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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 22, 1948

You know, there has been so much publicity about your President not knowing where he is going or what he is doing or anything of the kind that people are surprised when they find that he does know where he is going, and he knows what he is…

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 22, 1948

If you vote in your own interest, you can't do but one thing, and that is vote the Democratic ticket straight.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 22, 1948

You know, when wheat was going up--when wheat was going up as high as $3 a bushel, bread was increased from 10 cents to 11 cents--12 cents--13 cents and 14 cents a loaf.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 22, 1948

The truth is that the profits of the fellow who skims the cream off the people are what is causing high prices.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 22, 1948

I am urging you with everything I have to vote the Democratic ticket straight November 2d, and then we can go on to build the kind of people's America that our great President Franklin D. Roosevelt had in mind when he gave us the New Deal.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 22, 1948

As President of the United States, I am worried about a lot of things--the same things that you should worry about.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 22, 1948

But if you people here in Johnstown and the millions like you, all over the United States, come out and vote on election day, we will get a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 22, 1948

I think a Presidential campaign is one of the most important elements in our democratic process.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 22, 1948

It is a terrible thing when a family has to dip into its savings to pay the grocery bill--savings which it had set aside for old age, to educate the children, or for the down payment on a home.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 22, 1948

During this past summer, up to August 31, officers and directors of the country's largest corporations contributed immense sums to the Republican election campaign funds.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 21, 1948

This order shall take effect as to the several positions as of the first pay period commencing after the date hereof.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 20, 1948

That on and after October 21, 1948, the conditions specified in sections 9(b) and 1(e) of the aforementioned Title 17 of the United States Code will exist and will be fulfilled in respect of the citizens of the Republic of the Philippines

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