nominating address

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nominating address - an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election; "the nomination was brief and to the point"

nominating speech, nomination

political science, politics, government - the study of government of states and other political units

oratory - addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory"

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Eisenhower was known to resent Goldwater for calling his administration a "dime store New Deal," and privately he had threatened to renounce the Goldwater forces for reckless exploitation on civil rights, saying that if Republicans "begin to count on the `white backlash,' we will have a big civil war." Rumors of a decisive Eisenhower statement quickened when his brother Milton delivered a passionate nominating address on behalf of William Scranton, the surviving alternative to Goldwater, but Eisenhower remained neutral to the end.