The Wilmington Morning Star (August 19, 1944)
Truman to deliver acceptance speech
Washington (AP) – (Aug. 18)
President Roosevelt today approved plans for his fourth term running mate, Senator Harry S. Truman, to accept the vice-presidential nomination August 31 in an open-air speech at the courthouse in Lamar, Missouri, Truman’s birthplace.
Truman disclosed this after a White House visit where he held his first conference with Mr. Roosevelt since he was nominated for Vice President.
The Senator said he would also make a campaign speech on Labor Day at Detroit, but beyond that, his political speechmaking was in the hands of the Democratic National Committee.