Trump might give nomination speech from the White House — just like FDR

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Trump might give nomination speech from the White House — just like FDR
by J. Mark Powell
 | August 15, 2020 12:00 AM

Democrats are practically foaming at the mouth over an idea being floated by President Trump (which is hardly news — that’s been said almost every week since Jan. 20, 2017). What has the opposition party riled up now is the possibility of Trump accepting the Republican Party's presidential nomination at the White House. With the COVID-19 pandemic upending plans for both the Democratic and Republican national conventions, GOP strategists are scrambling to come up with a Plan B for the acceptance speech, the traditional grand finale of the once-every-four-years gatherings.

Using the White House, Democrats growl, would violate the federal ban on conducting political activity on government property.

Even the media are piling on the outrage. An Aug. 6 piece by Deb Riechmann of the usually reliable Associated Press wrote, “Using the Rose Garden, the Executive Mansion or even the Oval Office as the backdrop for his speech capping the Aug. 24-27 convention would mark an unprecedented use of federal property for partisan political purposes.”

Except it wouldn’t be unprecedented at all.

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FDR Accepted Renomination At White House




President Franklin D. Roosevelt made his first radio talk to the nation in Washington
on Sunday, May 26, 1940,. (AP Photo/Byron Rollins)


What do you know? Regressive Marxists have short memories. In 1940,
no one seemed to care where the president accepted renomination.