You very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. music thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, delegates of this convention, my fellow americans, 16 years ago, i stood before this convention to accept your nomination as the running mate of one of the greatest americans of our time or of any time, dwight d. Eisenhower. [cheers and applause] eight years ago, i had the highest honor of accepting her nomination for president of the United States. [cheers and applause] tonight, i again accept that nomination for president of the United States. [cheers and applause] i have news for you. This time there is a difference. This time, we are going to win. [cheers and applause] were going to win for a number of reasons. First, a personal one. Eisenhower as you know, lies critically ill in the Walter Reed Hospital tonight. I have talked with mrs. Eisenhower on the telephone. She says his heart is with us. She says there is nothing that he lives more for, and it was nothing that would lift him more than for us to win in november, and i say let us win this one for ike. [cheers and applause] we are going to win because this Great Convention has demonstrated as a nation that the Republican Party has the leadership, the platform, and the purpose that america needs. We are going to win because you have nominated as my running mate a statesman of the first rank it will be a great campaigner and one who is fully qualified to undertake the new responsibilities i should give to the Vice President of the United States. [cheers and applause] he is a man who fully shares my conviction and yours that after 40 years one power has gone from these cities and states to the government in washington, d. C. , it is time to have power go back from washington to the states and cities of this country all over america. [cheers and applause] we are going to win because at a time america cries out with unity that this administration has destroyed the Republican Party after a spirited contest for its nomination for president and Vice President stands united before the nation tonight. [cheers and applause] i congratulate governor reagan. [cheers and applause] i congratulate Governor Walker fowler. [cheers and applause] i congratulate governor romney. [cheers and applause] i congratulate all of those who have made the hard fight night have for this nomination fight they have for this nomination, and i know you will find for the great victory over party will win in november because we will be together in the election campaign. [cheers and applause] a party that can unite itself can a night america. My fellow americans, most important, we are going to win because our cause is right. We make history tonight, not for ourselves, but for the choice we make in 1968 will be the future for the world, and the question answer tonight, can american meet this great challenge . For a few moments, let us look at america, let us listen to america, and find the answer to that question. As we look at america, we see cities enveloped in smoke and flames. We hear sirens in the night. We see americans dying on distant battlefields abroad. We see americans hating each other, fighting each other, killing each other at home. As we see and hear these things, millions of americans cry out in english. Did we come all this way for this . Did americans die in normandy and valley forge for this . Listen to the answers to those questions. It is another voice. It is a quiet voice in the tumult of a shouting. It is a great of the majority of americans, the nonshouters. They are not guilty of the crime that plagues the land. They are black, white, young, old, they worked at americas factories, they run americas businesses they serve in, government. They provide most of the soldiers who died to keep us free. They give drive to the spirit of america. They give lift to the American Dream. They give steel to the backbone of america. They are good people. They are decent people. They worked, and they saved, and they pay their taxes, and they care. This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless it is a good place for all of us to live in. [cheers and applause] this, i say to you tonight is the real voice of america. In this year, 1968, this is the message that will broadcast to americans in the world. Let us not forget the fighter folks, america is a great nation, and america is great because the people are great with Winston Churchill saying we have not journeyed all this way across centuries, across oceans, across mountains, across the prairies because we are made of sugar candy. America is in trouble today not because the people have failed, but because the leaders have failed, and american needs the leaders to match the greatness of the people. [cheers and applause] this great group of americans, the forgotten americans and others, know that the great question americans must answer by their votes in november is this, when we should whether we shall continue for four more years the policies of the last five years, and this is their answer, and this is my answer to that when the strongest nation in the world can be tied down for four years in a war in vietnam with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world cannot manage its own economy, when a nation with the greatest tradition in the rule of law is plagued by lawlessness, when a country known for quality of opportunity is torn by violence, and when the president of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration, then it is time for new leadership of the United States of america. [cheers and applause] thank you. My fellow americans, tonight, i accept the challenge and the commitment to provide the new leadership for america, and i ask you to accept it with me. Let us accept this challenge not as a grim duty, but as an exciting adventure in which we are convinced to help a great privileged to help a great nation realize its destiny, and let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth, to