Video: 'Nixon's 1968 RNC Acceptance Speech'

(Thursday, August 8, 1968, 11:53 p.m. EDT; during the 1968 Republican National Convention) — Former Vice President Richard Nixon of New York accepted the Republican presidential nomination tonight at Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida, with a pledge to lead the nation to “the next American frontier.”

Nixon had won the nomination in the early morning hours of the day, defeating New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller 692 to 277 votes (before switches) on the first ballot.

Video: 'Nixon American experience' (Aug. 8, 1968 at 1:02:45)

Nixon had picked Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew to be his running mate and Agnew was officially nominated earlier tonight 1119-186 over Michigan Governor Mitt Romney on the first ballot.

The Nixon-Agnew ticket would oppose the Democratic ticket of Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Senator Edmund Muskie (nominated later in August 1968) in the United States presidential election, 1968.