Video: 'MT3264, MT3265, and MT3266 George Bush Accepts the GOP Presidential Nomination - 02 August 1992'

(Thursday, August 20, 1992 evening CDT; during the 1992 Republican National Convention) — President George H.W. Bush of Texas accepted the Republican party’s nomination for a second term tonight at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, promising new, across-the-board tax cuts next year and pledging to control government spending. Continue reading President George H.W. Bush accepts Republican nomination for second term in Houston 30 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 20 1992) →

Video: 'Lessons from the 1912 Republican Convention: Birth of the Modern Primary | Retro Report'

(Wednesday, August 7, 1912, nearly 7:00 p.m. CST) — Delegates to the 1912 Progressive National Convention, meeting tonight at Chicago Coliseum in Chicago, nominated former President Theodore Roosevelt of New York for President of the United States by acclamation. Continue reading Progressives nominate Theodore Roosevelt for third term as President of the United States 110 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 7 1912) →

Video: 'SYND 6-8-72 MCGOVERN NOMINATES SHRIVER'

(Saturday, August 5, 1972, early evening EDT) — Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, a U.S. Senator from South Dakota, chose Sargent Shriver as his new vice presidential running mate today after Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine had rejected his invitation to join the ticket. Continue reading Sargent Shriver chosen as George McGovern’s new running mate on Democratic presidential ticket 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 5 1972) →

Video: 'Television & the Presidency Part 9' (Eagleton issue at 1:23)

(Monday, July 31, 1972, 9:45 p.m. EDT; during the 1972 United States presidential election campaign) — Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, withdrew from the national ticket with George McGovern tonight following disclosures that Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment. Continue reading Thomas Eagleton withdraws from Democratic presidential ticket 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 31 1972) →

Video: '1952 Adlai Stevenson Democratic Convention Acceptance Speech'

(Saturday, July 26, 1952, 2:13 a.m. CDT; during the 1952 Democratic National Convention) — Governor Adlai Stevenson II of Illinois accepted the Democratic presidential nomination early this morning at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago with a pledge to “talk sense to the American people.” Continue reading Adlai Stevenson accepts Democratic presidential nomination in Chicago 70 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 26 1952) →

Audio: 'ABC Evening News 1972 VP Drama' (July 28, 1972)

(Tuesday, July 25, 1972, morning CDT; during the 1972 United States presidential election campaign) — Democratic vice presidential nominee Thomas Eagleton said today that he was hospitalized three times between 1960 and 1966 for “nervous exhaustion and fatigue” and that he had undergone psychiatric treatment, including electric shock therapy, for “depression” on two of the three occasions. Continue reading Democratic vice presidential nominee Thomas Eagleton reveals he had received electrical shock therapy twice 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 25 1972) →

Video: '25 de julio de 1952'

(Friday, July 25, 1952) — Puerto Rico graduated today from the status of a colonial possession to that of a self-governing “free commonwealth” closely associated with the United States. Continue reading Puerto Rico becomes self-governing commonwealth of United States 70 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 25 1952) →

Video: 'American President #8: Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)'

(Thursday, July 24, 1862, 2:00 a.m. local time) — Martin Van Buren, the 8th president of the United States from 1837 to 1841 and the first to have been born after the American Revolution, died this morning of bronchial asthma and heart failure at his Lindenwald estate in Kinderhook, New York, the town where he was born in 1782. Van Buren was 79. Continue reading Former U.S. President Martin Van Buren, 79, dies in Kinderhook, New York 160 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 24 1862) →

Video: 'Democratic National Convention 1992 BILL CLINTON FULL SPEECH'

(Thursday, July 16, 1992, 10:25 p.m. EDT; during the 1992 Democratic National Convention) — Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas accepted the Democratic presidential nomination tonight at Madison Square Garden in New York City with a frontal assault on President George H.W. Bush, urging American voters to add the Republican incumbent to the employment lines because he hadn’t “changed a thing — except from bad to worse.” Continue reading Bill Clinton accepts Democratic presidential nomination in New York 30 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 16 1992) →