see it like it is and tell it like it is. To find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. That is what we will do. [cheers and applause] we had enough for a little promise and little action in the United States of america. [cheers and applause] catch up with more past so tonight, i do not promise the millennium in the morning. I do not promise we can eradicate poverty and end discrimination and eliminate all danger of war. I do promise action. A new policy for peace abroad, a new policy for peace and progress and justice at home. Look at our problems abroad. Do you realize that we face the stark truth that we are worse off in every area of the world tonight than we were when president eisenhower left office eight years ago . That is the record. [applause] there is only one answer to set the record of failure, and that is a complete housecleaning of those responsible for the failures of that record. [applause] the answer is the complete reappraisal of americas policies in every section of the world. We shall begin with vietnam. We all hope in this room that there is a chance the current negotiations may bring an honorable end to the war. We will say nothing in this campaign that may destroy that chance, but if the war is not ended when the People Choose in november, the choice will be clear. Here it is. For four years, this administration has had at its disposal the greatest economic and military advantage that one nation has ever had over another in any war in history. For four years, Americas Fighting men have set a record for courage and sacrifice unsurpassed by our history. For four years, this administration has been seeking an honorable and to the struggle. Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so effectively. If after all this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all the support, there is still no end in sight, then i say that time has come for the American People to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and the politics of the past. That is what we offer you, america. [applause] and i pledge to you tonight that the First Priority Foreign Policy objective of our next administration will be to bring an honorable end to the war in vietnam. [applause] we shall not stop there. We need a policy to prevent more vietnams. All of americas foreign commitments and americas peacekeeping institutions must be appraised. Over the past 25 years, america has provided more than 150 billion in foreign aid to nations abroad. In korea and now again in vietnam, the United States for furnished most of the money and most of the arms to help those people defend themselves. Now, we are a rich country, we are a strong nation, we are a populous nation, but there are 200 million americans and there are 2 billion people that live in the free world. And i say that the time has come for the other nations to bear their fair share of the burdens of defending peace and freedom around the world. [applause] what i call for is not a new isolationism, it is a new internationalism. In which america enlists its allies and friends around the world. Their struggle is as great as ours. Now, to the leaders of the communist world, we say that after an era of confrontation, the time has come for an era of negotiation. Where the worlds superpowers are concerned, there is no acceptable alternative to a peaceful negotiation. Because this will be a period of negotiation, we shall restore the strength of america so that we shall always negotiate from strength and never from weakness. [applause] and as we seek peace through negotiation, what are goals will be made clear. We do not seek domination over any other country. And we believe deeply in our ideas, but we believe they should travel on their own power and not on the power of our arms. We shall never be belligerent very we believe this should be an era of peaceful competition, not only in the productivity of our factories, but in the quality of our ideas. We extend the hand of friendship to all people. To the russian people, to the chinese people, to all the people in the world, and we shall work towards the goal of an open world, open skies, open cities, open hearts, open minds. The next eight years, my friends [applause] this period in which we are entering, i think we will have the greatest opportunity for world peace, but also face the greatest danger of world war of any time of our history. I believe that we must have peace. I believe that we can have peace, but i do not underestimate the difficulty of this task. Because, the art of preserving peace is greater than that of waging war and much more demanding. But i am proud to have served in an administration that ended one war and kept the nation out of other wars for eight years. [applause] america with your help. [applause] and as we commit the new policies for america, let me make one further pledge. For five years, hardly a day has gone by when we have not read or heard a report of the American Flag being spit on, an embassy being stoned or a library being burned or ambassador being insulted. And each incident reduced respect until the ultimate insult inevitably occurred. I say to you tonight, when respect for the United States of america also loved that a fourthrate military power like north korea will seize a freighter at high seas, it is time to restore respect for the United States of america. [applause] thank you very much. My friends, america is a great nation. It is time we started to act like a great nation around the world. It is ironic to note that when we were a small nation, america was respected and the reason was that america stood for something more powerful than military strength or economic well. The American Revolution was a shining example to the world. Today, america is an example to be avoided and not followed. A nation that cant keep the peace at home will not be trusted to keep the peace abroad. A president who is not treated with respect at