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...convention as Democrats." said Mitchell, "and then went home and, as Democratic Party officials, supported the opposition. Ever since Roosevelt's first term, there have been people in the South who tried to be Democrats in the state and Republicans nationally. If those characters lived in Peoria, they'd be Republicans. That's what they ought to be. We've got rid of the shotgun [the loyalty oath]; now we're working with a rifle to pick off the worst ones...
...been shifted from wartime to a peacetime basis and is sound and prosperous. For critics who argued that he had failed to keep a promise to balance the budget in a hurry, he just happened to have in his pocket some lines from a speech he made in Peoria, Ill. on Oct. 2, 1952. The key sentences: "My goal, assuming that the cold war gets no worse, is to cut federal spending to something like $60 billion within four years. Such a cut would eliminate the deficit in the budget." Reminding the reporters that his new budget, after two years...
...personally followed up on his Wilmington suggestion. Using a list of persons who had written letters to the White House, the President made ten long-distance calls and asked the recipients to start off the telephone chain reaction. The first person he talked to, Mrs. Frederick Saye, a Peoria cook, did not meet state residence requirements for voting-but she began dialing her telephone anyhow. A North Carolina man who received a presidential call said breathlessly: "I'll certainly do what the President asked me to do-if I live...
Next day, with Meek trailing along, Nixon spoke at Peoria, Champaign and Rock Island, Ill. Encouraged by what seemed to be an upswing in Meek's campaign against Democrat Paul Douglas, Nixon exhorted the G.O.P. machine to greater efforts. To a crowd of Peoria Republicans he said: "Take off the next ten days. Talk to your friends and neighbors. It will be the best days you ever spent. We've all got to work...
Decatur, machinists in Rockford, farm machinery workers in Rock Island, railroaders in Moline, miners in West Frankfort, Caterpillar workers in Peoria, tank builders in Alton, the farmers in the drought area, auto dealers, grocers and other merchants across the state . . . The figures of these men and women of Illinois whom I have seen don't lie when they say we are in economic difficulties, and we had better do something about it ... To hear the Republicans' political orators constantly berating those of us who want to look the economic facts in the face as prophets of doom...