Harry Truman

Keeping the Red Cross strong is a part of our overall job.

Let us keep this partnership of the people ready and at full strength.

I hope that your Committee and the Congress will act favorably on legislation to carry out these recommendations.

I believe that these recommendations will provide for the achievement of the greatest possible benefits for the people of California and the Nation from the multiplepurpose use of the waters to be controlled by the Dam.

I will comment on that matter when it comes before me.

I am immensely gratified over the news from Rhodes that the Representatives of Egypt and Israel have signed an armistice agreement.

I Was anxious to have that trade agreements treaty approved as soon as possible.

I commend to the consideration of my fellow citizens the reflection that our Army is a protector of those values and principles upon which our society is founded

I am just as sure as I stand here that the people are with us in our efforts to implement the Democratic platform of 1948.

If I remember correctly, I stood right here on the 19th of February 1948, and told you that you were looking at the next President.

I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Wednesday, April 6, 1949, as Army Day

What I feel tonight is not personal pride or elation; it is a deep satisfaction that our party has served its country so well that the people have endorsed it for the fifth consecutive time.

I sincerely hope that you will give me credit for going the same way.

They believed us when we said that is what we are intending to implement, and they are going to stay with us while we do it.

Thomas Jefferson first enunciated the principle that the source of power is in the people, and that the people are to be trusted in the conduct of their government.

Within several weeks I expect to have a message on health insurance and the health situation generally.

I always call him boss, because he was the Floor Leader of the Democratic Party all the 10 years that I was in the Senate, and I never did call him any other way but the man who knows where he is going, and what he is doing--and he does.

I propose to do all I can to help it along.

All the oratory in the world won't change a bad law into a good law.

We are meeting determined opposition.

I am happy to be up here talking to you once more from the same old stand.

So I have to go over to the Statler, and with Senator Barkley reiterate those same principles on which the Senator and I were elected.

Tonight, we are honoring those two great men--Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.

And they had a lot to say in editorials and columns, and newspapers.

I wish I deserved everything he said.