Press release of speech given by Eleanor Roosevelt before the Democratic National Convention

DENOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION COMVENTION PUBLICITY DIVISION EXHIBITION HALL CONRAD HILTON HOTEL CHICAGO, ILLINOIS TEXT OF ADDRESS OF MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT TO DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1956 MRS. ROOSEVELT: Mr. Chairman, delegates to the Convention, ladies and gentlemon who are visitors: Twice before I have spoken to a National Democratic Convention; onee I came when you had nominated ay husband to be your standard bearer and spoke with a message from him, and once I came at the invitation of Prosident Truman to spoak to you about the United Nations and what it moant to all of us. Tonight I come at the invitation of the National Chairman of the Deomocratic Party to speak to you as a fellow Demoorat. (Applause.) I cannot talk to you about my choice as your standard bearer, but I do want to talk to you about our Party and our duty. You herehave a heavier responsibility than oven I have, because you are delegates. You are going back into your communities all over the country, and you will tell your friends, your neighbors what you believe a demo- cratic victory should mean. I do not believe that victory in itself is enough. I want victory, and I believe we will have it in November -- (Applause.) but I want even more, that each and overy one of you, as you go back into your comunities, take the message of what you want that victory to nean. We must be & united Party. (Applause.) It is true we have differences, but everymbere in our country we know that today our differences must somehow be resolved, because we stand before the world on trial, really, to show what democrney means, and that is a heavy responsibility, because the world today is de- ciding between demcoracy and Communism, and one means freedom and one means slavery. (Applause.)