952 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

Ask the people of New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Indiana, Nebraska,
South Dakota, Oregon — and they will tell you of a man who took
his case to the people, and put his prestige on the line in every
primary.

Ask the people with whom he shared power in Washington, and
they will tell you of a man who has the wisdom to comprehend his-
tory, and the foresight to anticipate it; the confidence to make hard
decisions; the courage to keep cool before one man in Moscow or a
mob in Caracas.

Ask the people who have known him throughout his lifetime, and
they will tell you of a man of warmth and wit, his perspective en-
riched by the private years.

Ask the people of this Convention, and they will tell you of a man
who helped lead this party to its greatest victories in the past two
decades, and who stood by the party and its candidate in their darkest
hour.

And when the American people are asked in November, they will
speak too:

For a man firm in upholding the law, and determined in the pursuit
of justice.

For a man who can negotiate peace without sacrificing life, land
or liberty.

For a man who had the courage to rise up from the depths of
defeat six years ago — and to make the greatest political comeback
in American history.

For the one man whose life gives proof that the American dream is
not a shattered myth and that the American spirit — its strength and
sense and stability — remains firm.

The final test of a man who seeks the Presidency is not what he
promises but what he can do; not what he says, but what he is.

The man I nominate tonight is a President.

When a nation is in crisis, and when history speaks firmly to that
nation that it needs a man to match the times — you don't create such
a man; you don't discover such a man; you recognize such a man.

It is my privilege to place in nomination for the office of President
of the United States, the one man whom history has so clearly thrust
forward — the one whom all America will recognize as a man whose
time has come — the man for 1968, the Honorable Richard M. Nixon.