Video: 'Ronald Reagan Nomination Acceptance | Republican Convention 1984'

(Thursday, August 23, 1984, 9:11 p.m. CDT) — U.S. President Ronald Reagan, accepting the nomination for a second term at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, appealed tonight for the party’s help in finishing the ”unfinished agenda” of a conservative reformation of the Government.

Reagan told the delegates to the Republican National Convention that the contest between himself and Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic Presidential nominee, presented the nation’s voters “with the clearest political choice of half a century.”

((Thursday, August 23, 1984, evening CDT) — U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush accepted the nomination for a second term tonight at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, describing the 1984 election as a historic dividing line in American politics (click here to watch a video of the speech).

By winning election to a second term, the Vice President said in his acceptance speech, he and President Ronald Reagan would establish the Republicans as “the party of the future.”

(Wednesday, August 22, 1984) — President Ronald Reagan was unanimously nominated for a second term in Dallas tonight in an action that touched off the first sustained, deeply enthusiastic demonstrations of the 1984 Republican National Convention (click here for video of today’s convention). Continue reading Republicans nominate Reagan and Bush for second terms 30 years ago tonight (Aug 22 1984) →