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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Jun 10, 1947

We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Jun 10, 1947

Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Jun 8, 1947

Accordingly, pursuant to the said section 11 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended, I hereby modify the said proclamation of September 5, 1939

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Jun 8, 1947

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby find and declare, on the basis of the investigation and report of the United States Tariff Commission, that changed circumstances require the…

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Jun 8, 1947

This proclamation shall become effective on the fifth day after the date of its signature

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Jun 6, 1947

The only security for the United States, or for any other nation, when the alternative to peace is death and destruction, lies in the abolition of war.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Jun 6, 1947

Japan struck at Pearl Harbor because she thought the United States was too weak to fight back.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Jun 6, 1947

Unpreparedness on the part of his opponents precipitated his decision to march into Poland in 1939.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Jun 6, 1947

Our obligation, as citizens of the strongest nation in the world, is to lead the peoples of the earth toward the goal of lasting peace.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Jun 6, 1947

When the peoples of the world shall accept the principle that it is the will of God that there be peace--there will be peace.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Jun 4, 1947

The Kansas City vote fraud investigation should be carried through to its logical conclusion.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Jun 4, 1947

It will have some effect of that sort, but I don't think it is a dangerous effect.

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