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wrong with as I've told you time and again if a Democratic convention acts on the nomination

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of the candidate and you can't be a candidate until the convention acts and you find a little

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more about that my statement there I think that's all the comment I have tonight

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you have any hopes for the upcoming summit meeting in light of recent events I have

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hopes of course that some good will come out of it for the peace of the world that's what I

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hope and pray for all the time you feel the American spy plane into the cold will have any

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you find a statement on that in the speech so we're not going to be filming your speech I

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don't think would you say just something about a bar for our film well they hear is the situation

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is substantially what's in the speech here the American government has always been known for

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its honesty and integrity in all its dealings and that's the way it's looked upon by all the

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members of the free world and the countries in South America and I'm very very sorry that the

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situation has developed that is likely to undermine that confidence that's the statement in the

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are you glad that we stood up to push up now in this thing saying that we need this intelligence

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information and we're at I have to send more planes that I didn't know we've done that if we

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have it's a good thing I mean an incumbent senator I was an incumbent senator and I was

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the vice president there have been some company on the wires and I have to do a little thinking

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about it there there has been one or two I think in the early days usually the vice president

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succeeded to the presidency in the early earliest of the early days and a great many of the

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presidents have been senators but I can't give you a specific interest instance but not in modern

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times any what the bag remember of the possibility of the United States resuming

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underground nuclear testing well I tell you I think the best thing on that is to consult

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me I wonder if you had any comment on the possibility of the United States resuming

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underground nuclear test I sincerely hope they will I've never been in favor of stopping the

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that the approach that we should and are trying to make is to use that tremendous power for the

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welfare of the country in civilian use and not for the murder of the world and you can't find out

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how to do that unless you experiment with it and I think you find that some of the great greatest

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of the scientists are in that same frame of mind suppose we'd stopped experimenting with the

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electric light after Edison found a little film bulb and said the danger to the world

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could be used would you have these up here suppose we just stopped with the Ford Model

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T without experimenting on how the other cars are made be made it's a matter of common sense

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because this is the greatest release of power in the history of the world and it can be used and

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will be used for the welfare and benefit of mankind remember the old man and gives these Nobel

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prizes he found TNT and dynamite and he thought he destroyed the world and he's

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conscious with the Lord he set up these these programs but TNT and dynamite have been used

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for peaceful purposes and that's what happened Tom Kennedy and all that.

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Mr. Trillman back to domestic politics Senator Timington said the other day he discussed the

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possibility of the presidential nomination with you. Yes he had. Did you care to tell us about it?

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I'll tell you about it when I raise this statement. I was hoping you'd ask that question.

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I'm glad you brought it up.

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Let's have a press conference and have a statement.

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Alright, alright you fellas have got all you want.

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Are we all set?

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I'm going to read the statement so you can have it.

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Are you a cop sir?

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Big pardon?

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You got a copy for all of you but I'm going to read it first. You're not going to run out on me.

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I told you fella.

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We'll do a thing like that.

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I just want to be sure we got nothing to say.

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Well there it is. It's about five paragraphs.

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In the war period I investigated the Emerson Electric Company of St. Louis

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of which Mr. Sonnington was the president.

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The Emerson Electric Company was making warheads for the United States government.

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I gave the organization a complete and thorough investigation at the request of the president and the people in St. Louis.

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And I found nothing wrong with his work for the government in the war effort.

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I gave him a clean bill of health.

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Later on after I became president I asked him to liquidate the surface property which was left over from the second world war.

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There was 40 billion dollars worth of that property.

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Senator Sonnington liquidated it without one breath of scandal and liquidated it in the interest of the United States government.

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Later I asked him to act as liquidating agent for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

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Which he carried out with entire satisfaction to all concerned.

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Then I met Secretary for Air in the organization of the Defense Department in which position he did an outstanding performance.

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In 1952 he told me in 1952 that he expected to run for United States Senate from Missouri in the primary.

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And I told him I had agreed to support another man.

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He ran and was nominated and I supported him for the United States Senator after he was nominated.

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He carried the state of Missouri by a very large majority.

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And in 1958 he was re-elected by the largest majority by which any senator ever carried Missouri.

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And I carried myself twice by a large majority.

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And it's interesting.

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Eight years in the Senate and about oh between four and six years in the executive branch of the government.

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I think he's the best qualified man in the picture today.

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And that's the reason I want to support him.

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And here's statements for all of you.

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There's one there for each one of you.

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You see why I didn't want to do it?

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Is this in relation to the other candidates?

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No I do not intend to do that because one of those candidates may be nominated.

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And I want all of us to support him.

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And I'm not going to get in any tangles.

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Who will of course support any other candidate?

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I'll support the candidates nominated.

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I didn't say any other candidate because any other candidate won't be nominated.

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Mr. Truman have you talked with Mayor Daley and Colonel Harvey about and urging them to support?

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I have not. I have not.

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I probably will.

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Well Mr. Truman I'm a boss newspaper man.

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I assume from what you told this gentleman that you would not answer a question of mine.

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This fellow I'm supporting isn't my home state.

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Oh I see.

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Don't you see?

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Is there any one of the current front runners Mr. Truman who you would not support if you were not?

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None that I've never met any of them that I wouldn't support.

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What about the feeling among all the pundits Mr. Truman that because we're in West Virginia

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Mr. Kennedy has a stranglehold in the nomination right now.

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Is that what you think he could be nominated with 231 votes?

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Don't ask me.

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Well all right I'm asking you to understand that it takes the majority of the delegates to the Democratic Convention to nominate him in.

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Well that's all there is to it.

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You don't feel then that he has to.

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I don't think anybody's got a stranglehold on it.

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No and you can't put a stranglehold on a Democratic Convention I can tell you that.

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It's been tried by experts.

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How many votes can Simon can go in with you know?

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I don't know.

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I haven't been making any votes in there for any of them.

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What would be the five objections Mr. Kennedy?

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I don't have any objections.

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Why are you asking me that question?

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You want me to go into religious issues?

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I'm not going to do it.

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You think the religious issue is dense?

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I hope it is.

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It hasn't been assumed in the first place.

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Do you think the results that weren't out before the West Virginia results took it out?

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I hope so.

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Do you think they took it out?

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I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine.

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I say I hope they took it out.

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I know when it's in there in the first place.

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I'm starting to think you are knowing more about it.

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Oh well you're kind.

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You give me too much credit.

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You sharp fellas know as much about these things as I do only you just haven't had my experience on the inside.

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You're assuming you'll be conferring with Mayor Daley and Colonel Harvey.

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Will you be doing that today sir?

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Well I don't know.

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I always confer with Mayor Daley and Colonel Harvey and any other Democratic politician in high place whenever I'm in town.

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I've done that ever since I've been coming here.

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How about that next year in New York?

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No we did not.

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The statement wasn't released until I got here.

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I saw the mayor.

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