Reagan endorsed Ford after his defeat, and gave an eloquent and stirring speech that overshadowed Ford's own acceptance address.

His acceptance address is printed in his essay collection The Art of the Novel.

In an era of rapid-response campaigning, it was the first rapid-response acceptance address.

"This whole country was born of voluntarism," said Peggy Noonan, a former Bush speechwriter who coined the phrase when she wrote his acceptance address.

The following day Humphrey's acceptance speech overshadowed Johnson's own acceptance address:

We could detect that problem in a second revelatory moment in his acceptance address.

Now to the acceptance address, the modern centerpiece of the precontested convention.

The acceptance addresses of the awardees are usually published in the society's journal, Human Organization.

Kennedy, for example, used his 1960 acceptance address to define the New Frontier as "not a set of promises" but rather "a set of challenges."

It was Franklin D. Roosevelt who broke with the tradition in 1932 by flying to Chicago and delivering his acceptance address to the convention.