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    "ocrText": "IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nMAILE\n\"NATIONAL\nREAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE\nARCHIVES AND\nRECORDS\nPRESIDENT AT HILLSBORO, TEXAS,\nSERVICE\"\nSEPTEMBER 27, 1948, 12:25 p.m., c.s.t.\nBOVERWORK\nMr. Morrow, Senator Martin, Governor Jester, and a lot\nof other distinguished Texans I have on this train, and ladies\nand rentlemen offillsboro:\nIt is E very great pleasure to me to have the privilege of\nstopping here today. I think I owe that stop to Mr. and Mrs.\nMorrow. They tell me-that they are natives if this town, and\nthey wanted me to be sure and stop and see the good people of\nHillsboro. I am very happy to do it.\nI wish we hed time off here so I. could discuss the issues\nof the campaign with you, but it isimpossible to make long\nstops in every city in the great State of Texas. There are just\ntcc many of them, and it takes longer tc get through Texas than\nit does to get through half E dozen States that I have been\nthrough on this trip. That is, I guess, because of the size of\nTexas, and because of the enthusiasm of the population for the\nPresident of the United States. I appreciate that.\nI had to come cut and make these trips, because the only\nway that I can get the matter that is at issue in this campaign\nbefore the people is ti come cut myself and tell you just what\nthat issue is.\nYou know, 90 percent of the press in the country are\nagainst the President of the United States because he believes\nin the welfare of the people; and 90 percent of the radio com-\nmentators are against the President because they know that he\nbelieves that the Government of the United States should be a\ngovernment for the people and nit for special interests.\nThis 80th Congress I call the second worst Congress in\nthe history of the United States. I think cld Thaddeus Stevens'\nwas the worst one. This 80th Congress has done everything it\npossibly can to do things ti the pecile that will hurt you\nforever more, if they get a chance to carry cut fully what they\nwant to do.\nI can only tell theCongress what it cught ti do. Icannot\nforce the Contress to do anything. I send them Messages inform-\ning them what I think is best for the welf re of the people,\nand they are supposed to pass laws implementing the suggestions\nthat I make as President of the United States.\nInstead of doing that, they made SC many laws that were\nagainst the people of the United States, I had to use the veto\npower more than 60 times, to keep them from taking the right's\nof the people away from them.\nThat is true of the farmers, that is true of the laboring\nmen, and that has been true all along in the history of that\nCongress.\nI want you to study just exactly what they did ti you, and\nI went you to study the issues, a fter I have taken them cut to\nthe country. Then, when you 00 to the polls, vote the Democratic\nticket straight, and you will be safe from such actions as\nthat. I am sure that is. exactly what you are going to dc."
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