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    "ocrText": "IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nREAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE\nPRESIDENT AT PAULS VALLEY\nSECURITY\nOKLAHOMA, SEPTEMBER 28, 1948,\n1:45 P. M., c.s.t.\nGovernor Turner, and the Citizens of Pauls Valley: I didn't\nknow Pauls Valley had this many people in it. I have seen big\ncrowds and I have been received by big crowds all over the United\nStates, but I'll tell you -- this is one to write home about. Thank\nyou very much for coming out.\nYou know, it certainly is good to be in a place where you have\nfriends, in a county represented by one of the best men who ever\ncame to Congress -- Mike Monroney. You know, it was my privilege\nto present Mike with a medal which said he was the best Member of the\nHouse of Representatives -- and I never did anything that pleased\nme more in my life than when I presented him that medal. He earned\nit and he deserved it, and I know you are going to send him back to\nCongress with the biggest majority he's ever had.\nAnd I want you to send Bob Kerr to the Senate, in place of that\nold man who has been misrepresenting you for the last six years.\nBob is my friend and Bob knows the Democratic principles, and he\nlives up to them. You know him a little better than I do because he\nserved you as Governor.\nI've had a most pleasant time in this State. Your Governor met\nme last night at Sam Rayburn's house down at Bonham, Texas. - the\nGovernor and Mrs. Turner and Bob Kerr -- and we had the grandest time\nyou ever heard about at Sam's house. Sam said he was going to have a\nlittle reception. Sam's little reception turned out to be about\nthree or four thousand people, after we had already spoken to three\nor four times that many out at the baseball park.\nThe Washita Valley here is one of the richest and most fertile\nvalleys in the country, so I'm told. I don't want you to tell any\nof\nthese tall corn boys in Iowa, but they tell me you r aise more corn\nhere to an acre than in Iowa. I don't know whether it is so or not.\nI wish somebody would confirm it. Is it true?\nThat makes it better. The gentleman here says it's Democratic\ncorn. I don't know whether that's liquid or in the ear.\nOklahoma ought to be exceedingly proud of the contribution that\nit made to the winning of the last war. I was familiar with your\ndivisions that served in World War I and in World War II. Oklahoma\ncertainly did its share in every way possible -- and that, you know,\nis much to your credit.\nAs I came across this country things certainly looked good.\nThey looked prosperous. You know what I'm trying to do ? I'm trying\nto keep that prosperity going. I'm trying to keep the clock going\nforward and not backwards. Look at some of the things that have been\nhappening in connection with things with which you are concerned right\nhere.\nYou have been menaced for years with semi-annual floods that\nused to cover most of your city. We are engaged now in an eleven\nmillion dollar project of controlling floods from the Washita water-\nshed to hold water on the uplands through soil conservation and\nthrough special water holders to keep the floods back.\nYou are concerned that we must continue the farm price program.\nYou want a price support program. You want to continue your rapid\ngrowth in the development of farm and mineral resources. The probléms\nare important to you, and I am sure you want people in office who will\nsee that they are taken care of\nNow, the Democratic record on these issues which face you is\nclear. You know of that Federal help we gave to you in controlling\nthe floods and in helping you with soil conservation. The Republicans\nin this last Congress tried to cut that out."
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