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During a 1960 campaign stop for John F. Kennedy, former President Harry Truman speaking to roughly 700 people at a San Antonio fundraiser said "This Republican outfit doesn't know the definition of parity. All the prices have gone down, down, down. And the damn farmers still vote the Republican ticket. They ought to have their heads examined." On Eisenhower ('No Eisenhower veto ever built a dam, or helped a farmer"), on Vice President Nixon, "Tricky Dicky Nixon is cut from the same cloth-don't make any mistake about that. Nixon is against the small farmer, against small business, against labor, against public housing, against public power. Come to think of it, I don't know what the hell he is for. And that bird still has the nerve to come to Texas and ask you to vote for him. And if you do, you ought to go to hell-that's all I have to say".