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George H.W. Bush: “I'd be glad to talk about it. Our party has room for plenty of diversity in it. The Democrats' convention wouldn't even…”

On the recordOctober 22, 1992
I'd be glad to talk about it. Our party has room for plenty of diversity in it. The Democrats' convention wouldn't even let somebody speak if they differed on that very sensitive question of abortion. The Governor of Pennsylvania wasn't even allowed to have any air time. And so I'll be glad to talk about it. Our convention was accused by the Governor of New York, the illustrious Mario Cuomo, right in the front page of the New York Post, of being like the Nazis. His cochairman called me a racist, and you can condone this, as a professor? I'm sorry. I don't think that's right. We have diversity. I don't agree with everything in the platform, and I don't agree with every spokesman at our convention. So we've got a large----
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George H.W. Bush
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