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...picked up the endorsement of onetime chief rival Paul Tsongas, who earlier had ensured that there will be no noisy platform fight by refusing to help bring amendments proposed by Jerry Brown to the floor (a few Tsongas amendments will be voted down quietly). New York Governor Mario Cuomo, after much wooing, agreed to make the nominating speech for Clinton. That prompted Vice President Quayle to gibe that Cuomo will need extra time to retract some of the nasty things he has said about the Arkansan. Jesse Jackson, grumbling as usual, nonetheless accepted a speech assignment and was expected...
...Cuomo compared the economy to a ship in which everyone except the captain, Bush, knows the vessel is headed for the rocks...
...Bush] seems to think that the ship will be saved by imperceptible undercurrents, directed by the invisible hand of some cyclical economic god, that will gradually move the ship so that at the last moment it will miraculously glide past the rocks to safer shores," Cuomo said...
...Bill Clinton believes that the closest thing to a panacea that we have is described by a simple four-letter word: work," Cuomo said. "He has been living that truth all his life...
...delegates' euphoria following Cuomo's speech was matched, however, by the nominee's untraditional appearance on the floor after his nomination...