'WITH A DEEP SENSE OF DUTY & HIGH RESOLVE, I ACCEPT YOUR NOMINATION"

JFK ACCEPTS DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION IN LOS ANGELES
  
Los Angeles (JFK+50) On July 15, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts accepted the nomination of the Democratic Party for President of the United States here in Los Angeles. 

Senator Kennedy began his acceptance speech with these words... 

"With a deep sense of duty and high resolve, I accept your nomination.  I accept it without reservation and with only one obligation--to devote every effort of body, mind & spirit to lead our party back to victory and our nation to greatness."

JFK talked about plans for a "New Frontier."  He said...

"We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier--the frontier of the 1960s, the frontier of unfilled hopes and unfilled threats."

JFK described his New Frontier as not...

"a set of promises (but) a set of challenges.   It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them."

*Chris Matthews says that Nixon was watching JFK's speech on television, telling those around him that JFK was performing poorly, his speech above people's heads and his delivery too fast.

SOURCES

"Jack Kennedy:  Elusive Hero," by Chris Matthews, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2011.

"John F. Kennedy Democratic National Convention Acceptance Address, The New Frontier," American Rhetoric:  Online Speech Bank, www.americanrhetoric.com/

JFK Accepts Nomination

July 15, 1960

JFK Library Photo