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Wendell Wilkie – Acceptance speech – short and to the point.

Click on the link here for audio player: Wilkie Acceptance Speech – 1940

No frills, no send-ups, no films, no slide-shows. Wendell Wilkie accepted the nomination as Presidential candidate for the Republican party in the 1940 election.

His speech lasted just a little over six minutes – the demonstration lasted a bit longer. All business and no bullshit.

How refreshing.

Here is that address as broadcast by CBS Radio on the closing night of the 1940 Republican convention.

~ by gordonskene on August 31, 2012.

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