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Dick Durbin: “Isn't it true that Harry Truman, a Democratic Senator from Missouri, initiated this investigation into what he called…”

On the recordMarch 2, 2005
Isn't it true that Harry Truman, a Democratic Senator from Missouri, initiated this investigation into what he called profiteering during the war at the expense of soldiers and taxpayers, and was literally examining the practices of a Democratic President, Franklin Roosevelt, with that commission, so that here he was, a Democrat, saying he had a higher responsibility to the taxpayers and soldiers. He was going to investigate the activities of the War Department under a Democratic President.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing an amendment modeled after the Truman Commission during Senate debate.

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