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    "ocrText": "IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nREAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT\nTRUNKS\nOCEANSIDE, C/LIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 24, 1948,\n\"NATIONAL\n10:45 a.m., c.d.s.t.\nRECORDS\nSERVICE\"\nI appreciate very much that most cordial introduction\nof Mr. McKinnon, who I understand is going to be your next\nCongressman. I am very happy that you are going to send a\nDemocrat. to Washington. In your own selfish, special interest\nyou ought to send 8 Democrat to Washington.\nThe Democratic Party stands for those things in which\nyou are most interested. The Democratic Party has been responsible\nfor the development of water power, and the other things in which\nthe West is XXXX vitally interested. If you read the record, you\nwill find that all these great projects originated under Democratic\nAdministrations, and you will find that this Republican 80th\nCongr SS has done everything it possibly can to sabotage the West.\nAnd they are still at it. You can't afford to allow that to\nhappen.\nNow, your great need in this part of the world is water,\nand we are trying to develop a plan for the whole of the State of\nCalifornia which will to some extent, and I hope completely solve\nthe water problem which you are up against, and which the whole\nState is up against, because of the shortage of water. When you\ngo through this beautiful country, it almost makes you weep to think\nof what could be done if you just had the water to put on this land.\nNow, if you will remember, when President Roosevelt was\ndown here, he ordered this aqueduct to be builtbecause it was\nnecessary ti furnish water not only to this part of California,\nbut to keep the naval works and airplane factories going that were\nin San Diego. The first thing the Republicans did, as soin as they\ngot into iffice, was to try to sabotage that great project, but we\nsucceeded in getting it restores; and we--the Democrats--are now\nworking on a plan which we hope will increase the water supply to\nthis part of the country.\nYou are interested in Housing. The Republican Congress\nsabotaged the Housing bill. That bill passed the Senate and went\nover to the House, and the Chairman of the Banking and Currency\nCommittee and the Chairman of the Rules Committee prevented the\nHouse from voting on that measure. I am sure that the House, if it\nhad been allowed to vote by the Republican leadership, would have\npassed that Housing bill.\nThat bill was introduced nearly three years ago and it\nwas called the Wegner-Ellender-Taft bill. It passed the Senate\nat that time and was defeated in the House. In the 80th\nCongress it was introduced again in 1947, and it was called the\nTafteEllender-Wagner bill. It passed the Senate, went over to the\nHouse, and Senator Taft himself helped to kill that bill-- his\nown bill with his name on it.\nThat is customary with the present Congress and its\nleadership, and you want to bear in mind that if you send another\nCongress back there with E Republican tinge and a Republican majority,\nyou will have the same old bunch of mossbacks in charge that are in\ncharge now, and you won't get a thing.\nYou ought to besr all these things in mind. In Los\nAngeles last night, I went into detail as to what the Democratic\nParty stands for, and you know how I stand on these things.\nTry to find out where the rest of the people stand who\nare in opposition to me. See whether they will tell you or not.\nI Icn't think they will, because they are trying to make you believe\none thing when they are really going to do another. It's a case of\ndouble talk.\nYou don't have to find cut what I mean when I say it.\nI say it so yxxx you can understand it. The record speaks for\nitself. All you have to do is study the record.\n(OVER)"
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