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In his acceptance speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention, President Bush is expected to outline a domestic agenda for a second term and to explain the affect the terrorist attacks had on him personally, and on the world.

Karen Hughes, a strategist for the Bush-Cheney campaign and a longtime communications adviser to President Bush, discusses the president's acceptance speech, his plan for the future and attacks on Sen. John Kerry by speakers at the Republican convention.

Margaret Warner discusses what history suggests makes a great renominating acceptance speech with presidential historian Michael Beschloss; Richard Norton Smith, executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum; and Meena Bose, professor of American politics at the U.S.