US Presidency
1948

But your interests are involved in the results of this, the action and nonaction of the 80th Congress. All of you in this good town depend either on some job or on the soil, and if you do your interests have been vitally affected by the actions of this do-nothing 80th Republican Congress. Now you are going to have a chance to remedy that on November 2nd. You are going to have a chance to make Forrest Smith Governor of Missouri, and you are going to have a very, very great chance of keeping a Missourian in the White House for another 4 years. There is one thing I want to bring home to you. I am on a crusade for the welfare of the everyday man in the United States. I am not working for special privilege. I am not working for the speculators ' lobby. I am not working for the real estate lobby.