Press Release of Speech of Vice President Harry S. Truman at Jefferson City, Missouri
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OCR Page 1 of 8SPEECH OF HONORABLE HARRY S. TRUMAN
TO BE RELEASED ON DELIVERY
VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI
NARA
MUTUAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM
14.
BROADCAST TIME; 8:15 to 8:30 PM C.W.T.
FEBRUARY22, 1945
As a son of Missouri, I am especially grateful to the people of my State
for giving me this opportunity to come home. I know that apart from partisan
practices every citizen of Missouri subscribes to the sound principle of our
State Motto -- "Let the Welfare of the People be the Supreme Law."
We of Missouri are especially fortunate in our geographical position --
near the great heart of America. Situated at the crossroads of the North and the
South, as well as of the East and the West, we gradually have acquired a more
tolerant understanding of the viewpoints and problems of each section of the
Country. Missourians pioneered the West, and later supplied the East. Our sons
fought with both the North and the South. Our State was held with the North, but
suffered with the South. The mighty rivers of America flow through Missouri, like
life-giving blood streams, crossed by other arteries of iron and rail. Truly, we
are at the crossroads of America -- a political and economic center of gravity,
which must experience all the tugs and pulls inherent in our unique position.
National commentators carefully watch Missouri as a political weather
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