Draft speech of Senator Harry S. Truman, Democratic Candidate for Vice President, at Minneapolis, Minnesota

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SPEECH - SENATOR HARRY STRUMAN For AM RELEASE 1595 WESTERN UNION AT OCTOBEN 231944 PRESS MESSAGE A. N. WILLIAMS PRESIDENT FIRST PARAT OF ST.PAUL SPEECH MR.CHAIRMAN,LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I HOPE YOU HEARD THE PRESIDENT / THE MAN THE REPUBLICANS WOULD HAVE YOU THINK IS A TIRED OLD MAN / WHEN HE TOLD YOU IN STIRRING AND VIGOROUS WORDS LAST SATURDAY NIGHT ABOUT HIS PROGRAM TO WIN XX THE WAR AND THEN TO SECURE THE PEACE.THE PEACE WE FOUGHT FOR IN THE LAST WAR XNZUENX The Peace XK AND THAT HARDING AND THE REPUBLICAN REACTIONARIES LOST IN THE TWENTIES. We must not THAT MUST NOT HAPPEN AGAIN.THAT It WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN IF YOU REELECT FRANKL IN DELANO ROOSEVELT,PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THERE IS NO DOUBT ABOUT HIS ATTITUDE.THERE NEVER HAS BEEN^DOUBT. FOR YEARS HE HAS FOUGHT TO BLOCK THE AGGRESSORS WHO WANTED TO RULE THE WORLD AND DESTROY OUR LIBERTIES:-/YEARS DURING WHICH HE MET AND OVERCAME THE OBSTRUCTION$ STS and 9F THE ISOLATIONISTS, MOST OF THEM WERE REPUBLICANS. whom TRIMAN AND is RECORDS, V.S. GOVER?