purpose, but constantly innovating adapting to new realities: RooseveIt's alpha bet programs; Truman's nato and the gi Bill of Rights Kennedy,'s intelligent tax incentives and the Alliance for Progress; Johnson's civil rights Carters human rights and the nearly miraculous Camp David Peace Accord Democrats did it Democrats did it-and democrats can do it again. We can build a future that deals with our def icit. Remember this, that 50 years of progress under our principles never cost us what the last four years of stagnation have. And, we can deal with the deficit intelligently by shared sacrif ice, with all parts of the nations family contributing, building partnerships w ith the private sector, providing a sound defense without depriv ing ourse lves of what we need to feed our children and care for our people We can have a future that provides for all the young of the present by marrying common sense and compassion. We know we can, because we did it for nearly 50 years before 1980 And we can do it again If we do not forget. If we do not forget that this entire nation has prof ited by these progressive principles. that they he led lift up generations to iddle clas chance to work to go to college, to family, to own a house to be secure in our old age and, before that, to reach heights that our own parents would not have dared dream of That struggle to live with dign ity is the real story of the shin ing city. And it 's a story lad ies and gentlemen that i didnt read in a book or learn in a classroom I saw it and lived it. Like many of you. i watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. i saw him once litera lly bleed from the bottoms of his feet a man who came here uneducated alone unable to speak the language who taught me all i needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. I learned about our kind of democracy from my father. learned about our obligation to each other from him and from my mother. They asked only for a chance to work and to make the world better for their children and they asked to be protected in those moments when they would not be able to protect themselves. This nation and this nation 's government did that for them And that they were able to build a family and live in dignity and see one of their children go from behind the ir little grocery store in So uth Jamaica on the other side of the tracks where he was born to occupy the hig hest seat in the greatest state of the greatest nation in the only world we know, is an neff ably beautif ul tribute to the democratic process And, ladies and gentlemen, on January 20, 1985, it will happen again. only on a much, much grander scale. We will have a new president of the United States, a Democrat born not to the blood of kings but to the blood of pioneers and immigrants. And we will have America's first woman vice president the child of immigrants andpurpose, but constantly innovating, adapting to new realities: Roosevelt's alphabet programs; Truman's NATO and the GI Bill of Rights; Kennedy's intelligent tax incentives and the Alliance for Progress; Johnson's civil rights; Carter's human rights and the nearly miraculous Camp David Peace Accord. Democrats did it, Democrats did it - and Democrats can do it again. We can build a future that deals with our deficit. Remember this, that 50 years of progress under our principles never cost us what the last four years of stagnation have. And, we can deal with the deficit intelligently, by shared sacrifice, with all parts of the nation's family contributing, building partnerships with the private sector, providing a sound defense without depriving ourselves of what we need to feed our children and care for our people. We can have a future that provides for all the young of the present, by marrying common sense and compassion. We know we can, because we did it for nearly 50 years before 1980. And we can do it again. If we do not forget. If we do not forget that this entire nation has profited by these progressive principles. That they helped lif t up generations to the middle class and higher: gave us a chance to work, to go to college, to raise a family, to own a house, to be secure in our old age and, before that, to reach heights that our own parents would not have dared dream of . That struggle to live with dignity is the real story of the shining city. And it's a story, ladies and gentlemen, that I didn't read in a book, or learn in a classroom. I saw it, and lived it. Like many of you. I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed f rom the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. I learned about our kind of democracy f rom my father. And, I learned about our obligation to each other f rom him and f rom my mother. They asked only for a chance to work and to make the world better for their children and they asked to be protected in those moments when they would not be able to protect themselves. This nation and this nation's government did that for them. And that they were able to build a family and live in dignity and see one of their children go f rom behind their little grocery store in South Jamaica on the other side of the tracks where he was born, to occupy the highest seat in the greatest state of the greatest nation in the only world we know, is an ineffably beautiful tribute to the democratic process. And, ladies and gentlemen, on January 20, 1985, it will happen again. Only on a much, much grander scale. We will have a new president of the United States, a Democrat born not to the blood of kings but to the blood of pioneers and immigrants. And we will have America's first woman vice president, the child of immigrants, and