The President's News Conference
01/26/1949
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Now I want to give you a little advice.
The Republican Party has a long record on public power and I'm here to tell you it's all bad.
One brand-new heavy industry plant--a chemical plant at Silver Bow--has already been built, to operate on Hungry Horse electric power.
The power of the Government of the United States is in the people, and when you don't exercise that franchise which the Constitution guarant...