Item #1074 Acceptance Address by Franklin D. Roosevelt Broadcast from the White House on July 19, 1940. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Acceptance Address by Franklin D. Roosevelt Broadcast from the White House on July 19, 1940
FDR Accepts Nomination for Unprecedented Third Term

Acceptance Address by Franklin D. Roosevelt Broadcast from the White House on July 19, 1940

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1940. First printing. Self-wraps. Octavo. 14 pages. Near Fine. A few horizontal folds, fore edge chips.

This is the speech given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he accepted his party's unprecedented nomination for a third term in 1940. The outbreak of what would prove to be World War II a year earlier greatly influenced his acceptance decision. He remains the only person not only to be nominated by his party for a third term, but to serve a third and win a fourth.

Printed on four loose sheets folded in half but never bound. Includes the statement "Not printed at Government expense" on front cover.

Halter believes this to be the first printing of the speech, which also appeared in "The Democratic Campaign Hand Book 1940" and another booklet, both of which Halter believes to have been printed after this imprint.

Ref. HALTER 692.


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