#nixon #1968republicannationalconventional NIXON 1968 SPEECH IN 1968 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION HELD IN MIAMI | Robert Gabay Smith | Facebook

WATCH: Richard Nixon accepts the Republican nomination for president. On this day in 1968, Richard Nixon accepted the nomination for president at the Republican National Convention in Miami, Florida. It is widely heralded as the greatest political comeback in American history. In his acceptance speech, then-candidate Nixon spoke of the American dream and the sense many had that it was slipping away. At the time this speech was given, the United States was in the midst of the Vietnam War, the vio