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Bill Bradley Announces for President
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Edited | Chronicler May 13, 2006 07:37am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, September 8, 1999 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Less than a mile from where I'm standing, near the banks of the Mississippi River, there once stood the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. It was there for a hundred years. In its heyday, it employed 4,000 people and turned out thousands of tons of glass a year. It seemed that just about everybody in town worked for what we called PPG. We didn't grow corn or wheat here in Crystal City; we made glass.
Today, I want to be as clear as that glass about who I am and why I am running for President of the United States.
I have come back to my hometown because for me, this is where the world of possibility and hope all began, a world I want to open for all Americans.
I was raised here in Crystal City - I’m a small-town boy. I had a paper route, and every afternoon I delivered copies of the Daily News Democrat to the doorsteps of my neighbors. I could tell the time of day or night by the trains that passed near our home.
As a boy, I used to explore the bluffs to the south of town, looking for fossils and arrowheads. When I was a little older, my grandfather and I sometimes took a .22 and went down to the river and shot at logs floating by. We watched the great river ebb and flow. We felt its incredible force and marveled at its beauty. Later, when the river flooded the town's main intersection under six feet of muddy water, we also saw its destructive power... |
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