Video: 'Aug. 27, 1964: LBJ's DNC Acceptance Speech'

(Thursday, August 27, 1964, evening EDT) — U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson accepted the nomination for a term of his own by the Democratic Party tonight at the 1964 Democratic National Convention with a pledge of “answers, not retreats” — “unity, not division” — “hope, not fear or smear” (click here to watch a clip from “American Experience: LBJ” at 1:40:46).