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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\n--one of them comes from upper New York, the chairman does, and the\nother comes from New Hampshire. What do they know about the West?\nI don't think either one of them set foot west of the Appalachian\nmountains. The chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the\nSenate may, some time or other on some Senate jaunt, have been out\nhere, but he didn't know what he was looking at when he saw it.\nYou want to be careful, now, when you go to the polls\nnext November the 2nd. Don't two-thirds of you stay at home. All\nof you get out there, and if you want to do yourself a real favor,\nyou'll send Ed Johnson back to the Senate, and you'll send Mr.\nAspinall here to the Congress.\nI've had a most pleasant time in Colorado. Your\nGovernor has been most hospitable to me. He's a good Democratic\nGovernor, and I hope you continue to have Democratic Governors\nin Colorado.\nI've met most of your candidates for Congress. They all\nimpress me as being fine gentlemen.\nI want you to bear this in mind: not only do I want\nyou to vote for me. As I said time and again in Iowa and Colorado\nand everywhere I've been, I want you to vote for yourselves, vote\nfor your own interests. You can't possibly reestablish another\n80th do-nothing Republican Congress and a Republican President in\nthe White House. You can't afford to do that.\nAnd if you' 11 just go to the polls and vote, I won't be\ntroubled by the housing shortage--I can stay in the White House.\n##\nTRUMAN"
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