The Pittsburgh Press (October 15, 1944)
Wallace pays $1, joins the NCPAC
Indianapolis, Indiana (UP) – (Oct. 14)
Vice President Henry A. Wallace joined the National Citizens Political Action Committee today, receiving a membership card from Mrs. Ruth Bennett, wife of an Auto Workers Union member to whom he paid $1.
Later, while waving the card during a speech, Mr. Wallace said:
I have just become this day a member of the Political Action Committee. This is a certificate in the great order of the common man.
The Vice President referred to “the boys in the Union League Club who have to pay $1,000 to their party,” and added:
This [the membership fee] comes a lot cheaper. And the reason it’s cheaper to become a Democrat is that there’s so many of them.