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    "ocrText": "IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nTROMAN\nREAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT\nNATIONAL\nDAVIS, OKLAHOMA\nARCHIVES AND\nDEPARTMENT\nRECORDS\nSEPTEMBER 28, 1948, 1.08 PM CST\nSERVICE\"\nGovernor, I certainly thank you for the splendid introduction\nand this splendid reception in your home County. I understand that\nyou aro somewhat in the Heroford business. They tell me this is Hereford\nheaven.\nYou follows in Oklahoma cortainly do give a fellow a welcome.\nI was in Ardmore a few minutes ago, and there must have been 50 thousand\npeople in that plaza out in front of the Mothodist church, and I\nappreciated it more than I can tell you; but it looks to me like every-\nbody in the County is here at Davis.\nYou are vitally interested in this Presidential campaign. Your\ninterests are atstake, as a result of the policies of the two Parties.\nThe Republicans\nalways have been for special interests. The\nDomocratic Party is the Party of tho people. I have been going up and\ndown this country from one and to the other myself, personally explaining\nwhat those issues are, because you have a right to know what those issues\nare, and you have a right to be told by the people who understand those\nissues just what they are.\nThe Republicans are using a lot of propaganda that misrepresents\nthe facts at every turn in the road so far as they possibly can, because\nthey want to fool you. I don't think you are going to be fooled. I\nthink you are going to turn out on election day and show those Republicans\njust exactly. where this country stands when the public interest is at\nstake.\nYou can take my record to go on, you don't have to take any\npromises from me -- you know what I have done. I am running on the\nrecord, and I am trying to continue that record.\nThe Republicans have got to run on the record of that Republican\n80th Congress, and they can't get out of it no matter how much propaganda\nthey put out.\nI wish I had plenty of time here to go into the fundamental\nissues in this campaign, and take them one by one and explain them to\nyou, but it would take all the rest of the day; but you know, I have got\nto go to 40 places in Oklahoma yet, and I want to see as many Oklahomans\nas I possibly can.\nNow, do this one thing for me, will you? On election day, get\nup early, go down to the polls, and put in that ticket with the Democratic\nticket voted straight from President to Constable, and the country will\nbe safe.\nI certainly appreciate the turnout. I have certainly appreciated\nthese young people coming out to take a look at the President. I know\nthat for years to come you will romember the visit of your Governor\nand the President of the United States to your good town of Davis; and it\nmakes me happy to see these uniformed bodies from the schools, and these\nlittle girls and little boys -- thousands of them -- for coming out to\nsee what their President looks like. They have got a right to know --\nthey have got to know what he is thinking about. Most of them can\nanalyze the facts and the issues, and it will be good for the country in\nthe next generation, because I am looking forward,in the noxt generation,\nto the greatest age in history.\nI wish I were 14 instead of 64. I would like to see that age,\nand S00 it come about; and you will soe it.\nNow, use your judgment, get all the education you can, and when\nyou grow up, make this country continue to be safe for the people."
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