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he has a crowd of people that he know a and that are all bound together in some way that will support him and put him forward. It's kind of fresh for a man to recommend himself to the people. Some of his friends and acquaintances ought to tell him he ought to be the candidate. That's what a political party is - a group of people that stand by each other. They work along. They get a candidate. They promote him. Gradually a policy kind of works itself out. I think the policy works itself out from the kind of people they put up. Look at the Democratic party. Look at the history of it. Its policy worked out from the kind of people that they had. You don't think that the Democratic party was just born being for the poor people, do you? That was the kind of people that got into the Democratic party. They were for the poor people. They were for making things right for people. That gradually gets to be the general policy of the party. That's the way it happens.
“The party's very important. If you don't have a party organization, you won't continue to have a two-party system of government. If you don't have that, you'll have a kind of a bedlam like they have in France - they never know who's in control. It's a government of people who don't know what they're doing. Nobody ever stand solid. Nobody ever stands
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