Draft Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman delivered at Jefferson City, Missouri
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THE HONORABLE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI:
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You can hardly estimate my feelings when I received a copy of your
resolution asking me to address a joint session of the Legislature of this
great State. I consider it a very high honor and I haven't the words to adequately
express my appreciation. You, of course, are interested in the Congress of the
United States just as I am interested in this honorable body and I am sure you
have asked me here to discuss some of the things that are of national interest.
I shall endeavor to give you my views on some of the issues now pending in the
Congress.
Missouri honored me in 1934 by electing me as one of its two United States
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Senators. I Consider that honor a great responsibility and I have to the
very best of my ability worked exceedingly hard to meet that responsibility.
I had had no legislative experience and only about two and one-half years
school
of law when I went to Washington. My whole experience in public service had been
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executive and administrative. "hen confronted with a highly responsible and
technical command in the World War I tried my best to learn all about it.
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have done the same thing with the Senate. The fact that I have been a life
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long student of world and United States history has been a very great help.
I was assigned to two of the Senate's busiest and most powerful committees--
Appropriations and Interstate Commerce. One controls the budget of the greatest
government in the world and the other has enormous influence on its transportation
and communications.
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I found out very soon after I had settled down to/ study of my duties that
the business of a good legislator is not to get things done quickly and efficiently,
as a good administrator has to do, but to prevent, if possible, the enactment
measures
into the law of the land many crazy and crackpot bills. I have found that much
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