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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.

Karl Rove, the chief political strategist for President Bush's reelection campaign, offers his thoughts on the Democratic convention, Sen. John Kerry's service in Vietnam, the Republican National Convention and the president's bid for a second term in the White House.