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    "ocrText": "2 -\nBREENFIELD\nWhen the Republicans finally got control of the 80th Congress\na new fight began, a fight to save these Democratic programs. I had to\nfight throughout the Republican 80th Congress to keep the Rural Electrificati\nProgram from being stopped altogether. They wanted to repeal it. They\ndidn't want to give it any money at all. I had to fight for farm price\nsupports and the school lunch program. It was all the Administration of\nwhich I was the head could do to prevent the Congress from slashing funds\nfor soil conservation right out of the budget. They did take it out in\nthe House but we had enough good, sensible Democrats in the Senate and\na few forward-looking - Republicans, and we put that appropriation back.\nThe Republican leaders seemed. determined to knock the props from under\nfarm prosperity, despite the fact that everyone knows that farm prosperity\nis essential to national prosperity.\nI don't think American farmers intend to losa the ground they\nhave won. That's why I am confident they will vote to send Mr. Oliver to\nthe Congress, they will vote to send Mr. Schricker to the Capital of\nIndiana, and they will vote to s send me back to the White House, because\nthat is to their best interests to do -- to do all three of those\nthings.\nNow, the best thing you can do is to vote in your own selfish\ninterest on Election Day, and when you do that you'll vote the Democratic\nticket straight -- and then you won't have to worry about the clock being\nturned back. If you vote that Republican Congress back you'll have the\nsame/old backward-looking leaders. You can't afford to do that.\nGet up early, now, and go to the polls on Election Day and vote\na straight Democratic ticket and vote in your own interest.\nI do thank you a lot for this wonderful turnout, this wonderful\nwelcome I have had in Indiana -- in Richmond and at this place, just\nlike it was everywhere else in the United States. Ev rybody is interested\nin these issues, and they are coming out to find out what I am thinking\nabout them. And you don't have any trouble finding out where I stand.\nI tell you frankly where I stand on all these issues which affect the\npeople. Try to get the other fellow to do that -- and you'll be a good\none if you can get it done."
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