Video: '1976 Jimmy Carter Democratic Convention Acceptance Speech'

(Thursday, July 15, 1976, 10:38-11:16 p.m. EDT) — Former Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia, who easily won the nomination on the first ballot the previous night, accepted the Democratic presidential nomination tonight at the party’s convention meeting at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Carter addressed the convention after his running mate, Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota, accepted the party’s vice presidential nomination.

Carter defeated Mo Udall 2,238.5 to 329.5 on the first ballot. He then chose Mondale, a liberal and a protégé of Hubert Humphrey, as his running mate.

Video: '1976 Walter Mondale Democratic Convention Vice President Acceptance Speech'

Mondale was put over the top at roll call by the convention’s second youngest delegate Cathy Clardy who cast the delegate votes for the State of Minnesota, defeating U.S. House Speaker Carl Albert 2,817 to 36 votes.

The Carter-Mondale ticket would oppose the Republican ticket of President Gerald Ford and Senator Bob Dole (nominated in Aug. 1976) in the 1976 United States presidential election.