If you remember, I was nominated over in Chicago, and immediately all the party strategists came to give me advice.

For today our whole economy turns and depends upon the commerce of the world through such ports as this.

So among other things, keep a grin on your face.

And most of it, I suppose, was good.

And so, with you, although there may not be a face in the throng that I recognize, I feel at home--and I hope you will allow me to do so.

This great and wonderful living that we have has featuring among other things the finest diet in the world--and the Hereford produces most of it.

In any event, that industry has now reached the proportions that everything that affects it is of interest to the entire United States.

Well, it shows you how wrong people can be, when they prophesy against progress.

In the first place, this is my section of the world.

To live for America as devotedly, as nobly as so many thousands have died for her is the greatest ambition any of her children can have.

Thus, in this fashion, we will firm up the needed program and we will have that program ready for the consideration of the Congress early next year.

I look upon the formulation of a sound farm policy as a bi-partisan undertaking.

The importance of the place they occupy in American life needs not fewer but more of them.

They were explorers and trappers and missionaries, traders, and farmers, and teachers, diggers of waterways and skilled operators of an industrial empire.

Above all else, however, in the story of their achievements, they helped construct a way of life--the American way of life, of which the cornerstone is an indestructible faith in man's dignity as a child of God.

Everything that your Government can do to bring peace and decency in this world is being done.

A disaster of nature's making came to aggravate the trouble.

I believe that America can bring about a situation in which we can have peace.