Video: '1964 Barry Goldwater GOP Convention Acceptance Speech'

(Thursday, July 16, 1964, shortly after 7:00 p.m. PDT) — U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona accepted the presidential nomination tonight at the 1964 Republican National Convention held at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California, declaring that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice” and “moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

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Goldwater secured the nomination by receiving 883 delegate votes on the first ballot.

His primary opponent, Governor William Scranton of Pennsylvania, garnered 214 votes, while the remaining candidates collectively received 211 votes.

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Other notable candidates and their respective delegate counts were Nelson Rockefeller (114), George Romney (41), Margaret Chase Smith (27), Walter Judd (22), Hiram Fong (5), and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (2).

The convention was marked by tension-filled contests, as Goldwater’s conservatives clashed openly with Rockefeller’s moderates.

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Goldwater was considered the “conservatives’ leading spokesman,” which led to friction with the moderates and liberals of the Republican Party.

When Rockefeller attempted to deliver a speech, he was booed by the convention’s conservative delegates, who viewed him as a member of the “eastern liberal establishment.”

Video: '1964 William Miller GOP Convention Vice President Acceptance Speech'

William E. Miller, a representative from Western New York who had served as chairman of the Republican National Committee since 1961, was unanimously nominated as vice president on a roll call vote.

The Goldwater-Miller ticket would oppose the Democratic ticket of President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, who would be nominated in August, in the 1964 general election.