Video: '2004 Democratic National Convention - John Kerry's Speech (7/29/04)'

(Thursday, July 29, 1984, Kerry began speaking at 10:09 p.m., he accepted the nomination at 10:22 p.m. EDT) — U.S. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts accepted the nomination for President of the United States tonight at the 2004 Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, pledging to “restore trust and credibility to the White House.”

Kerry accused President George W. Bush of misleading the nation into the Iraq War and pursuing policies that he described as a threat to the environment, the economy and the Constitution.

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Kerry was nominated by defeating Dennis Kucinich 4,253 to 43 votes.

In the days before the convention started, the other candidates withdrew, freed their delegates and officially endorsed Kerry.

U.S. Senator John Edwards of North Carolina was nominated by acclamation and accepted his party’s nomination for vice president the previous evening.

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The convention was also famous because it included the keynote speech of Barack Obama (on July 27, 2004), who would go on to be elected president four years later.

The Kerry-Edwards ticket would challenge the GOP ticket of U.S. President George W. Bush of Texas and Vice President Dick Cheney of Wyoming, both nominated for second terms in Sept. 2004, in the 2004 general election.