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    "ocrText": "IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nREAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT\nT. TULARE, CALIFORNIA, September 23,\nTRUMP\n1948, at 9:26, a.m., C.d.s.t.\n\"NATIONAL\nRECORDS\nMr. Chairman and ladies and gentlemen: My, what\nderful turnout! I certainly do appreciate your courtesy and I'm\nglad of the privilege of having a chance to meet you face to face\nand talk to you a little bit about some of the things in which\nyou are interested.\nYou not only raise wonderfully diversified crops in this\npart of the world, but you also raise some mighty fine people.\nBob Mathias was in to see me the other day and I had a grand visit\nwith him. That young man is, in my mind, typical of what future\ngenerations of Americans are going to be, and you know, the\nreason for that is because they have a wholesome home life. It's\nbecause they have plenty to eat and plenty to wear, and they're\nnot raised under a fear complex.\nThis coming generation, I think -- and I wish I was a\npart of it -- will see the greatest age in history. I think you\nare going to see atomic energy developed for the peaceful welfare\nof the world. I think you are going to see more gadgets and more\nthings to make life worth living in the coming hundred years than\nwe had over the last hundred.\nYou know, while I was on the Appropriations Committee of\nthe United States Senate, I ran across a document, a report by\nthe Commissioner of Patents in 1843 in which he recommended to\nthe Appropriations Committee of the Senate that no more money be\nappropriated to support the Patent bureau, and that it ought to\nbe abolished -- that everything worth while had been invented\nand there was not any use of the Government to go to the expense\nof maintaining the Patent bureau.\nThat was in 1843. That was before we had the telephone\nand the electric light and all these things which we take as\nevery day things and are used to them.\nI think the next age is going to be greater than the one\nwe have just been through and all these young people are going\nto see something that will make life not only happier but batter.\nAnd we are going to have that situation, I'm sure, throughout\nthe whole world.\nNow, in order to do that, we have got to be in a position\nto raise plenty to est, plenty things that make the clothes that\nwe wear.\nThis Valley, I am told, is one of the most diversified\nin the world -- that you raise everything in this Valley that\ngoes to make life worth while in the world. Keep the t up.\nIn order to keep that up, you have got to have a Govern-\nment that is in sympathy with what you are trying to do. You\nhave got to have a Government that understands what it means to\nthe everyday man to put the sweat of his brow into a piece of land.\nNow, in times post, you haven't always had that sympathy\nfrom the Federal Government. I think this 80th Congress has done\nmore to turn the clock back than any Congress we have had since\n1926 -- and that's going a long way back. You can't afford to\nhave that sort of thing.\nWe don't want to turn the clock back. We want the clock\nto go forward, and if you want to go forward -- if you want to 20\nwith the forwsrd-looking people -- Co-forward with the Democratic\nParty, and I claim that the Democratic Party is the forward-looking\nparty in this United States, and that the Democratic Party has the\ninterests of the farmer and the laborer and the white-collar man\nand the little businessman at heart. The Republican Party has al-\nways represented special interests, and I think they still repre-\nsent special interests.\n(OVER)"
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