05Barbara Charline Jordan - 1976 DNC Keynote Address

<p style="font-size:16px;color:#333333;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;hyphens:auto" data-flag="normal">Thank you ladies and gentlemen for a very warm reception.<br /><br /><br />It was one hundred and forty-four years ago that members of the Democratic Party first met in convention to select a Presidential candidate. Since that time, Democrats have continued to convene once every four years and draft a party platform and nominate a Presidential candidate. And our meeting this week is a continuation of that tradition. But there is something different about tonight. There is something special about tonight. What is different? What is special?<br /><br />I, Barbara Jordan, am a keynote speaker.<br /><br />When -- A lot of years passed since 1832, and during that time it would have been most unusual for any national political party to ask a Barbara Jordan to deliver a keynote address. But tonight, here I am. And I feel -- I feel that notwithstand...