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(Madison Square Garden: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Dallas: Bill Lagattuta) Decision by undeclared candidate Ross Perot to quit the race featured; scenes shown from Dallas. [PEROT - says it would be disruptive to continue.] [Perot campaign manager Hamilton JORDAN, former Perot campaign co-manager Ed ROLLINS - comment.] The Perot movement reviewed. [PEROT - talks about the government.] [Today, PEROT - comments on the two candidates; says he can't win in November.] [On July 2, PEROT - says he will do what the people want.] The background to today's decision discussed.
(Madison Square Garden: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Dallas: Scott Pelley) Reaction of Perot's volunteers featured; scenes shown from Dallas. [Campaign chairman Tom LUCE - breaks down.] [New York Perot campaign manager Matthew LIFFLANDER - calls it a political con job.] [Three SUPPORTERS, two telephone VOLUNTEERS - comment.] [On May 27, 1992, PEROT - says he will do what he says will do.]
(Madison Square Garden: Dan Rather) Perot's decision analyzed. [Political analyst Kevin PHILLIPS - explains how President Bush and Governor Bill Clinton will be helped and hurt by Perot's decision; predicts Perot may make some links to the Democrats.]
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(Madison Square Garden: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Convention floor: Bill Plante) The impact of the pullout by undeclared candidate Ross Perot on the campaign of Governor Bill Clinton featured; scenes shown of Clinton jogging. [CLINTON - explains what he told Perot in a telephone call.] [Clinton strategist James CARVILLE, Democratic analyst Bob BECKEL, Republican analyst Doug BAILEY - offer views on who will be helped by Perot's withdrawal.] CBS News poll findings on a three- and two-man race outlined. [Democratic strategist Tad DEVINE, Clinton pollster Stan GREENBERG - comment.] The current status of Clinton's oft-rewritten speech for tonight noted.
(Madison Square Garden: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Randall Pinkston) Reaction of President Bush to Perot's withdrawal featured. [On telephone from Pinedale, Wyoming, BUSH - describes his telephone call to Perot.] [Republican National Committee Rich BOND - says the Democrats will be hurt.] Possibility that Secretary of State James Baker will try to get the campaign back on track noted.
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(Madison Square Garden: Dan Rather) Update given on the health of Pope John Paul II after his colon surgery.
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(Madison Square Garden: Dan Rather) Report that the leader of Serbian forces in Bosnia has order a cease-fire noted; map shown.
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(Madison Square Garden: Dan Rather) Increase in applications for mortgages by homeowners trying to refinance reported.
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(Madison Square Garden: Dan Rather) Report that radiation from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, WA, has contaminated seafood and drinking water outlined; scenes shown of the plant.
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(Madison Square Garden: Dan Rather) Release of Rodney King from jail, where he had been held on drunk driving charges, reported; scenes shown from Orange County, California.
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(Madison Square Garden: Dan Rather) Protest against Time Warner, Incorporated, for the rap song "Cop Killer" that celebrates violence against police reported; scenes shown from Beverly Hills, California, site of the company's annual meeting.
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(Madison Square Garden: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Convention floor: Richard Threlkeld) Presidential candidate Governor Bill Clinton, the politician, examined; scenes shown. [Johns Hopkins University Michael MANDELBAUM - describes Clinton's capacity for friendship.] [Arkansas Republican Party co-chairman Sheffield NELSON - criticizes Clinton.] [Friend David LEOPOULOS - responds.] ["Arkansas Democrat-Gazette" Paul GREENBERG - talks about the "slick Willie" title he coined.] [Clinton aide Betsy WRIGHT - praises him.]
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(Madison Square Garden: Dan Rather) The men, the speeches and the magic of acceptance speeches examined; scenes shown of addresses by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan; Governor Bill Clinton's speech at the '88 convention and convention speeches of Jesse Jackson and Governor Mario Cuomo. ["Newsweek" senior editor Joe KLEIN - lays out the background to Clinton's speech at a moment of high political drama.]
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