Will are next Democratic president say the same things Nixon [View All]

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said in his acceptance speech in 1968? Geez, our new Democratic president could give almost the same speech.

Acceptance Speech, Delivered before the Republican National Convention,

August 8, 1968

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America's in trouble today not because her people have failed, but because her leaders have failed. And what American needs are leaders to match the greatness of her people

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And 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: Whether we shall continue for four more years the policies of the last five years.

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And this is their answer, and this is my answer to that question: When the strongest nation in the world ca???? own for four years in a war in Vietnam (substitue IRAQ) with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, when a nation has been known for a century for equality of opportunity is torn by unprecedented racial 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's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

Thank you. My fellow Americans, tonight I accept the challenge and the commitment to provide that new leadership for America and I ask you to accept it with me. . . .

We've had enough of big promises and little action. The time has come for an honest government in the United States of America.

And so tonight I do not promise the millennium in the morning. I don't promise that we can eradicate poverty and end discrimination and eliminate all danger of wars in the space of four or even eight years. But 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's the record.

And there is only one answer to such a record of failure, and that is the complete house cleaning of those responsible for the failures and that record.


Go here for full speech: http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/HIUS316/mbase/docs/nixon.html