Obama cite Truman!

Pour son discours devant les travailleurs de Détroit.

"President Obama quoted from Harry Truman’s 1948 Labor Day speech, a rousing campaign speech delivered, like Obama’s speech today, in Detroit and aimed a rallying labor around an embattled president.

So who gets credit for linking Harry with Barack? Carl Levin, Michigan’s senior senator, says he gave a copy of the speech to President Obama today aboard Air Force One.

"Here's a give-em-hell kind of speech from Harry Truman," Levin said he told Obama. Levin told a White House pool reporter that he thought Obama's speech today was in that spirit.

Rep. Sandy Levin, Carl’s brother, added, “The fact he referred to Harry Truman speaks for itself."

Here’s the Truman section of Obama’s speech:

“You know, I was on the plane flying over here, and Carl Levin was with me, and he showed me a speech that Harry Truman had given on Labor Day 63 years ago, right here in Detroit -- 63 years ago. And just to show that things haven't changed much, he talked about how Americans had voted in some folks into Congress who weren’t very friendly to labor. And he pointed out that some working folks and even some union members voted these folks in. And now they were learning their lesson. And he pointed out that -- and I'm quoting here – ‘the gains of labor were not accomplished at the expense of the rest of the nation. Labor’s gains contributed to the nation’s general prosperity.’

“What was true back in 1948 is true in 2011. When working families are doing well, when they're getting a decent wage and they're getting decent benefits, that means they're good customers for businesses. That means they can buy the cars that you build. That means that you can buy the food from the farmers. That means you can buy from Silicon Valley. You are creating prosperity when you share in prosperity.”"

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