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On the recordOctober 5, 1948
The Republican candidate was nominated over here across the river in Philadelphia, and they wrote a platform over there, and that platform is the most hypocritical document that I ever read in my life.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey

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