Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman Over the Blue Network from Washington D.C.

BUREAU OF PUBLICITY DE .OCRATIC MATIONAL Biltmore Hotel New York, N.Y. For release in A.M. papers Tuesday, October 3, 1944 Speech delivered by Senator Harry S. Truman, over the Blue Network, Monday night, October 2, 1944, 9:55-10:00 P.M. EVT, from Washington, D. C. Good evening. This is Harry S. Truman, Senator from lissouri, 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 cood 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 Prosident - I am presenting him for the BIGGEST job in the vorld. From 1944 to 1948 the President of this country is going to have rosponsibilities 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 in Italy and in the Pacific can tell you - is far from being over. He's going to have the job of helping to rake and to secure a world-wide 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 - it's a mighty big job. tiell - I'd like to point out something about this friend of mine. He's had "some" experience in big jobs. For one thing - we wouldn't be fighting and winning the lind of a war we are fighting, and winning - if it weren't for Roosevelt's experience in big jobs. Indeed - it's no accident that this has been best-nanaged war. It didn't just happen that way. The management of this war demanded and received from this man the same kind of wisdom, foresight and detormination that TRUMAN (200) NARA restored a sick and divided Amorica to health and strongth - and unity.