home will not be respected abroad. A nation that cannot manage its own economy cannot tell others how to manage theirs. If we are to restore respect for america abroad, the place to do it is at home. [applause] my friends, we live in an age of revolution in america and in the world. To find the answers to our problems, let us turn to a revolution. A revolution that will never grow old. The worlds greatest continuing revolution, the American Revolution. The American Revolution was and is dedicated to progress. But our founders recognized that the first requisite of progress is order. There is no quarrel between progress and order because neither can exist without the other. So let us have order in america, not that which suppresses and discourages change, but the order that guarantees the right to dissent and the basis for peaceful change. Tonight, it is time for some honest talk about the problem of order in the United States. Let us always respect, as i do, our courts and those who serve on them, but let us also recognize that some of our courts and their decisions have gone too far in weakening the peace forces against a criminal forces in this country. [cheers and applause] but those who have the responsibility to enforce our laws and our judges who have the responsibility to interpret them, the dedicated to the great principles of civil rights, but let them also recognize that the first of all right of every american is to be free from domestic violence, and that right must be guaranteed in this country. [cheers and applause] if we are to restore order, there is one place we are going to begin. We are going to have a new attorney general of the United States of america. [cheers and applause] i pledge to, that our new attorneygeneral will be directed by the president of United States to launch a war against organized crime in this country. [cheers and applause] i pledge to you that our new attorney general will be directed active and belligerent against the loan sharks and the number of people who rob the urban rack enter in our cities. I pledge to that. The new attorney general will open a new front against the filth peddlers and the narcotics peddlers that are corrupting the lives of the children of this country. Because my friends, let this message come through clear from what i say tonight time is running out for the merchants of crime and corruption in american society. The wave of crime is not going to be the wave of the future in the United States of america we america. [cheers and applause] we shall reestablish freedom from fear in america so that america can take the lead in reestablishing freedom from fear in the world. And to those who say that law and order is a code word for racism, here is the reply. Our goal is justice. Justice for every american. If we are to have respect for law in america, we must have laws that deserve respect. But just as we cannot have progress without order, we cannot have order without progress. And so as we commit to order tonight, let us commit to progress. This brings us to the clearest choice among the great issues of this campaign. For the past five years, we have been valued by Government Programs for the unemployed, programs for the cities, programs for the poor, and reaps from these programs and ugly harvest of violence and failure. Our opponents will be offering more of the same. Government jobs, Government Housing, government welfare. I say it time to quit touring billions of dollars into programs that have failed in the United States of america. [cheers and applause] to put it bluntly, it is time to take a new roads to progress. Again, we turn to the American Revolution for our answer. , poverty did not begin five years ago in this country. Theres more wealth in america today, more shared than any nation in the world. We are a great nation and we must never forget how we became great. America is a great nation today, not because of what government did for people, but because of what people it for themselves over 190 years. [cheers and applause] so it is time to apply the lessons of the American Revolution. Let us increase the wealth of america so we can provide more generously for the aging and the needy and all those who cannot help themselves. But for those who can help themselves, what we need are not more millions on welfare rolls, but on payrolls in the United States of america. Instead of government jobs and Government Housing and government wealth there, let government use its tax and credits policies to enlist in this great cause, ever developed in the history of man, americas private enterprise. The millions of americans and volunteer organizations who will bring a dedication to this task that no amount of money can never buy, and let us build bridges, my friend. Build bridges across that gulf that separates black america from white america. [cheers and applause] black america, no more than white america, do not want more Government Programs that perpetuate your dependency. They do not want to be a colony in a nation. They want the pride and selfrespect and dignity that can only, come with an equal chance to own their own homes, businesses, and be what with american workers. Have a piece of the action of private enterprise. [cheers and applause] and i pledge to you tonight that we shall have new programs which will provide that a chance. We made great history tonight. We do not fire a shot heard around the world, but we shall like the lamp of hope in millions of homes across this land in which there is no hope today. And that great light, shining out from america will become a beacon of hope to those who seek freedom and opportunity. My fellow americans, i believe that historians will recall that 1968 marked the beginning of the american generation in world history. Just to be alive in america, just to be alive at this time is an experience that is unparalleled in history. Here is where the action is. Think 32 years from now, most of americans living today