If you will give us the mandate, if you, by your vote, will give us your approval, we will go back to that Capital City on the Potomac and we will take the programs that were started by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and carried on by Harry S. Truman, and advanced by John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and we will build a greater America.
Remarks in Peoria at the Convention of the Illinois State Federation of Labor
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It is a delight to come back to San Antonio and to see so many friendly and familiar faces.
The mood at the White House this evening is one of cautious optimism.
I call upon them to cooperate fully with the Secretaries of Commerce and State in this important work.
I hope to some day be able to come there and see you in your own land, in your own atmosphere.
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