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    "ocrText": "HOLD FOR RELEASE\nHOLD FOR RELEASE\nHOLD FOR RELEASE\nOctober 29, 1948\nCONFIDENTIAL: The following address of the President, to be delivered at\nthe Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City this evening, Friday, October\n29, 1948, IS FOR RELEASE IN ALL REGULAR EDITIONS OF MORNING NEWSPAPERS OF\n\"NATIONAL\nSaturday, October 30, 1948.\nARCHIVES AND\nRECORDS\nLIMESEY\nU.S.\nSERVICE\"\nCHARLES G. ROSS\nSecretary to the President\nIt is good of you to come here tonight. I appreciate it. All of\nNew York City has given me a wonderful reception. And Brooklyn makes it\nunanimous.\nI have good news for you. We have the Republicans on the run.\nAll we have to do now is to see that everybody gets to the polls on\nelection day. I want everybody who is listening to me tonight to make me a\npromise. I want you to promise that you will vote and that you will make sure\nthat your neighbors vote.\nAsk your neighbors to vote. Help them get to the polls.\nThis is a crusade for the people, and the way to win it is with votes.\nNow, before anything else, I would like to pay tribute to a man who\nis not here tonight. He's not here because he's out fighting for you, fighting\nshoulder to shoulder with me in this great crusade. I'd like to pay tribute\nto my good friend and running-mate, Senator Alben W. Barkley.\nSenator Barkley has been working hard, making a terrific fight to\nhelp tell the people of this country the facts of life.\nHe's doing a splendid job and I want all of you to know that he's\nyour friend, and he's working for you.\nWhat's more, he's been fighting for you, and he and I, together, will\ngo on fighting for you.\nWe said we would tell the people the truth in this campaign, and we\nhave done it. The American people know that we believe in them. They know\nthat we trust them. And they have responded. All they wanted was to have some-\nbody talk to them about the issues.\nThe Republican canddate wouldn't tell them. He didn't dare.\nWhen Senator Barkley and I started out, there wasn't a newspaper\nin the country that would have given a plugged nickel for our chance to win\nthis election for the people.\nNow they're beginning to sing another tune. That's because we are\ngoing to win. The Democratic Party is going to win because you are going to vote.\nThis night marks the end of my campaign in the East. And the East\nis with us. A few weeks ago the papers said Massachusetts was in the bag for\nthe Republicans. That just isn't SO. Massachusetts is going Democratic by\n100,000 votes.\nRhode Island is Democratic.\nConnecticut is going Democratic by 40,000, and as for New York --\nwell, you tell me.\nIs New York going Democratic? Of course it is!\nNew York State is going to turn in a good old-fashioned Democratic\nmajority, just as it did four times in a row for Franklin D. Roosevelt.\nTonight I'm going to talk about how this election affects your chance\nfor peace.\nIn the interest of peace, your Democratic Party has created strong\nbipartisan support for the kind of foreign policy that would not change over\nthe years.\n(OVER)"
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