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    "ocrText": "NATIONAL\nRECORDS\nSERVICE\nEDITION\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nREAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT davenPORT, IOWA\nSeptember 18, 1948 at 6:10 a.m., c.s.t.\nGood morning! I am not surprised to see you up at this time of\nday. I was surprised, though, in Illinois to see them get up so early.\nYou know, Iowa is, outside of Missouri, I guess, the greatest farm state.\nIt is a great pleasure to me to be with you this morning, and\nit is a very great pleasure to be present with your next Congressman, your\nnext Senator and your next Governor -- all Democrats.\nI understand that the people of Iowa have been suffering from\nthe same things that all the rest of the country has been suffering from,\nand that is the 80th Congress. They were elected in 1946 because people\ndidn't seem to be satisfied with everything in the world they needed. They\nwanted a change, and they got it.\nNow I think they have had enough of that situation and when the\nvotes are counted on Election Day, you are going to find that Iowa will XXXX\nhave a Democratic Governor, and this district will have a Democratic Senator\nand we will have Guy Gillette back in the Senate.\nIt is a very great pleasure to me to be able to go across the\ncountry in this manner and see you and talk to you and let you know what I\nam thinking. Today at Dexter, west of Des Moines, I am going to tell you\njust exactly what my program is on the farm and the farmer, and then you\nwill have a chance to make a choice between Republican reaction and Demo-\ncratic forward-looking administrations. You have to make up your mind then\nas to what your best interests are, and ***witt on election day, it will be\nyour duty, no matter what your politics or what your program is or what\nyou believe in, to go to the polls and exercise that privilege.\nYou know, in 1946 a little over one-third of the population\nvoted, and look what you got! Now, I am begging you and pleading with you,\nto be sure that on this November the second you vote.\nIf the people turn out and express their will, then we have\nthe government which is intended in our constitution. If you don't do\nthat, you are not only shirking your duty but you are liable to continue\nsomething like the 80th Congress.\nThank you."
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