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OCR Page 1 of 6DRAFT - March 2, 1950
HARRY
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
BRARY
U.S.
SERVICE"
GOVERNMENT
Dear Mr. Davis:
I an much obliged to you for calling to my attention the
communication you received from the Chairman of the Republican National
Committee.
The Democratic National Committee is much more interested
in supporting the President's efforts to carry out the platform adopted
by the Democratic Convention than it is in making charges and counter-
charges. As the President told a delegation from the Emergency Civil
Rights Nobilization recently, "Action is what we want." I am enclosing
a copy of his remarks which I think will be of some interest to you.
However, since you have asked me for a reply, I will say that
the Democratic National Committee supports the President completely in
his efforts to get action from the Congress; and, in particular, to
get Members of Congress in both parties to stand up and be counted on
his civil rights proposals. We welcome the support of those Republicans
who are making a sincere effort to carry out the promises of their
platform, and se know that if they are willing to stand up and be counted
for or against the civil rights measures proposed by the President, it
will be possible to put over the program.
The President has repeatedly requested that the Congress act
on his civil rights proposals. In addition to the Special Message on
Civil Rights in 1948, a request for action was included in his State
of the Union Message both in 1949 and 1950. While these measures have
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