Roosevelt chose Wallace because of Wallace's positions on the New Deal and aid to Britain, and because he hoped that Wallace would appeal to agricultural voters. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt had flown to Chicago to campaign; after her husband's nomination, she gave what came to be known as her "No Ordinary Time" speech in support of Wallace. Though many Democrats regarded Wallace as a mystic or an intellectual, the delegates acquiesced; Wallace won the nomination on the first ballot over Bankhead.