Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Lower the microphones. I cant. I have to have them up where i can see. Im sorry that the microphones are in your way but they have to be where they are because i have to be able to see what im doing, as im always able to see what im doing. [ applause ] i cant tell you how very much i appreciate the honor which youve just conferred upon me. I shall continue to try to deserve it. [ applause ] i accept the nomination. I want to thank this convention for its unanimous nomination of my good friend and colleague senator barkley of kentucky. Hes a great man and a great public servant. Senator barkley and i will win this election and make these republicans like it. Dont you forget that. Well do that because they are wrong and were right, and ill prove it to you in just a few minutes. This convention met to express the will and reaffirm the beliefs of the Democratic Party. There have been differences of opinion, and thats the demo
[ cheers and applause ] thank you, thank you. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Thank you. Please. Thank you. Thank you very much. Im sorry that the microphones are in the way. They have to be where they are because i have to see what im doing. As i always am able to see what im doing. [ cheers and applause ] i cant tell you how very much i appreciate the honor, which you just conferred upon me. I shall continue to try to deserve it. [ cheers and applause ] i accept the nomination. [ cheers and applause ] and i want to thank this convention for its unanimous nomination of my good friend and colleague, senator barkley of kentucky. Hes a great man and a great public servant. Senator barkley and i will win this election and these republicans like it, dont you forget that. [ cheers and applause ] we will that because they are wrong and we are right, and i will prove it to you in just a few minutes. [ cheers and applause ] this convention met to express the will and reaffirm the
So leaders had a much Better Direct sense of what the people actually thought. You can see a lot of polling data in this and in flushing out exactly what it was americans thought. I will focus a lot on Public Opinion and then we will talk about policy as a reflection of Public Opinion. At the start of the war in europe, my argument is there were two basic positions held almost unanimously by the American People. They wanted britain and france to win the war, to defeat germany, and they did not want the United States to have to fight in that war to make it happen. Over the course of the two plus years of this debate, nothing that happened really change fundamentally, those two points of view. There will be changes in American Opinion, but those two fundamental views remain the same. Even on the eve of pearl harbor, most Americans Still wanted to avoid direct american involvement as a belligerent in world war ii. The great debate moved the American Public in the direction of risking war,
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