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    "ocrText": "IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nTRUMA\nREAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT\n\"NATIONAL\nAFTON, OKL/HOMA\nARCHIVES AND\nRECORDS\nSEPTEMBER 29, 1948, 6.50 PM CST\nSERVICE\"\nMadam Turner and Governor Turner: I certainly do\nappreciate this turnout. You know, I feel like I did when I\nstarted to come out over Texas. When I got to Gainesville,\nTexas, there was a crowd just about like this. Gainesville\nwas the last town in Texas, and I had been riding in Texas\nfor two days and had met 8 million people in Texas; and the\nGovernor of Texas had been my hest, and I kinda hated to\nleave Texas.\nThen I came across the river to Marietta, Oklahoma,\nand a crowd just like this met me there. Then I went up to\nArdmore, and there were 50 thousand people there just like\nthis all the way along. This afternoon there were a hundred\nthousand people on thestreets in Tulsa, and about 30 thousand\nin the stadium cut there. It looks 8S if you people are\nreally interested in things. In McAlester and the rest of the\ncities where we stopped, the crowds were just like this.\nI want to say to your Governor that I don't think\nmy family and I have ever enjoyed a day more thoroughly than\nwe have this day across Oklahoma. We have been most hospitably\ntreated. I couldn't ask for anything better, and as I say,\nwhile I am right next door to Missouri, I hate to leave Okla-\nhome, and my family feel the same WEY about it.\nI am going to tell you something -- I am going to\ntell you 8 secret. I have been discussing the issues all the\nway across Oklahoma in these towns, and I made a couple of\nmajor speeches in the State. The train has managed to get\naway 20 tc 25 minutes late, and I am due in Missouri at\ncertain hours for three towns over there, end I have asked\nBob Kerr to stop here and make my speech for m.e. He is going\nto speak to you after the train leaves. I know you would\nlike to hear him, because he is 8 much better speaker than I\nam. You are going to send him to the Senate, because this is\na fight between the special interests and the people.\nThe Democratic Party stands for the people. The\nRepublican Party stands for the special interests, and that\nhas been the case ever since the two parties have been in\nexistence.\nAnd the actions of this do-nothing 80th Congress have\nconclusively proved that the Republicans are still the same old\ngang they always were. They are for special interests. They\ndon't care much about what happens to the people.\nThe best way to cure that situation is for everybody\nto go out and vote on election day, and roll up such a big\nmajority here in Oklahoma that the whole world will know that\nyou don't believe in special privilege, that you believe in\nthe rights of the people.\nI can't tell you how much I appreciate the cordial\nreception I have had in this great State. If you turn out\nlike this on election day, I have got nothing to worry\nabout.\n//"
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