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Adlai E. Stevenson Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech 1956
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| Parent | Parent Candidate |
| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Post Date | , 12:am |
| Description | Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Convention, My Fellow Citizens:
I accept your nomination and your program. And I pledge to you every resource mind and strength that I possess to make your deed today a good one for our country and for our party.
Four years ago I stood in this same place and uttered those same words to you. But four years ago we lost. This time we will win!
My heart is full tonight, as the scenes and faces and events of those busy years in between croud my mind.
To you here tonight and across the country who have sustained me in this great undertaking for months and even years, I am deeply, humbly grateful: and to none more than the noble lady who is also the treasurer of a legacy of greatness -- Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who has reminded us so movingly that this is 1956 and not 1932, nor even 1952; that our problems alter as well as their solutions; that change is the law of life, and that political parties, no less than individuals ignore it as their peril. |
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