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    "ocrText": "IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nIMMEDIAT_ RELEASE\nREMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT FROM\nTHE REAR PLATFORM OF THE FREEDOM\n\"NATIONAL\nTRAIN, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA\nARCHIVES AND\nSeptember 17, 1948, 6:25 p.m. EST\nRECORDS\nSERVICE\"\nMr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:\nThis is indeed a surprise to me. I started this train off\nin Washington just about a year ago; and I'm happy to be present\nin Pittsburgh on its an iversary.\nI am informed that it has been in something over three hundred\ntowns and that something like two million seven hundred thousand\npeople have been through it. It's an education in itself and\nI want to advise everyone who has not seen it to go through it\nand get an education on the history of the United States. It has\ndocuments in it that will convince you that your Government is\nthe greatest and the best Government in the world, if you don't\nalready believe that way.\nThere is the original document of the Declaration of Independence\nthe Gettysburg Address, the Constitution of the United States,\nand many others, too numerous for me to mention this evening.\nI certainly do appreciate this privilege. This stands for\nreal Americanism, real patriotism. You can't help but be a happy\nperson after you walk through this train and see what all our\ninterests have been--the welfare and the right of the individual,\nthe first ten amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.\nWe have a system in which we believe that the Government is\nfor the benefit of the individual. There are other systems which\nmake the individual subject to the whims of the Government. We've\nbeen fi hting for that ever since 1776, for the welfare and the\nbenefit of the individual.\nWe have the greatest Government in the world. We have the\ngreatest country in the world. We have the most powerful country\nin the world. Let's live up to our ideals and keep working for\nthat peace which all of us want so badly. We want peace in the\nworld and justice to every individual in every nation in the world.\nThat's what we fought two world wars for. I'm hoping, and I've\nalways been hopeful, that we would eventually reach that ideal\ncondition where the United Nations would represent the world as\nthe United States r ;presents the government of the United States.\nThank you very much.\n##"
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