Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman Delivered at Kansas City, Missouri
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"NATIONAL
SPEECH DELIVERED AT KANSAS ARCHIVES AND
MISSOURI, April 19, 1937, by
SERVICE* RECORDS
SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
It is a pleasure to be here at home
tonight and I heartily appreciate your
asking me to come and say something to you
about current issues in Congress.
The controversy over the Supreme Court
is causing more newspaper and radio com-
ment than anything else now being consider-
ed. The Tories hope it is the end of
Roosevelt. The Reds hope it is an opening
wedge for the general break-down of Ameri-
can institutions. They are all hopeful
of gaining something - - they really don't
The issue isnot
know what. All the noise means nothing.
a Constitutional It is entirely political and
hastodo with National policy.
For the last four years the President
and the Democratic Part'y which controls
the Congress have been trying to meet a
situation brought about by twelve years of
rule by special privilege and by a short-
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