○  1984 vice presidential nomination acceptance address  ○

to our students and their parents, we say: we will insist on the highest standards of excellence, because the jobs of the future require skilled minds. to young americans who may be called to our country's service, we say: we know your generation will proudly answer our country's call, as each generation before you.

this past year, we remembered the bravery and sacrifice of americans at normandy. and we finally paid tribute -- as we should have done years ago -- to that unknown soldier who represents all the brave young americans who died in vietnam. let no one doubt, we will defend america's security and the cause of freedom around the world. but we want a president who tells us what america's fighting for, not just what we are fighting against.

we want a president who will defend human rights, not just where it is convenient, but wherever freedom is at risk -- from chile to afghanistan, from poland to south africa. to those who have watched this administration's confusion in the middle east, as it has tilted first toward one and then another of israel's long-time enemies and wonder: "will america stand by her friends and sister democracy?" we say: america knows who her friends are in the middle east and around the world. america will stand with israel always.

finally, we want a president who will keep america strong, but use that strength to keep america and the world at peace. a nuclear freeze is not a slogan: it is a tool for survival in the nuclear age. if we leave our children nothing else, let us leave them this earth as we found it: whole and green and full of life.

i know in my heart that walter mondale will be that president.

a wise man once said, "every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. if it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it imp

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