![ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Document signed ("Franklin D. Roosevelt") as President, THE FULL TEXT OF HIS FAMOUS "RENDEZVOUS WITH DESINY" SPEECH, given at the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936. 5 pages, folio, on rectos only. [With:] TLS from Marguerite A. LeHand to H. V. Prochnow, 11 August 1936, enclosing the signed copy, with original White House envelope.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/NYR/2005_NYR_01685_0200_000(110645).jpg?w=1)
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ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Document signed ("Franklin D. Roosevelt") as President, THE FULL TEXT OF HIS FAMOUS "RENDEZVOUS WITH DESINY" SPEECH, given at the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936. 5 pages, folio, on rectos only. [With:] TLS from Marguerite A. LeHand to H. V. Prochnow, 11 August 1936, enclosing the signed copy, with original White House envelope.
ROOSEVELT'S MEMORABLE PROPHECY: "THIS GENERATION OF AMERICANS HAS A RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY"
Americans immediately sensed that Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936 address accepting his renomination would go down in history as one of his most memorable orations. The most striking passage--"To some generations much is given. Of others much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny"--seemed to presage the momentous events to come, as Americans pulled themselves out of the depths of a paralyzing economic depression, and joined in the conquest of fascism and militarism from 1941 to 1945.
The story behind this speech was itself quite dramatic. Delivered to a packed crowd at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Roosevelt spilled to the floor while approaching the podium--one of the few times his braces gave way in public. The text he delivered (after composing himself) was itself the fruit of a difficult struggle among the President's speechwriters. Roosevelt first asked Raymond Moley to prepare an uplifting, nonpartisan address, one stressing the themes of "faith, hope and charity." At the same time--and without telling Moley--he also asked Samuel Rosenman and Stanley High to prepare a blistering speech attacking "economic royalists" and presenting the President as the 20th century heir of the Revolutionary tradition, battling against the "tyrants" of Wall Street and the GOP. Moley thought this draft "a clumsy bit of demagoguery" and he even got into a shouting match with the President over how to revise it. Roosevelt simply grafted the two drafts together. This pleased none of the speechwriters, but Roosevelt and his listening public knew he had made a brilliant oratorical triumph. With a single phrase, "the rendezvous with destiny" speech defined the entire Roosevelt era.
ROOSEVELT'S MEMORABLE PROPHECY: "THIS GENERATION OF AMERICANS HAS A RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY"
Americans immediately sensed that Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936 address accepting his renomination would go down in history as one of his most memorable orations. The most striking passage--"To some generations much is given. Of others much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny"--seemed to presage the momentous events to come, as Americans pulled themselves out of the depths of a paralyzing economic depression, and joined in the conquest of fascism and militarism from 1941 to 1945.
The story behind this speech was itself quite dramatic. Delivered to a packed crowd at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Roosevelt spilled to the floor while approaching the podium--one of the few times his braces gave way in public. The text he delivered (after composing himself) was itself the fruit of a difficult struggle among the President's speechwriters. Roosevelt first asked Raymond Moley to prepare an uplifting, nonpartisan address, one stressing the themes of "faith, hope and charity." At the same time--and without telling Moley--he also asked Samuel Rosenman and Stanley High to prepare a blistering speech attacking "economic royalists" and presenting the President as the 20th century heir of the Revolutionary tradition, battling against the "tyrants" of Wall Street and the GOP. Moley thought this draft "a clumsy bit of demagoguery" and he even got into a shouting match with the President over how to revise it. Roosevelt simply grafted the two drafts together. This pleased none of the speechwriters, but Roosevelt and his listening public knew he had made a brilliant oratorical triumph. With a single phrase, "the rendezvous with destiny" speech defined the entire Roosevelt era.