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    "ocrText": "TRUMAN\nNATIONAL\nARCHIVES AND\nRECORDS\nSERVICE\"\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nREAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT\nAT AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, September 21, 1948\n4:45 p.m. m.s.t.\nWell! I am certainly happy to be in the home town of\nthe next Congresswoman from this District. I would rather not\ndo it here, but when I get a chance to have a private conversa-\ntion with her, I am going to tell her about another town that I\nthink is the greatest town in the world. Naturally, if we don't\nthink our home town is the greatest in the world, we are\nnot very loyal citizens. We all should feel that way.\nYou have every reason to be proud of this wonderful\ngarden spot here, You don't know how beautiful it looks when\nyou drive through, or when you fly over it, or when you go through\nit on a train such as we are doing now.\nMy interest is tc keep this part of the world prosperous,\nand on a parity wi th the rest of United States. I think that has\nbeen the policy of the Democratic Party ever since it was organi-\nzed--a fair deal for everybody give everybody 8 chance.\nYou know, this country now has the largest income it has\never had in its history. We cannot appreciate just how much it\nis. It amounts to 217 billion dollars for 1947, and it is going\nto be bigger for 1948.\nThat income is so distributed that the farmer, the working\nman, the white collar man--all sectors of the population, get a\nfair share of that income.\nThat was not the case when we had a different sort of\napproach to this thing - - when the special interests ruled the\ncountry. We had a phony boom, and a bust came very shortly\nafter that. We can't afford to have that happen again. We\ncan't afford to take a chance on having that happen again,\nand I am advising you for your own interest that you had better\ngo to the polls on the 2nd day of November and elect E Democratic\nCongressman from this district, and reelect the whole Democratic\nticket.\nThen you will know that the country is in safe hands, that\nthe interests of the common people are being looked after as they\nshould be.\nI want to thank you very much for this privilege of getting\nto see you.\n##"
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