've been responsible for holding the budget together for. I've them on that. I've been the chairman of the subcommittee responsible. I asked the directors of legal services - they'll tell you about it, if you would ask. All of these issues, in addition to the Fair Insurance Practices Act and the Fair Housing Act, when you come down to it...I was an original co-sponsor.

"And then there's education. Bill Gibson is out here telling you about Title I for the disadvantaged. I know the long-term investment and its value. I knew it 25 years ago as a Governor. We used to have 87 percent of the poor and disadvantaged drop out and never complete high school. Now, with Title I, with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for the Disadvantaged, in the 16 years since it was implemented, we've turned those numbers around. Sixty-seven percent now finished high school. That's the value of the long-term investment in the human infrastructure.

"That's what we're talking about. And it was my amendment on the floor that beat back the Reagan forces, the Budget Committee and

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