will celebrate a new year that comes once in a thousand years. Eight years from now, in the second term of the next president , we will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the American Revolution. And by our decision in this election, we will determine what kind of nation america will be on its 200th birthday. We will determine what kind of a world america will live in in the year 2000. This is the kind of day i see for america on that glorias fourth, eight years from now. I see a day when americans are once again proud of their flag. When once again, at home and abroad, it is honored as the worlds symbol of justice. I see a day when the president of the United States is respected in his office is honored because it is worthy of respect and honor. I see a day when every child in this land, regardless of his background, has a chance for the best education that our wisdom and schools can provide and an equal chance to go just as high as his talents will take him. I see a day of when life in Rural America attracts people to the country rather than driving them away. I see a day when we can look back on massive brick breakthroughs in solving pollution that is choking our nation. I see a day when our Senior Citizens and millions of others can plan for the future with the assurance that their government is not going to rob them of their savings by destroying the value of their dollar. [cheers and applause] i see a day when we will again have freedom from fear in america and freedom from fear in the world. I see a day when our nation is at peace and the world is at peace with everyone on earth, those who hope, of those who aspire, my fellow americans, this is because i asked you to because i ask you to vote for. This is the cause i asked you to work for. This is the cause i ask you to commit to, not just for victory in november but beyond that into a new administration because the time when one man or a few leaders could save america is gone. We need, tonight, nothing less than the total commitment and total mobilization of the American People if we are to succeed. Government can pass laws, but respect for law can only come from people who take their law into their hearts and minds and not into their hands. [applause] government can provide opportunity, but opportunity Means Nothing unless people are prepared to seize it. A president can ask for reconciliation, but reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people. Tonight, as we make this commitment, let us look into our hearts, and let us look down, into the faces of our children. Is there anything in the world that should stand in their way . None of the old hatreds mean anything when you look down into the faces of the children. Their faces at our hope and our love and our coverage. Tonight, i see the face of a child. He lives in a great city, he is black, or he is white, he is mexican, italian, polish, none of that matters. He is an american child. That child, in that great city is more important than any politicians promise. He is america. He is a poet, a scientist, a great teacher, a proud craftsman. He is everything that we ever hope to be and in everything we dare to dream to be. He sleeps the sleep of childhood and dreams the dream of a child. And yet, when he awakens, he awakens to a living nightmare of poverty, neglect, and despair. He fails in school. He ends up on welfare. For him, the american system is one that feeds his stomach and starves his soul. It breaks his heart. In the end, it may take his life in some distant battlefield. To millions of children in this land, this is their future. This is only part of what i see in america. I see another child, tonight. He hears the train go by. He dreams of faraway places where he would like to go. It seems like an impossible dream. But he is helped on his journey through life. A father who had to go to work before it finished the six great sacrificed everything he had so that his sons could go to college. A gentle quaker mother, with a passionate concern for peace, quietly wept when he went to war, but she understood why he had to go. A great teacher, the remarkable football coach, an inspirational minister who encouraged him on his way. A courageous wife and loyal children stood by him in victory and also in defeat. And in his chosen profession of politics, 1st there were scores, then hundreds, then thousands, and finally millions that work for his success. And tonight, he stands before you, nominated for president of the United States of america. [applause] you can see why i believe in the people and the American Dream. For most of us, the American Revolution has been won. The American Dream has come true. What i ask you to do tonight is to help me make that dream come true for millions when it was an impossible dream today. [applause] 108 years ago, the newly elected president of the United States, abraham lincoln, left springfield illinois, never to return again. He spoke to his friends gathered at the railroad station to listen to his words. Today i leave, to take on a task in washington. The great god that helped him must tell me. Without the great assistance, i will surely fail. With it, i cannot fail. Abraham lincoln lost his life, but he did not fail. The next president of the United States will face challenges which, in some ways, will be greater than those of washington or lincoln. For the first time in our nations history, an american president will face not only the problem of restoring peace abroad, but restoring peace at home. Without gods help and your help, which will surely fail. But with gods help and your help, we shall surely succeed. My fellow americans, the long, dark night for america is about to end. The time has come for us to leave the valley of despair and climb the mountain so that we may see the glory of the dawn, a new day for america in a new dawn for peace and freedom in the world. [applause] music
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