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| | 1996 Democratic National Convention Diary |
 | | I sit with a Democratic party pol and a major contributor awhile, and inquire what the minimum level of contribution must be to "get the attention" of the President and cabinet members, "1,000, 5,000?" I ask. |
 | | Don Fowler, chair of the Democratic party appears on-stage with the family of Ron Brown, Secretary of Commerce recently killed in a plane crash; three extremely handsome African-Americans: a young man, his son I assume, a daughter, and his stunningly beautiful wife, Alma. |
 | | The crowd snaps to attention and during the sustained and moving applause, memory retrieves the convention I watched on television as a boy, when the all-white Mississippi delegation was challenged by black civil rights workers. |
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