Video: 'Hubert Humphrey addressed delegates at the 1968 DNC'

(Thursday, August 29, 1968, evening CDT; during the 1968 Democratic National Convention) — Vice President Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota accepted the Democratic presidential nomination tonight at Chicago’s International Amphitheatre with a promise that on the issue of Vietnam “the policies of tomorrow need not be limited by the policies of yesterday.”

Humphrey had won the nomination the previous evening, Aug. 28, 1968, defeating Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota 1759.25 to 601 votes on the first ballot.

Humphrey had picked Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine to be his running mate and Muskie was officially nominated earlier tonight on the first ballot.

Video: 'Humphrey's 1968 DNC Acceptance Speech'

Video: 'Television & the Presidency Part 6' (Aug. 26-29, 1968, at 6:16)

Video: 'Television & the Presidency Part 7' (Aug. 26-29, 1968, at 0:00)

Video: 'Nixon American experience' (Aug. 26-29, 1968, at 1:04:27)

Video: 'Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War - Frontline America [8/13]' (Aug. 26-29, 1968, at 21:22)

Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - Homefront USA [10/11]' (Aug. 26-29, 1968, at 23:51)

The Humphrey-Muskie ticket would oppose the Republican ticket of former Vice President Richard Nixon of New York and Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland (nominated earlier in August 1968) in the United States presidential election, 1968.