I appreciate your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here, for I know well the sleepless hours which you and I have had. I regret that I am late, but I have no control over the winds of Heaven and could only be thankful for my Navy training.The appearance before a National Convention of its iva-glossary/nominee” class=”kblinker” title=”More about nominee »”>nominee for President, to be formally notified of his selection, is unprecedented and unusual, but these are unprecedented and unusual times. I have started out on the tasks that lie ahead by
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Franklin D. Roosevelt - July 2, 1932
