—
President
Says
He's
Reluctant
But Will Be Good
Soldier
If People Want
Him
WASHINGTON, July 11.—(AP)—
President Roosevelt, with a
nonchalant smile on his face but his hands atremble with emotion, announced
today that he would accept a 4th term nomination
and, if elected, would serve
"reluctantly, but as a good soldier."
The announcement, which surprised
newsmen and politicians only as to its timing, was made at a White House news
conference. The President read a letter from
Chairman Robert E. Hannegan of the
Democratic national committee informing him that more than a majority of
convention delegates are already "legally bound" to support his
renomination and asking that he "again respond to the call of the party
and the people."
Then he read his
reply:
"If the convention should
carry this out, and nominate me for the presidency, I shall accept. If the people
elect me, I will serve."
At one point in his reading, he
threw down the correspondence, and remarked that he had to have a cigaret. When
his hands trembled, apparently from scarcely suppressed nervous emotion, he
quipped that it was too bad the cigarette was not a Murad—traditionally associated
with nonchalance in the advertising columns.
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