Video: 'Acceptance Speech | President George H.W. Bush | 1988 Republican National Convention'

(Thursday, August 18, 1988, scheduled for 8:50 p.m. CDT; during the 1988 Republican National Convention) — Vice President George H.W. Bush accepted the Republican presidential nomination tonight at Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, with a pledge not raise taxes (“read my lips: no new taxes”) and praise for America’s clubs and volunteer organizations (“thousand points of light”).

Bush had won the nomination the previous evening, August 17, 1988, winning the votes of all 2,277 convention delegates.

Bush had picked Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana to be his running mate and Quayle was officially nominated earlier tonight by voice vote, rather than a roll call.

The Bush-Quayle ticket would oppose the Democratic ticket of Governor Michael Dukakis and Senator Lloyd Bentsen (nominated in July 1988) in the United States presidential election, 1988.