ELECTION 92
Former foes rally around Clinton
DEMOCRATIC
COMVEPON
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two
fierce critics of Bill Clinton
as Democratic primary rivals
offerod their praise and their
help Wednesday In unity
speeches to tho convention
ratifying the Arkansas gover
nor as the party s presidential nominee.
"Never under George Bush — ooxt year under
Bill Clinton,” Paul Tsongas said after listing a
number of Issues ho said were critical to changing
the nation's course, economic growth and envi
ronmental protection among them.
"I saw his strength as he weathered the
storms." Nobroska Sen. Bob Kerrey said of Clin
ton — the man he once said would be oponed up
"like a soft peanut" by Republicans in the fall.
As the party’s rally-around-Clirtlon convention
grew more harmonious by the minute. Kerrey
talked of Clinton as a man of depth.
«k"I can tell you that Bill Clinton is genuine,"
Kerrey told the delegates. "He Is committed to
earning the respect and the trust of the American
poople and he has a real vision for America."
The wild card of the night was former Califor
nia Gov. Jerry Brown, the only remaining primary
rival who has not endorsed Clinton.
Brown canceled his events and stayed in his
hotel working on his convention speech Aides
said they expected him to pledge to work for a
Democratic victory in November.
The unity speeches by Clinton's one-time rivals
closed the circle on u primary season that seemed
nasty even by Democratic Party standards, per
haps because the most bitter exchanges were
bunched early — when the others tried to slop
Clinton from pulling away.
In New Hampshire, Tsongas and Clinton were
the soulmates ol economic specificity. But when
they finished first and second and become the
frontrunners, Clinton labeled the former Massa
chusetts senator a disciple of Reaganomics. Tson
gas' retort: That Clinton wanted to he ail things to
all poople — a "pander boar.”
But Wednesday, Greek-American Tsongas
spoke poignantly of his America's immigrant her
itage — “To be American is to have the blood of
courageous forebears" — and called Clinton the
best hope for protecting tho rights of Americans.
1 will fight as hard as I know,
with every ounce of my puny
body, and every minute of my
Inexhaustible tvflf to make
certain that Bill Clinton Is
elected the next president of
the United States of America.’
Sen Bob Kerrey,
Nebraska
"With reverence for that mission, lot us unite,"
Tsongas said in his text. "Lot us choose the path
of generational responsibility and then lot us
work to eloct Hill Clinton and Al Com to the
White House."
In much the sumo vein. Kerrey's convention
•pooch was a giant leap from his primary barbs,
when he suggested he did not believe Clinton's
explanation of his Vietnam draft status and suit)
Republicans would use the Issue to crush Clin
ton.
"With President Hill Clinton wo can and will
gain the confidence to triumph over our worst ad
versaries and doubts," Kerrey said in his unitv
speech. “I will fight as hard as I know, with every
ounce of my puny body, and every minute of my
inexhaustible will lo make certain that Hill Clin
ton is elected the next president of the United
States of America."
Kerrey, Tsongas and Brown were addressing
the convention a day after another primary rival,
Iowa Sen. Tom Markin, offered spirited praise of
Clinton and his pledge to campaign In the fall
"I may bo out of the liattie for myself, but I'm
not out of the fight to put u Democrat in the White
House In said Harkin. who lias proven a
dogged campaigner for Clinton since he quit the
race in March,
When the first Now Hampshire snows full in
late 1991, there was a sixth candidate in the field:
Virginia Gov. L Douglas Wilder He dropped out
before the first votes wore cast, and endorsed
Clinton on Tuesday Wilder was scheduled to ad
dress the convention briefly Thursday.
18 Oregon
delegates to
stiff Clinton
NEW YORK (AP) — Eighteen
Oregon delegates for Jerry
Brown said Wednesday they
would vote against Dill Clinton
during the Democratic National
Convention roll call because
liberal concerns are being shut
out.
"They are yupplfylng and
Southernizing our Democratic
Party," said Scott Spaan of
Portland, who ran tho Brown
campaign in Oregon.
“They don't care if now peo
ple come into the party," he
said. “We are the peace activ
ists, the environmentalists, the
people who care about civil
rights and hate crimes, and
they have told us they don't
need us.”
Relations between the former
California governor and Arkan
sas' governor have boon
strained. Clinton is expected to
receivo the presidential nomi
nation. Democratic National
Chairman Ronald H. Brown
said ho hoped Brown would
stress party harmony in his re
marks.
Spaan, 34, a freelance film
maker who voted for Jesse Jack
son in said the Brown
supporters object to Clinton's
attempts to move the Democrat
ic Party toward tho political
center.
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