| The President: Compares Stalin With All Other Dictators | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1555 |
| Catalog #: | 351043 | |
| Clip Number: | 351043-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 024-424-02 | |
| Timecode: | 00:45:52 - 00:47:40 | |
| Location: | Washington, DC | |
| Year Shot: | 1951 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CEREMONIES: Awards LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Washington D.C. PERSONALITIES: Truman, Harry WAR & CONFLICT/COLD WAR: Misc. | |
| Description: | The President: Compares Stalin With All Other Dictators President Truman receives an award from The Society Of Business Magazines. In an impromptu speech he echoes the sentiments of every free man concerning dictators. MLS President Truman and the men from The Society Of Business Magazines. President Truman accepts the award MLS President Truman steps up to the microphone and delivers his speech: President Truman address the crowd and press concerning dictators: "We're fighting for freedom, for the right to worship as we please in any church we choose to attend, the right to read what we please and the right to speak what we please and the right to elect public officials of our own choosing and then to give them hell after their elected. Dictators don't believe that and there's no difference between dictators. If you study your history there hasn't been any difference in any police state that ever existed in the history of the world. They're all alike. They're all for the enslavement of the individual for the benefit of the state. We believe that the state exists for the benefit of the individual and that's what we're fighting for. There isn't any difference between Hitler and Mussolini. The talk wins of ancient Rome, kings of Sparta. Charles the first of England and Lewis the fourteenth and Stalin they're all just alike". | |
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