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TRUHIN
ARCHIVES AL
"NATIONAL
RECORDS
AND
SERVICE'S
EDITION
GOVERNMENT
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
REAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF PRESIDENT TRUMAN
AT COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, SEPTEMBER 20, 1948
4:26 p
m.s.t.
Thank you very much. I am very happy to be in Colorado
Springs again. I have been here on numerous occasions. It's
a lovely place, beautifully situated, and you don't dare talk
about the climate of Colorado Springs in California--on Florida
either, for that matter.
One of the reasons you are prosperous and happy is
because you've learned now to use your resources to the very
best advantage, especially your water resources.
You know, the Reclamation Act has been on the books for
more than 30 years, but nothing much was done about it or the
development of this part of the world until 1932, when you
elected Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Most of you in 1932 had given up hope and were thinking
of going somewhere else, along with the Okies and the other
people who were moving around the country; but much to your
satisfaction you didn't do that.
At that time the income of the great state of Colorado
was about 350 million dollars. Do you know what it was last
year? It was a billion, five hundred million dollars. And
that wasn't due to any accident. That was due to the develop-
ment of the resources of this great state.
It's a wonderful thing that has happened to this part
of the world in the last decade, and I am wondering whether you XX
are going to let the present propaganda machine fool you into
turning the clock back to 1932 again. I am very sure you
won't do that. If you'll just study the facts and the
figures, you can't do anything else but keep an administra-
tion in power that has been trying to do things for this part
of the world.
I made a speech in Denver at noon, in which I made the
statement that due to the example of that terrible 80th
Republican Congress elected in 1946, I could say definitely
that the Republicans are trying to sabatage the West.
In 1946, you know, two-thirds of you stayed at home
and didn't vote. You wanted a change. Well, you got it.
You got the change. You got just exactly what you deserved.
If you stay at home on November the 2nd and let this
same gang get control of the government, I won't have any
sympathy with you. But if you go out to the polls on that
day and do your duty as you should I won't have to worry
about moving out of the White House; and you won't have to
worry about what happens to the welfare of the West. Those
two things go together.
I have been most happy today to travel around over
Colorado with your Democratic candidate for Congre SS and your
Democratic candidate for the Senate, Ed Johnson, and with
your wonderful and able Demociatic Governor who introduced
me up in Denver today. It's been a pleasure to be with
those gentlemen, and I want to see Colorado come out of the
kinks entirely and send us a Democratic delegation in toto
to the Congress.
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