Radio Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman

COPY Radio Speech: For release after Broadcast Honorable Harry S. Truman, U.S.S. - Elue Network 9:55 P.M., Oct. 2, 1944 Good evening. This is Harry S. Truman, Senator from Missouri, speaking to you on time purchased by the Democratic Party - - in the interests of the American people. I'd like to talk about a friend of mine. A good friend. A man I've known for a long time - and a man with whom I hope to be even more closely associated in the four years to come. In presenting Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the Democratic candidate for President - - I am presenting him for the BIGGEST job in the world. From 1944 to 1948 the President of this country is going to have responsibilities such as few men in history have faced. He's going to have the job of leading us through the final stages of victory in this war. And this war - as our fighting men in Germany and Italy and in the Pacific can tell you - is far from being over. He's going to have the job of helping to make and to secure a world-vide and lasting peace. He's going to have the job of getting us back on the march of progress we began in 1932. We agree, then - big job. Well - I'd like to point out something about this friend of mine. He's had some experience in this big job. For one thing - we wouldn't be fighting and winning the kind of a war we are fighting, and winning - if it weren't for Roosevelt's experience in big jobs. Indeed - it is no accident that this has been the best managed war. It didn't just happen that way. The management of this war demanded and RUUNAN NARA received from this man the same kind of wisdon, foresight and determination that restored a sick and divided Americanto health and strenght and unity. Examine the record of the Democratic Administration since 1932 - and you'll see