Presidential Acceptance Speeches: Top Lines and Phrases from Conventions Since 1960
This summer, C-SPAN is bringing you live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of both the Republican and Democratic party conventions … featuring the presidential nomination acceptance speeches of Joe Biden and Donald Trump … If history is any guide, there will be at least one memorable line or phrase from each speech.
Like in 1964:
"So let us here tonight, each of us, all of us, rededicate ourselves to keeping burning the golden torch of promise which John Fitzgerald Kennedy set aflame”
That was President Lyndon Johnson, accepting the nomination at the 1964 Democratic National Convention… He ran for…
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