Draft Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Women's Club of Springfield, Missouri
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OCR Page 1 of 6TO THE FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT WOMEN'S CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD
AT NOON, APRIL 12, 1938
Ladies of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Women's Club of Springfield and
all other good people who are here: -
It is a very great pleasure to be with you today. I have a very kindly
probably
feeling for this section of Missouri,/becaúse I am more familiar with it than
with other parts of the State. I've always come to this part of the State
for vacations, for rest and recreation and also because I have so many good
friends in Springfield and adjoining counties. I came to this part of the
State very soon after I had been nominated for the Senate and while you
seemed to prefer that very able and genial Congressman from St. Louis, John
J. Cochran, you treated me just as cordially as if I had been your choice in
the primary. I am very sure you would have given your native son a Republican
majority over Mr. Cochran just about as large as you did over me. I have
tried always to be a public servant after election and there are never any
politcal scars on me.
I am also very fond of your able and distinguished Congressman the
Honorable Ruben T. Wood. He has been a consistent Administration supporter
and has very capably represented the great Sixth District of Missouri in the
House of Representatives at Washington.
I believe that the good women of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Club are very
much interested in peace abroad and safety and security at home. It is a set
policy of these United States to stay out of foreign entanglements and I am
very happy that is the policy under present conditions abroad. That policy
was inaugurated with Washington, continued under Jefferson and is our
policy to this day.
Tomorrow is the birthday of that great exponent of democracy and the
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founder of the Democratic Party -- Thomas Jefferson.
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