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"You bring, Mr. Chairman, formal notice of my nomination by the Republican Party to the Presidency of the United States. I accept. . . ."
Radio, Thesis: "Those invisible millions have already heard from Kansas City the reading of our party principles. They would wish to hear from me not a discourse upon the platform—in which I fully concur—but something of the spirit and ideals with which it is proposed to carry it into administration.
"Our problems of the past seven years have been problems of reconstruction; our problems of the future are problems of construction. They are problems of progress....