Telegram to Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Charles L. McNary Responding to His Telegram Conceding the Presidential Election
November 06, 1940
Many thanks for your generous and therefore characteristic message and I know you and I will work together in the national interest. I heartily reciprocate all your good wishes.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Source: "Willkie Telegram, President and His Rival Exchange Messages on the Election," New York Times, November 7, 1940, p. 1.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Telegram to Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Charles L. McNary Responding to His Telegram Conceding the Presidential Election Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/346000