White House Press Release, Address by President Harry S. Truman at Brooklyn, New York

HOLD FOR RELEASE HOLD FOR RELEASE HOLD FOR RELEASE October 29, 1948 CONFIDENTIAL: The following address of the President, to be delivered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City this evening, Friday, October 29, 1948, IS FOR RELEASE IN ALL REGULAR EDITIONS OF MORNING NEWSPAPERS OF "NATIONAL Saturday, October 30, 1948. ARCHIVES AND RECORDS LIMESEY U.S. SERVICE" CHARLES G. ROSS Secretary to the President It is good of you to come here tonight. I appreciate it. All of New York City has given me a wonderful reception. And Brooklyn makes it unanimous. I have good news for you. We have the Republicans on the run. All we have to do now is to see that everybody gets to the polls on election day. I want everybody who is listening to me tonight to make me a promise. I want you to promise that you will vote and that you will make sure that your neighbors vote. Ask your neighbors to vote. Help them get to the polls. This is a crusade for the people, and the way to win it is with votes. Now, before anything else, I would like to pay tribute to a man who is not here tonight. He's not here because he's out fighting for you, fighting shoulder to shoulder with me in this great crusade. I'd like to pay tribute to my good friend and running-mate, Senator Alben W. Barkley. Senator Barkley has been working hard, making a terrific fight to help tell the people of this country the facts of life. He's doing a splendid job and I want all of you to know that he's your friend, and he's working for you. What's more, he's been fighting for you, and he and I, together, will go on fighting for you. We said we would tell the people the truth in this campaign, and we have done it. The American people know that we believe in them. They know that we trust them. And they have responded. All they wanted was to have some- body talk to them about the issues. The Republican canddate wouldn't tell them. He didn't dare. When Senator Barkley and I started out, there wasn't a newspaper in the country that would have given a plugged nickel for our chance to win this election for the people. Now they're beginning to sing another tune. That's because we are going to win. The Democratic Party is going to win because you are going to vote. This night marks the end of my campaign in the East. And the East is with us. A few weeks ago the papers said Massachusetts was in the bag for the Republicans. That just isn't SO. Massachusetts is going Democratic by 100,000 votes. Rhode Island is Democratic. Connecticut is going Democratic by 40,000, and as for New York -- well, you tell me. Is New York going Democratic? Of course it is! New York State is going to turn in a good old-fashioned Democratic majority, just as it did four times in a row for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Tonight I'm going to talk about how this election affects your chance for peace. In the interest of peace, your Democratic Party has created strong bipartisan support for the kind of foreign policy that would not change over the years. (OVER)