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"NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
EDITION
SERVICE
SOVERAMENT
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
REAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
AT GRINNELL, IOWA, September 18, 1948
8:55 a.m. c.s.t.
I appreciate that introduction very highly. Thank you,
Doctor. I am a synthetic alumni.
My first honorary degree in my life I received from
Grinnell College and I treasure it above all the others I've
received since.
I'd like very much to introduce my daughter to you:
Miss Margaret.
You know, it's a very great pleasure for us to be.in
Iowa today on this wonderful sunshiny fall day. You know,
I met a fellow a while ago who is one of the most unusual I've
ever seen. He told me that he had moved from Miami, Florida
to Iowa six years ago; and I also met another remarkable
fellow who told me that he moved from California to Iowa.
When I'm out in California about half the population out
there is made up of Iowans and Missourians, so we've got at
least some reverse on the subject.
This country is wonderful. I was raised down here in
Jackson County, Missouri, which is just like this Iowa
country . It has black soil, raises corn and wheat and oats
and alfalfa and lespadiza and soy beans and most everything
else that you raise around here in this part of the world;
and I'm so happy to see the prosperity as I come across this
great state.
I never saw such corn crops. They tell me it's the
greatest one in the history of the country; and the wheat crop
is the second largest that this country has ever raised; and
you know, that's necessary, for we have been under these
emergency conditions, responsible for keeping millions and
millions of people from starving to death, and I think Almighty
God gave us that privilege, and I think we ought tomake use of
it.
Now, down here at Dexter today I'm going to try to
outline to you the Democratic farm program. You know what
that program is, but I'm going to reiterate it and bring it
home to you and try to get you into a frame of mind so that
you'll exercise your responsibility this fall when it comes
time to vote. Your greatest responsibility is the responsibility
of seeing that your government is the sort of government you
want: because you are the government. You are not the govern-
ment, though, when you don't exercise your franchise. I'm
emphasizing that everywhere I go.
The most patriotic thing you can do under the circum-
stances today is to be sure and cast your vote on the second
of November.
Again, I want to thank you for this privilege of
stopping here in this wonderful town where this wonderful
Grinnell College is, and a part of which I feel I am.
Again, thank you, Doctor Stevens.
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