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THE CHAIRMAN; The Chair would like to recogniz<!
the presence of five students from Leiand Junior High
School. We are delighted to have them, also. (Applause.)
Delegate Dorothy Scott Murray.
DELEGATE D. MURRAY: This certainly is not in
opposition. I just wanted to second the motion of Delegate
Clagett. We are very happy to have you here, and I
' will see you when I get home.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bennett.
DELEGATE BENNETT: Mr. Chairman and Ladies
and Gentlemen of the Convention:
t
I have listened here this morning to a great
deal of what I consider to be tongue-in-cheek oratory
or rhetoric about the importance of officSclose to the
people and the importance of the voter exercising his
rights in choosing his officers. It is all very well and
good.
I found, incidentally, that keeping your tongue
in your cheek when you are in the midst of an argument is
a bad place to have it, so I would like to say with some